Very early christmas greetings

Some christmas cards I made last december. Didn't get round to uploading them, so consider them a very early greeting for this year.

My dear

May he rest in peace, chase lots of birds and eat the best heavenly tomatosauce. I will miss you.

Calm

... or "whatever you see in this".
Love how the bloody big floating rock turned out though.

The Boxer

"In the clearing stands a boxer and a fighter by his trade
And he carries the reminder of every glove that laid him down
And cut him till he cried out in his anger and his shame
'I am leaving I am leaving,' but the fighter still remains"
~ Simon and Garfunkel 
(or, as I know it:  Mumford and Sons' cover)

New year new chances

So, I've been gone for a bit, traveling and furiously not drawing... But, new year, new chances on the art-side! Kicking off with some nonsensical portrait, just because I can :)

Mega-Cow

Yup, I finished my monster-drawing of a cow for my niece :). She hasn't come to pick it up yet, so I'm really hoping she'll still like it in real life (she's seen some pictures).
It's still really big, 75 by 155 cm, and dominating our dining table.

Two Pitchers (as exciting as it sounds)

Oh my god, two pitchers! Yeah, the subject is not terribly exciting, but here you can see what we did this week at the pre-pre-pre-artpreschoolprecourse (now I'm sure there are too many pre's). First, blind sketching, which means not looking at your paper (it doens't mean drawing blindfolded, as I thought) with charcoal and secondly painting the same still-live with acrylics. This time while looking.
I don't think still-lives will be my next favorite subjects.







 Meanwhile, a little update: it's my birthday today! I'm 18 now! :)

Eye Inception

Some weeks ago I enrolled in a Pre-Art Academy Preparation Course. That are too many pre's, aren't it? Anyway, the first thing they made us do was draw a scene from mind. Or rather our perception of a scene. The only thing that would come to my mind was the hotel/gravity shift scene from Inception (awesome movie, btw.) which is the charcoal drawing on the back.
A lesson later, we had to put a part of our faces on top of our previous drawing. Hence the monstrous eye. The eye is: graphite pencil, some white chalk, and acrylic paint in white and blue.
Oh, and this painting is LARGE in real life. About a good two meters high and one and a half meters wide. That's big. Trust me.

Pre-Kiwi: Monks

It's funny how small, unthoughtful sketches can grow into something quite big. I can't be sure where the exact idea came from, but I know the English class definitely wasn't the inspiration. Anyhow, this is the first full-size acrylics painting I made. And I must say, I'm still quite proud of it.

Acrylic paint on paper