Human animals

while designing a poster, 
i have so much fun making collages of human animals.

Pancakes

drawing 29 - no explanation needed

happy walking family

I have some catch up to do - this week i didn't manage to post my sketches on the blog.
But i'm still on my way to 365 sketches of tiny happy moments. 

#28: on a relaxing and so nice weekend with my family, we went for a walk along the sea (canal) side. there was so much wind blowing, we had fun finding ways to walk faster against the wind. 

friday breakfast talks

having breakfast on a lazy day, it's one of my favorite things ever.
especially in this coffee house where the coffee is named 'bunny' and served in a cup-with-bird.

friday happy moment / drawing 27

wool and big projects

on Thursday i took a day off, visited my brave friend and 

had serious talks about wool, yarn and knitting needles.

she's a beginner in knitting and already planning to make her own waistcoat. 

or sweater. or huge blanket. 

i enjoyed it very much.

drawing 26

Pooring rain / wet shoes

Best moment of wednesday:
arriving at home, changing into dry warm clothes. 

(Sketch 25 of my 365-sketches-of-happy-daily-moments)

11.2: special birth-day..

.. of one of the sweetest friends i have.

the big dinner was my tuesday happy-moment.

of course, she does look much much better than the drawing

(and i believe she has nicer bathing suits) but it was just practice,

since i never drew her portrait before.

so i think this proves the two of us need much more coffee-sketching-wednesdays..

(drawing 24/365)

family friends

it is almost becoming a monday night tradition,

together with a friend we have dinner and watch some television show.

but what i like most, are our conversations in between, about all kinds of things. 

then i always remember - it's so nice to have close friends living close to you, 

they're my family in the city.

#23

Sunday -

# 22
               an entire together-day.

clear clouds

i like staring at clouds - light ones, dark ones, animal ones or just boring ones (never boring though, a cloud).

on saturday, there was a bright cloud hiding behind a lot of buildings. 

unfortunately, i didn't succeed in capturing it in a drawing. 

possibly clouds will be a next drawing project. or maybe mountains.

tiny happy drawing n°21

Musical friday

on friday there was a little festival at work, 
which meant a lot of work and above all a nice, cosy atmosphere.
i especially enjoyed the show of this band.
(tiny happy drawing #20)

Thursday with a kitten (#19)

on our thursday night dinner at a friend's place, 

the new kitten was the center of attention (and he liked it). 

I like the way cats crawl into your arms and put their little legs on the arm, 

they almost look like little humans.

Lovely vegetables (#18)

Since this week, we subscribed on a biological vegetable package: 

every other week we get fresh and seasonal vegetables from a biological farm.

it's always a surprise what vegetables are in the package

- and you're forced to experience with rare vegetables or with too many of the same kind (a lot of beetroot? red cabbage?). 

i love it! 

so as you can imagine, i got excited on wednesday, 

even more since there was a vegetable i never tasted/saw before: aardpeer (translated: Jerusalem artichoke. Strange).

they looked like funny limpy heads (and they have hair). 

we prepared mashed potatoes with this vegetable and a chicken stew. delicious.

tuesday / series (#17)

there's not much i like more than finishing a busy evening on the couch, 
reading a book. or, in this case, watching a series.
a boring sketch - but i'm practicing perspectives (and i know, this one is not that correct…)

sun sun sun

i like the weather these days. a bit cold with blue skies (and sometimes even real sun).
on monday, while bicycling with the sun in my eyes, i even smelled a bit of spring.

catching up

with some wine on a terrace (with sea view) and lots of meat for dinner
i catched up with a friend who i had not seen for ages.
it made me happy. 
(but it didn't inspire me for a sensational drawing. just wine)

(tiny happy drawing 15)

de ideeënfontein (n°14)

Yesterday, i was stressing about a poster-design-deadline.
(it's a standard pattern)
i have no idea that makes sense, i'm getting nervous and 'blocked'.
then i start to read some magazines for inspiration 
(too many good designs i wish i had made) 
i take some paint and start doing something. but it stays quiet on the idea-side.
but while trying and tinkering (i just discovered this word - prutsen),
a little idea appears.
and then i start painting, cutting papers, taking pictures while standing on a chair,
i don't wash my brushes (bad habit), i leave paper all over the place, i run to the shop for a good background paper, i'm making a horrible mess.
but out of all this, a poster appears.
hurray. 
i think it was my happiest moment yesterday, cutting letters out of paper.

just an ordinary friday night,

i wish.

happy drawing n° 13, 
of a little (decadent) celebratory sauna evening.

wish we had a jacuzzi at home,
or even a spacious bath would be sufficient :).

Horses in the morning

Thursday morning (day 12), on the train ride to work. 
The view outside was so beautiful:
a bit of fog, wintery trees and some horses. 
Wow. A fairytale start of the day.