Flow here I go......

Het komt vast door het zonnetje,
ik ben zo actief, zo in de flow,
gisteren 7 kleine werkjes gemaakt en nu ben ik alweer bezig. Ik kan gewoon niet stoppen, zit barstensvol ideetjes en heb er gewoon zin. Nog steeds in pyjama(nu al voor de derde dag op een rij) freubel ik mij een weg door mijn inspiratie heen. NU is vorige week begonnen en is er nog steeds....voel me vrij en fris en  en en en....
Zie hier het resultaat, ik ga er verder geen woorden meer aan vuil maken ;-)

En nu op de werktafel om vandaag afgemaakt te worden...ik heb er zin in!!!!!!.~

Spread your wings and prepare to fly

"Maiden" by Bibje

"Spread your wings..." by Bibje

In progress....








Had a quiet weekend. The kids were with their dad. I had every opportunity to paint, and so I did! I finnished the "Maiden" and "Spread your wings" and started to paint on another very old painting.
I am re-painting a lot of my older works wich did not sell and which I think are not quite that good.They were a bit bland. Most of that work is on 220/300 grams aquarell paper. They are challenging because they are already painted on. I use these images for the next painting, at least that is what I intent to do. The latest painting I used and painted over and than washed it off again and painted it over...and now it looks sort of familiar but has changed a lot. Mabey I wash it all of again,or part of it, because I am not overly content with it. The beauty is that with all the washing it gets a worn look. I like that. I love the look of worn, faded, old and blurred. And still show the beauty ....

And again I have blurry pictures...I will replace them when I have made new 'non-blurry' ones. But for now, they will do to satisfy the curiosity :-)

Question 1

Following is the very first Question I wil answer.
It's not the first time I am doing this, I remeber writing down my dreams and goals about 5 years back in time. Just before I went back to be a teacher again after a long period of being quenched. I had a coach and she was good. She let me talk and then asked Questions. Most of the time my thoughts got organised because of that. Except on one point. I wanted to be an artist, but being a teacher instead she advised me to keep my painting and writing as a hobby and focus on what I studied for. She was really persistant in that and I gave way to her arguments. I could be creative as a history teacher as well I lied to myself. And of course she would be right in saying that creativity would vanish when it became something I had to do in order to make a living. I had heared that many times before. Eventhough I was not really convinced I went back to teaching.... I still maintained 6 months on the job, then my dad became seriously ill and I got so overwrought I had to stay at home. Nearly a year later my dad died and I made him a promisse to pursue MY dreams. That was 3 years ago.

So here I am, doing just that what I promissed him and above all myself! Asking myself questions on the how's and when's and what's and why's of my dreams.Feeling dizzy all the time because of the many dreams I have and having to narrow them down to a few so I can concentrate on "The Biz" instead of the "What would be my dreamiest dream". Now I don't have to dream anymore, I can start building.

The First Question asks the following:
-In your wildest dreams, what does your creative biz look like? Are you working fulltime? Part time? What does your everyday schedule look like?

In my WILDEST dreams I have a little house-like studio in which I do all my creating, it's light and bright there. Prefferably in a green green flowery garden,where I can walk in and where nature is at its best. I will paint outside in the garden in summer and inside in the winter,where I will have an nice fire burning.I paint the day away, and I will write and make objects, design al sorts of things. Create like I never did before.
I would also give workshops, having High Tea(Thanks Daphne for that lovely idea) or go out on a picknick and paint on a pretty day here in the dunes or on the beach.
My workshedule is something I can't define yet,because of my kids. Being a single mom I have to devide my attention between work and homemaking. I will try a shedule and see what works best. That will be one of my goals for the upcoming month.

This is the dream I am building.I have been astray for a while and thought I wanted something completely different. But in the end I always came back to this......not just in my dreams but also when I was doing research for that other dream. Seems a bit silly right? But then again....when the heart whispers it is not always easy to hear it right the first time.....
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Wensenlijstje / Wishlist

Een deel van mijn bijdrage op http://www.mamsatwork.nl/.

Ik ben de afgelopen weken bezig geweest mijn Bib-art site te vullen met nieuw werk. Zo heb ik nieuwe kinderschilderijtjes geplaatst(zie boven)en heb ik de serie 'Genesis' op de site gezet. Tegenwoordig wordt er dan gelijk een berichtje op de facebook en twitter gezet dus heb ik veel meer bezoekers gehad op mijn site. De vorige maand bijna 500 en nu zit ik al op de 367...ik wil voor de duizend gaan!

Wat ik ook wil is een geheel nieuwe website, een echte waarin blog, webwinkel,virtuele gallerie samen gaan. Geen idee waar ik beginnen moet en geen idee hoe het eruit moet gaan zien maar ik laat het idee nu rijpen in mijn hart. En ga op zoek naar info.....

Verder heb ik wilde wensen in gebed gebracht;,

-een prentenboek met mijn kinderschilderijtjes.

-mijn mooiste schilderijen als vloerkleed (de hartenserie)

lijkt me echt geweldig om een Bib op de vloer te zien.

-skins voor de laptop en mobieltjes (hartenserie)

-een ansichtkaartenserie.

-een serie ruimtelijke werken.

Het zijn zomaar wat ideetjes, die ik de komende maanden ga uitzoeken en uitproberen. In de tussentijd blijf ik mijn Bib-art promoten. 1000 bezoekers deze maand.......en dan elke maand een verdubbeling. Ik ga ervoor!!!!!!

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This is a part of my contribution to the mamsatwork site.

I spend the last few weeks putting new works on my Bib-art site. I have added childrens-paintings and my Genesis series to the site. Since we have the feature of connecting with twitter and facebook on the account, I had al lot more visitors on my site. Last month I had 500 visitors from all over the world. now I have had already 376 visitors. This month I want to reach the thousand!

I also want a complete new website with the possibillity to blog about, sell and expose my works, all in one.i don't have a clou where to start and how3 it should look like, but the thought is ripening in my heart. I will keep looking for info though ;-)

I also have put some wild ideas in my prayers lately;

- a picurebook with all my childrenspaintings.

-my lovely hearth paintings as a carpet, like a persian. All lush and soft.

-skins for laptops and cellphones, from the same series of paintings.

- A series of postcards.

- sculptural works.

These are just some of the ideas I will try to work out over the next months. In the meantime I'll go on with my Bib-art promotion. A thousand visitors this month is my goal....and then doubling each month. I go for it!!!

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~Illustration on friday~

Illustrations by Bibje "sea sea swallow me" 1,2,3.