a new phase

hi,
it's me again. I have started a new phase in my creative live: Illustration! please visit my new website gemmadriessen.com I have worked really hard on my new website and it looks really good in my opinion :) . I am currently open for commissioned work so if you are looking for someone to make you a birth announcement card, a logo, a drawing of a whale riding a motor bike because you are really into that for some reason, or whatever please don't hesitate to contact me (see contact page on my site) :) I am also starting a new blog about drawing and illustration over there. :)

Danse Serpentine

Last week in my art history class at school our teacher showed us this video. It shows Loïe Fuller performing the Danse Serpentine. The thing that I think to be so awesome and inspiring about it is that this was filmed with an analogue camera in 1896 and afterwards the individual pieces of film where painted. And they made her dress shifting colors. It is just so awesome that they did these things in 1896. I'd love to do something like this once, If I only had a film camera and and a lot of spare time...

this idea stuck in my head this entire week so I thought lets share it with you guys

double exposures

 

I love double exposure photos. I'd really love to try this with film once, but for now digital editing is good enough. These photos are from a little photo shoot with Tim, and the overlays from several different occations, the first overlay is a scanned dia from my grand-aunt, the second is from a trip with Tim last summer, the third is just a little flower in the grass, the forth is from my trip with Tim to Brussels, and the fifth is our wood storage in the garden.
I had been experimenting with buildings as overlay this afternoon. And I made them all black and white. I have made some before, but those where in color and had several overlays, instant of one. If you like this, take a look at the tutorial I wrote about double exposure (for picmonkey). It is not that hard and it has great results.

into the woods

in the woods, is a camping called buitenkunst, and I wanted to update you some more about my adventures there. because It was such a inspiring week. At our first day we went to a workshop called "euvre in een ochtend" which means something like your entire collection of life works in one morning. we started in the first period in our lives and had to paint/draw 5 little works and after that we looked at each others works, stole ideas, and started our next period. and after 5 periods our 'lifework' was completed. This is my favorite one:

that afternoon we went to a workshop called 'scratching scratching'. In contrast with that morning we only had 10 by 10 cm to work on for two ours. we only had to scratch, just two ours scratching only. It was weird at the start. but at the end it was fun to see, everybody scratches different. here is mine and some others:

 

buitenkunst: the paintings

At buitenkunst I did two painting workshops.
the first one was called action painting, in the morning we got a picture, mine was a bird and we had to paint it. In the afternoon we did the actual action painting, however I didn't really like the results It was fun. We had to smash and splash paint and paint full of action. For the square one I used some kind of pinecone to paint. ow and yes the bird is supposed to be upside down. here are the results:

The other workshop was called 'there is something happened' the assignment was to make a landscape where is a was some kind of atmosphere that there was something happened, but you could not see what. like two shoes in the middle of a quiet wood. I'm actually a little proud of these. here are my results:

inspirational artists

this two artist have so incredible work, I love it

Leonid Afremov: