Happy Holidays Card

Happy Holiday or Christmas Fine Art Card

The botanical drawings are detailed too.

This drawing communicates wintry nature greetings with good intentions to your beloved ones, family-members, friends, colleagues and strangers in nations around the world, during Christmas, New-Year’s Day, Chinese New Year, Thanksgiving and Hanukkah.

It is drawn without any digital assistance: it is an authentic ‘free hand’ drawing of what we see around us during the winter months.

In times in which we increasingly use SMS, Email and digital postcards, receiving an art-card feels like a little gift. Quality matters. Beauty matters!

Paula

Available at mindfuldrawing@gmail.com.

We can handle small and large orders.

Song Thrush (Turdus philomelos)

Song Thrush, coloured and graphite pencils, copyright Paula Kuitenbrouwer

We have a Song Thrush in our garden.

It always emerges from the border near an European Rowan (which berries it eats).

They are beautiful and shy.

Paula

Paula Kuitenbrouwer sells exquisite fine art cards of her drawings as well as reproductions, and of some drawings smaller business-, gift- or mummy-cards. See Purchase in the header for what is available as well as the price list. In case you like to commission Paula, contact her at mindfuldrawing@gmail.com

Apple Picking

 Apple sketch with coloured pencils. Copyright Paula Kuitenbrouwer, photo Thomas Kluck

Yesterday there were many apples scattered on the lawn.

It was time to collect them and we had to jump to the highest branches to get the last ones.

Apple

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Happy Apple Harvesting Time!

Paula Kuitenbrouwer

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Paula Kuitenbrouwer sells exquisite fine art cards of her drawings as well as reproductions, and of some drawings smaller business-, gift- or mummy-cards. See Purchase in the header for what is available as well as the price list. In case you like to commission Paula, contact her at mindfuldrawing@gmail.com

Euphorbia pulcherrima (or Christmas Star)

Pointsettia or Euphorbia pulcherrima, copyright Paula Kuitenbrouwer, photo Thomas Kluck

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For Wassily Kandinsky the colour red was alive, restless, confidently striving towards a goal, glowing, ‘manly maturity’. Light warm red was strength, energy, and joy. Vermilion was glowing passion and sure strength. Light cold red was youthful, pure joy, and young. Who doesn’t love red?

Paula

Paula Kuitenbrouwer sells exquisite fine art cards of her drawings as well as reproductions, and of some drawings smaller business-, gift- or mummy-cards. See Purchase in the header for what is available as well as the price list. In case you like to commission Paula, contact her at mindfuldrawing@gmail.com
She is looking forward to hear from you.

Holly (Ilex aquifolium)

 Holly (Ilex aquifolium), coloured pencils, Paula Kuitenbrouwer, photo Thomas Kluck

The phrase ‘Happy Holidays’ is often used as a generic cover-all greeting that includes Christmas, New Year’s Day, Chinese New Year, Thanksgivings, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa.

Holly is an evergreen tree that is native to most of the central and southern parts of Europe and grows in North America as well. Holly is one of the most striking features in winter gardens. This branch, that I’ve drawn, comes from our garden.

Holly branches make wonderful centrepieces or winter decorations for any table top, however, be careful with children: the berries are very toxic.

Paula

Paula Kuitenbrouwer sells exquisite fine art cards of her drawings as well as reproductions, and of some drawings smaller business-, gift- or mummy-cards. See Purchase in the header for what is available as well as the price list. In case you like to commission Paula, contact her at mindfuldrawing@gmail.com
 

 

Hibernating Birds

Kingfisher, Coloured Pencils, Paula Kuitenbrouwer, photo Thomas Kluck

Long ago people did not know that some birds migrate. They thought the birds hid in holes in the ground and slept all winter. Some people guessed that birds spent the winter in the mud on the bottoms of ponds. Before you dismiss this as silly, think about how strange it must have felt that birds are there and all of the sudden they are gone. People did not know where these birds go. They couldn’t imagine that birds could fly long distances or fly over water for 500 miles without stopping. And how would birds find their way during daytime and night time? So the thought that birds would hide isn’t that silly. Imagine you see this Kingfisher diving in a pond regularly in search of food. The thought that it would stay in the mud on the bottoms of ponds or that owls would hid in holes in big trees isn’t a big stretch. We now know birds migrate and do not hibernate. We’ve learned birds fly enormous distances and do a fine job navigating with the help of landscapes, stars, the position of the sun and moon, and perhaps with the Earth’s magnetic field.  Clever birds. To teach my daughter about clever birds, I’ve read to her ‘How do Birds Find Their Way’ by Rona Gans and ‘The Boy Who Drew Birds, a story of John James Audubon’ by Jacqueline Davies. I highly recommend these books.

Paula Kuitenbrouwer
Paula Kuitenbrouwer sells exquisite fine art cards of her drawings as well as reproductions, and of some drawings smaller business-, gift- or mummy-cards. See Purchase in the header for what is available as well as the price list. In case you like to commission Paula, contact her at mindfuldrawing@gmail.com