Mindfully Drinking Jasmine Tea

Posted in Coffee Tea Mug, Crafts, Custom Made Mindful Drawing Products, Home-Decoration, Inspiration, Meditation, Mindful Drawing, Mindful Drawing Products, Mindfullness, Tea by Paula Kuitenbrouwer

To drink your Jasmine tea with awareness, you might like to….

Jasmin

….admire the origin of your tea, the Jasmine shrub with its white flowers.

You can spend some thoughts on how the shrub lived and bloomed, and how the flowers smell. Your tea is scented with Jasmine flowers; do you see the whitish leaves? If you have bought Jasmine pearls, you could appreciate how they unfold.

Sniff the relaxing scent of Jasmine. Does this bring back memories? Happy memories? Do you like to let go something before you will enjoy your tea? Feel the warm tea mug and enjoy the drinking. Thoughts, scent, and taste…observe them all.

Do you get distracted or is your tea finished? Feel the tranquillizing effect of your mindful tea session by being grateful for this mindful moment.

Apple and Butterfly Mugs designed by Paula (click to enlarge)

A lovely poem about Jasmine tea you find here.

What are your thoughts on Jasmine tea and mindfully drinking scented tea? Is Jasmine growing in your garden? Have you painted its flowers? I invite you to add your link in the comment section.

Paula Kuitenbrouwer

24May2013

Father’s Day June 16th; What to give to the best Daddy ever?

Posted in Beautiful, Birds, Birds of Prey, Birds of Prey Roofvogels, Celebrating....., Common Kestrel: Falco tinnunculus, Custom Made Mindful Drawing Products, Daddy Card, Eurasian Golden Oriole, Father's day, Fine Art Cards, Mindful Drawing, Mindful Drawing Products, Oriolus oriolus or Wielewaal, Paula Kuitenbrouwer, Postcards, Thank-You Cards, Woodcocks, Woodpecker by Paula Kuitenbrouwer

Father’s Day is a celebration honouring fathers and celebrating fatherhood, paternal bonds, and the influence of fathers in society. This is a rather long definition. To celebrate ‘The Best Dad Ever’ of ‘The Best Daddy in the World’, probably rings more bells.

‘Daddy toss me in the air’ and ‘Daddy be a horsey’ is preformed by dad year round; one day per year it is about celebrating good fathers.

KestrelCards

Happy Father’s day to all best daddies of the world!

I have two gifts designed for bird loving fathers.

An A4 high quality reproduction of my Common Kestrels on thick fine art paper (that can be framed) for 20 Euro/ 17 British pounds/ 25 US Dollars exclusive shipping.

And a set of 4 fine art cards of a pair of Woodpeckers, Woodcocks, Golden Orioles, and Turtle Doves, that come with inlays and envelopes. This set is 15 Euro/ 20 USA dollars/ 13 British pounds exclusive shipping.

Paula

For ordering, contact me at mindfuldrawing@gmail.com

22May2013

Vesak or Buddha’s Birthday

Posted in celebration of holy days, Custom Made Mindful Drawing Products, Drawings by Thomas Kluck, Free Drawing, Freehand Drawing, Greeting Cards, Handwritten Note, Happy Holiday Cards, Holidays, Mindful Drawing Products, Mindfullness, Mindfully Drawing, Postcards, Vesak or Buddha's Birthday by Paula Kuitenbrouwer

BuddhaThom

Drawing, conté crayons, copyright by Thomas Kluck

Vesak, or Buddha’s Birthday, is a holy day observed traditionally by Buddhists that commemorates the birth, enlightenment, and death of Gautama Buddha. This year Vesak is celebrated on the 25th of May.

Colourful lanterns with wish tags and cherry blossoms

When my family lived in Korea, we celebrated Vesak by going to our neighbouring temple. The streets leading up to the temple were decorated with lanterns and trees celebrated the month of May with abundant cherry blossoms. The temple was almost covered with colourful lanterns. Our young daughter had to touch them all. Buddha’s Birthday was one of the most colourful and happiest days.

We donated money to the temple and clipped our wish tag to one of the lanterns. After a walk through the temple gardens, we were invited by the monks to pour ama-cha (a beverage prepared from a variety of hydrangea) on a small Buddha statute, as if bathing a newborn baby. A festival with music and lectures followed. Long time after we had gone home, we could still listen to the music through our open windows.

If you have no temple in your area, you can still celebrate Buddha’s birthday. Invite friends over for a (vegan/vegetarian) lunch or diner, put on colourful lanterns, or write your fellow Buddhist friends a nice handwritten note with a Buddhist verse that inspires you and your friend. Or walk the dog of your ill neighbour or visit an animal shelter…there are many ways to celebrate Vesak.

May the teachings of the Buddha bring you wisdom and happiness.

Paula Kuitenbrouwer

P.S. I invite links to vegan/vegetarian blogs for Vesak lunch and dinner ideas in the comment-section. I thank my fellow vegan and vegetarian blog-friends in advance for their cooperation and scrumptious ideas.

19Apr2013

Spring, Persephone, and Demeter

Posted in Botany, Custom Made Mindful Drawing Products, Dutch Tulips, Fine Art Cards, Garden Inspiration, Greeting Cards, Mindful Drawing, Mindful Drawing Products, Mindfully Drawing, Motherhood, On Art, Paula Kuitenbrouwer, Postcards, Seasons, Spring, Such is life...., Thank-You Cards by Paula Kuitenbrouwer

Paula’s Spring Fine Art Card Sets, click on pictures to enlarge.

Spring has arrived in the Netherlands!

The Greek goddess Persephone, also named Proserpine, is the personification of spring. She is the daughter of Zeus (a.k.a. Jupiter) and Demeter (a.k.a. Ceres).

Persephone sitting on her throne (marble)

During winter she is abducted by Hades, to be queen of Underworld. Every spring she is allowed to return to the surface of the earth. As soon as Persephone leaves the Underworld, spring is inevitable.

This year it took Persephone a long time to escaped from the wintry embrace by Hades, the ancient Greek god of the Underworld. Demeter, her mother, cries of joy, and embraces her daughter. Now they celebrate spring together.

Demeter and Persephone?

Terracotta, two women, Hellenistic, around 100 BC
The figures may represent Demeter and Persephone.

Demeter is a glorious mother goddess again. She blesses our fields and flowers. Our grain will ripen, and our harvest will be abundant. Persephone and Demeter will make our garden and balcony flowers bloom.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Proserpine (Persephone), 1874

It is wonderful to welcome Persephone and Demeter back after a long, cold winter. Let’s hope they bless our flowers and crops.

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

16Apr2013

Delicate Butterflies

Posted in Beautiful, Broad-bodied Chaser Dragonfly, Broad-bodied Chaser Libelle, Business Cards, Butterflies, Coloured Pencil, Colours, Custom Made Mindful Drawing Products, Dragonfly, Feehand drawing, Garden Inspiration, Greeting Cards, Handwritten Note, insects, Mindful Drawing Products, Mindfully Drawing, Mother's day, Mummy card, Note Cards, Paula Kuitenbrouwer, Postcards, Seasons, Thank-You Cards by Paula Kuitenbrouwer

To my delight, I’ve seen the first butterfly of this season.

The first butterflies we are likely to see early in the year are those which hibernate, such as the Peacock, Comma, Red Admiral, and Small Tortoiseshells.

Delicate Butterflies

All of them I’ve drawn on my different butterfly compositions.

Atalanta & Peacock

Atalanta & Peacock

(For more information on this set of fine art cards, click here.)

(A Ringlet)

Have you seen spring butterflies?

Could you find out or look up which one it was?

Paula Kuitenbrouwer

16Mar2013

An invitation to have a look at my work…..

Posted in Bags, Beautiful Dutch, Beetle, Birds, Birthday gifts, Botany, Broad-bodied Chaser Dragonfly, Broad-bodied Chaser Libelle, Bug, Bugs, Butterflies, Christmas Cards, Crafts, Custom Made Mindful Drawing Products, Dragonfly, Dutch, Dutch Tulips, Eurasian Golden Oriole, Feathers, Fine Art Cards, Fish, Floral Composition, Flowers, Forest Fruit, Friendship, Fruit, Garden Birds, Gifts, Golden Oriole: Oriolus oriolus, Greeting Cards, Handwritten Note, Happy Holiday Cards, Holidays, Holly, Home-Decoration, Honeysuckle, Ilex aquifolium, insects, Kingfisher, Kuitenbrouwer-Kuytenbrouwer, Love, May Bugs, Menu Cards, Mindful Drawing, Mindful Drawing Products, Mother's day, Motherhood, Mummy card, New Year, Note Cards, Oriolus oriolus or Wielewaal, Owl, Paula Kuitenbrouwer, Pine-Cones, Pineapples, Postcards, Production of Fine Art cards, Pumpkin, Reproductions, Seasons, Shop, So Beautifully Dutch, SongThrush, Spring, Stag Beetle, Still Life, Tawny Owl, Thank-You Cards, Thanksgiving, Tote Bag, Tulips, Website Paula Kuitenbrouwer, Winter, Woodcocks, Woodpecker by Paula Kuitenbrouwer

I invite you to have a look at my portfolio. To view the drawings-paintings, click on the names:

Birds, Flowers, Butterflies, Nature, and Miscellaneous (Available for ordering)

Birds:

Owls, Tawny, Strix aluco. Available as Fine Art Cards, Reproduction (A4-size)
Dove, Eurasian Collared Dove, Streptopelia decaocto. Available as Fine Art Cards, Reproduction (A4-size)
Woodcocks, Scolopax rusticola, Available as Fine Art Cards, Reproduction (A4-size), small stickers, Business card, Small Gift Card.
Woodpeckers, Dendrocopos minor. Available as Fine Art Cards, Reproduction (A4-size).
Song Thrush, Turdus philomelos. Available as Fine Art Cards, Reproduction (A4-size)
Lapwings (Peewits), Vanellus vanellus. Available as Fine Art Cards, Reproduction (A4-size)
Golden Orioles, Oriolus oriolus. Available as Fine Art Cards, Reproduction (A4-size)
Kingfisher, Alcedo azurea. Available as Fine Art Cards, Small stickers, Business card, Small Gift Card.
Bullfinches, Pyrrhula pyrrhula. Available as a Fine Art Cards.
European-goldfinch, Carduelis carduelis. Available as a Fine Art Card.
Common Kestrels with Nest (Falco tinnunculus). Available as A4 reproduction and A5 fine art cards. Click here and here for a preview.

Flowers/Botanical:

Honeysuckle, Lonicera. Available as Fine Art Cards, A-4 Reproduction, Business cards.
Poinsettia, Euphorbia pulcherrima. Available as sticker.
Tulips (3 tulips heads), Tulipa gesneriana, Available as Fine Art Card, Postcard.
Tulips (4 stalks with tulip heads), Tulipa gesneriana.
Tulip (1 half open tulip head), Tulipa gesneriana. Available as Postcard.
Holly, (1 branch), Ilex aquifolium. Available as business card.

Butterflies:

Peacock and Atalanta Butterflies. Available as Fine Art Cards, A-4 Reproduction, Business cards, and small stickers.
Ringlet. Available as Business cards.
Swallowtail and a Broad-bodied Chaser Dragonfly. Available as Fine Art Cards, A-4 Reproduction, and mouse pad.

Fish:

Koi carp with lotus flower. Available as Fine Art Cards and A-4 Reproduction.
Koi carp with dragonfly. Available as Fine Art Cards, A-4 Reproduction.

Fruit and Vegetables:

Pumpkin with butterflies. Available as Fine Art Cards, A-4 Reproduction and Postcards.
Pumpkin with apples, birds and a stag beetle. Available as Fine Art Cards, A-4 Reproduction.
Tangerines. Available as Fine Art Cards and postcards.
Apple. Available as Fine Art Cards, Mouse Pad, and Postcards.

Miscellaneous:

Pheasant Feather. Available as Fine Art Cards.
Acorn, Available as Fine Art Cards.
Tote Bags, 100% cotton, with butterflies, an Orange Lily, Woodpeckers, or a Kingfisher. Contact me for prices at mindfuldrawing@gmail.com

Here is the price list:

Price list 2013

And here are recommendations and reviews:

“Lovely item and a very helpful seller – many thanks!”

“Shipment was very fast and the product was very high quality. Thank you – I’m very pleased”

“What GORGEOUS ARTWORK you do! I always wished I was more artistic, I love to draw but only have limited talent in that way. I love you depictions of nature, just beautiful! Thank you for sharing that”.

“Hi Paula, I love your drawings and looking at them I can really feel the quiet moments and simple pleasures we can get from nature. Very calming, indeed! Many thanks”.

“You are a wonderfully talented artist Paula with a beautiful technique for making tender images that warm my heart to look at. Thank you”

“Paula, like you I love nature but you have an amazing capacity to capture nature at it’s best with your wonderful drawings. My best wishes for your continued success – people will fall in love with your wonderful talent”.

“The detail shown in the drawing of the Tawny Owl is amazing. This is another amazing piece from your Collection. Warm regards”

“Paula, I loved your nature arts. I do like stumbling upon feathers once in a while and collect them for their beauty. They seem like magical gifts from nature”.

Questions and orders? Contact: mindfuldrawing@gmail.com

New drawings and paintings are regularly uploaded

Paula

3Mar2013

Art class: working with gesso

Posted in Art Class, Crafts, Custom Made Mindful Drawing Products by Paula Kuitenbrouwer

Eggs It is easy to buy prepared painting boards and canvases. However it is nice to teach working with gesso.

It gives the art-student endless possibilities to decorate other objects than painting boards or canvases, like decorating small boards, or a beverage coaster, or a tray.

1. Blanc piece of wood

2. Prepared with 3 layers of Gesso and decorated with Easter eggs (gouache/plakaatverf).

Gesso (Latin: gypsum) is a white paint mixture consisting of a binder mixed with chalk, gypsum, and white pigment. It is used in artwork as a preparation for wood panels or canvases as a base for paint.

3. My daughter’s board with Easter eggs and mine.

Both are finished with Damar gloss varnish.

4. Eggs, Shells and Butterflies, Paula Kuitenbrouwer

Paula Kuitenbrouwer

17Jan2013

Golden Orioles

Posted in Birds, Coloured Pencil, Custom Made Mindful Drawing Products, Fine Art Cards, Golden Oriole: Oriolus oriolus, Greeting Cards, Mindful Drawing Products, Oriolus oriolus or Wielewaal, Postcards, Reproductions by Paula Kuitenbrouwer

Golden Orioles, copyright Paula Kuitenbrouwer

Golden Orioles Fine Art Cards (A5) & an A-4 print

My Golden Orioles fine art cards are available now. For the A-4 print and more information on ordering on and off-line, contact me at mindfuldrawing@gmail.com.

Paula

5Dec2012

Dragonfly and Swallowtail Butterfly

Posted in Butterflies, Christmas Cards, Custom Made Mindful Drawing Products, Happy Holiday Cards, Postcards, Such is life.... by Paula Kuitenbrouwer

Original Dragonfly Swallowtail Butterfly coloured-pencil drawing, postcards, and mouse-pad, copyright Paula Kuitenbrouwer

To view this Dragonfly & Swallowtail Fine Art Card close up, click here.

On an ideal day, after home schooling my daughter, I have plenty of time to draw. The clock doesn’t seem to tick…..the day will last forever. Inspired by teaching the Great Masters, I start a new oil painting, carefully preparing it with a white-black under layer, time to start cooking is still far away.

(my Christmas-Happy Holiday Fine Art Card, my Gift-cards, old church-books, German herbal bouquet, Korean decoration and Italian fabric)

There is even enough time to toy with my camera.

How does your ideal day look like? You need 48 or 72 hours extra in a day?

Paula

2Nov2012

A Handwritten Note

Posted in Christmas, Christmas Cards, Custom Made Mindful Drawing Products, Feathers, Fine Art Cards, Friendship, Greeting Cards, Handwritten Note, Happy Holiday Cards, Mindful Drawing Products, Postcards, Thanksgiving by Paula Kuitenbrouwer

Click to enlarge

Such wonderful treasure: The Art of the Handwritten Note, a guide to reclaiming civilized communication by Margaret Shepherd. This valuable book provides us with inspiration for writing letters and notes, as well as small thank you cards, shown here attached on a Korean Celadon flower vase with Dutch Tulips.

Vermeer’s ‘Girl reading a letter at an open window’ (circa 1659) tells us that despite the open window, that invites noises of playing children, dogs or chickens in the yard, in the room, a handwritten note captures the devoted attention of the girl. For a brief moment, the reader is drawn into the world of the writer. While we read letters, we hear the voices of the writers in our heads and hearts.

Don’t we all need a bit of enchantment, a show of friendship, or, like my Pheasant Feather card, a sign of appreciation?

We are approaching the Christmas and the Happy Holidays season. Refill your ink pens, and prepare your desk for a few hours of delightful, mindfully writing handwritten notes and cards.

Paula

24Sep2012

Pumpkin Fall Autumn Harvest Halloween Fine Art Card

Posted in Autumn, Beetle, Bug, Bugs, Coloured Pencil, Composition, Custom Made Mindful Drawing Products, Floral Composition, Flowers, Free Drawing, Garden Birds, Garden Inspiration, Greeting Cards, Halloween, Handwritten Note, Holidays, Menu Cards, Mindful Drawing Products, Orange, Postcards, Pumpkin, Seasons, Stag Beetle, Thank-You Cards, Thanksgiving by Paula Kuitenbrouwer

Autumn 2012 copyright by Paula Kuitenbrouwer

On show, my Pumpkin, Fall, Autumn, Harvest, or Halloween drawing. Cards are printed too. Let me explain you the theme and composition. This year I’ve combined garden birds, two Parus major ‘chickadees’, with fall fruit: pumpkins, apples, and acorns.
Last summer I’ve been hoping to find a Stag Beetle. I couldn’t find one, so I was happy to draw one. It slowly makes its way to the acorns and apples.

The chickadees in our garden give us constant delight and inspiration: they are dominant, noisy and funny. I can’t stop looking at their wonderful colours.

At the end of our street, there is a pumpkin patch. It is so nice to see the orange spots growing bigger every time we drive pass it.

Acorns…well, they keep us awake at night because they fall on our roof. When it is windy, we run to our front door with our hands covering our heads, afraid to get bombarded by them.

I’ve aimed for a diagonal composition. The Stag Beetle guides your view from down-left to up-right, to the last upright leaf of the big orange pumpkin. Normally I would put big objects in the back, but I liked the large orange pumpkin to dominate the drawing. The small green one offers depth being positioned behind the big large pumpkin. My signature is hidden in one single straw.

I wish you a lovely autumn season.

Paula Kuitenbrouwer

Pumpkin compositions by Paula Kuitenbrouwer

19Sep2012

Mindful Drawing Gift and Note Cards

Posted in Cardettes made from garden twigs, Crafts, Custom Made Mindful Drawing Products, Gifts, Home-Decoration, Mindful Drawing Products, Shop, Thank-You Cards, Thanksgiving by Paula Kuitenbrouwer

If possible, use your business cards as gift cards and small note cards too.

Self made wooden cardettes from garden twigs with gift cards.

Woodcocks

Ringlet

Holly

Tulip

Gifts

I like to congratulate my friend Sybille Kramer with her self-drawn and designed postmark.

Sybille Kramer’s wintry Briefmarke.

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

11Sep2012

Acorn

Posted in Botany, Business Cards, Butterflies, Coloured Pencil, Custom Made Mindful Drawing Products, Fine Art Cards, Free Drawing, Fruit, Happy Holiday Cards, Home-Decoration, Mindful Drawing, Mindful Drawing Products, Note Cards, Paula Kuitenbrouwer, Postcards, Thank-You Cards by Paula Kuitenbrouwer

Acorn by Paula Kuitenbrouwer, Acrylic Paint, 2011

Acorn, pastels, by Paula Kuitenbrouwer, pastels, 2010.

Fine Art Cards of the lower acorn can be ordered at mindfuldrawing@gmail.com

30Jul2012

Mindful Customisable Postcards

Posted in Custom Made Mindful Drawing Products, DaWanda, Etsy, Greeting Cards, Mindful Drawing Products, Postcards, Thank-You Cards by Paula Kuitenbrouwer

Woodpeckers Family

Three Graces

I’ve designed 2 regular postcards that come with your customizable message and envelopes. They are perfect for short messages. The Woodpeckers for congratulations with a new house, and the tulip-heads are perfect for expressing love or gratitude.

This are regular postcards and therefore aren’t my exquisite Fine Art Cards that are printed on high quality paper with special ink.

The above postcards are glossy postcards and come with white envelopes. Contact me for prizes at mindfuldrawing@gmail.com

If you like my woodpeckers and tulip heads printed on high quality art paper, individually packed, printed with high quality ink, with inlays and envelopes, click then here for the woodpeckers and here for the tulips.

Contact me at mindfuldrawing.com for prices.

Paula

23Apr2012

The Woodpecker Family

Posted in Birds, Coloured Pencil, Custom Made Mindful Drawing Products, Father's day, Fine Art Cards, Greeting Cards, Mindful Drawing Products, Postcards, Reproductions, Thank-You Cards, Woodpecker by Paula Kuitenbrouwer

Woodpecker Family copyright Paula Kuitenbrouwer, photo Thomas Kluck

I’ve finished my portrait of a woodpecker family based on The Hamlyn Guide to Birds of Britain and Europe. Daddy Woodpecker inspects his home. Mum Woodpecker feeds her son. Notice that a female woodpecker has no red cap. Both male and female have a red belly.

English: Lesser Spotted Woodpecker

German: Der Kleinspecht

Dutch: Kleine bonte specht

Latin: Dendrocopos minor

Italian: Dendrocopos minor

French: Pic épeichette

Portuguese: Pica pau

Danish: Lille flagspaette

I hope my readers will add more names in the comment section.

The original Woodpecker drawing, with an A5 Fine Art Card and an A6 Fine Art Card

Paula Kuitenbrouwer

She is looking forward to hear from you.

2Apr2012

Easter Tulip Cards

Posted in Coloured Pencil, Custom Made Mindful Drawing Products, Dutch Tulips, Fine Art Cards, Floral Composition, Greeting Cards, Handwritten Note, Menu Cards, Mindful Drawing Products, Note Cards, Postcards, Seasons, Spring, Thank-You Cards, Tulips by Paula Kuitenbrouwer

Four Tulips copyright by Paula Kuitenbrouwer, photo Thomas Kluck

Coloured pencils, printed on high quality art paper.

More on the composition of this drawing is here.

Available as a set of 5 regular and large fine art cards.

Paula Kuitenbrouwer

26Mar2012

Mindful Drawing Business or Gift Card Design

Posted in Butterflies, Custom Made Mindful Drawing Products by Paula Kuitenbrouwer

20Mar2012

Civilized Communication

Posted in Birthday gifts, Custom Made Mindful Drawing Products, Design, Father's day, Fine Art Cards, Mindful Drawing Products, Mother's day, Note Cards, Paula Kuitenbrouwer's Art Friends, Postcards, Thank-You Cards by Paula Kuitenbrouwer

Bullfinches Fine Art Cards by Paula Kuitenbrouwer, photo Thomas Kluck

…***…

I’ve discovered a marvellous, little book. It is named ‘The Art of the Handwritten Note, a guide to reclaiming civilized communication‘ by Margaret Shepherd.

‘The handwritten note has been around for hundreds of years, and it’s not going to die out just because some of its everyday functions have been taken over by e-mail and voice mail‘, writes Margaret Shepherd. Here is the link to the book.

This small and beautiful book opens with a chapter ‘Good Reasons to Stop Making Excuses‘. You are not too busy, people do still write handwritten notes, and your neglected handwriting can be improved. Reclaim civilized communication with Shepherd’s book and my Fine Art cards. Not only you will be happy, you will keep the art of the handwritten note alive.

Here is my Pheasant Feather card. It was commissioned by a teacher for using as a handwritten note of praise to excellent students.

Pheasant Feather Fine Art Card by Paula Kuitenbrouwer (copyrighted)

13Mar2012

Woodcocks, Scolopax, Houtsnippen, Scolopax rusticola

Posted in Birds, Custom Made Mindful Drawing Products, Greeting Cards, Mindful Drawing Products, Note Cards, Reproductions, Thank-You Cards by Paula Kuitenbrouwer

Woodcocks, copyright by Paula Kuitenbrouwer

Remember Robin and Rhonda?

Their love story is here.

Woodcocks, coloured pencils, copyright Paula Kuitenbrouwer, photo Thomas Kluck.

A Woodcock is ‘Houtsnip’ in Dutch. Scolopax rusticola in Latin.

Paula Kuitenbrouwer

13Mar2012

Song thrush

Posted in Birds, Custom Made Mindful Drawing Products, Mindful Drawing Products, Postcards, Reproductions, Shop by Paula Kuitenbrouwer

My sweet Song-thrush, Turdus philomelos, copyright Paula Kuitenbrouwer

Robert Browning wrote about the song thrush in his poem Home Thoughts from Abroad:

“That’s the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over,

Lest you should think he never could recapture

The first fine careless rapture!”

Paula

16Feb2012

Correspondence

Posted in Custom Made Mindful Drawing Products, Design, Feathers, Fine Art Cards, Greeting Cards, Mindful Drawing Products, Postcards by Paula Kuitenbrouwer

Beautifully printed Pheasant Feather Fine Art cards.

See Purchase in the header for more information.

Paula

6Feb2012

Floral Cards

Posted in Botany, Coloured Pencil, Crafts, Custom Made Mindful Drawing Products, Dutch Tulips, Fine Art Cards, Floral Composition, Flowers, Free Drawing, Gifts, Greeting Cards, Honeysuckle, Menu Cards, Postcards, Tulips by Paula Kuitenbrouwer

Five Floral Cards by Paula Kuitenbrouwer, on a wooden display, photo Thomas Kluck

Now available: five floral cards…in one set, with inlays and matching envelopes.

An apple….a yummy one with curly leaves…too pretty to eat;

A Honeysuckle….you can almost smell it;

The Three Graces, 3 Dutch Tulips…very pretty;

Four Dutch Tulips in a diagonal composition and a pumpkin with two autumn butterflies.

Contact Paula at mindfuldrawing@gmail.com for the price and shipping costs. She is looking forward to hear from you.

28Jan2012

Pheasant Feather

Posted in Birds, Coloured Pencil, Custom Made Mindful Drawing Products, Feathers, Fine Art Cards, Free Drawing, Mindful Drawing Products by Paula Kuitenbrouwer

Pheasant Feather, copyright Paula Kuitenbrouwer, photo Thomas Kluck

This is my ‘Token of Appreciation Card’. The feather runs diagonal from the left down corner, symbolizing an increasing line of a line graph to the left upper corner. This shows good performance, increased productivity or knowledge. The card of appreciation makes employees feel proud. The card is printed on fine art paper and shows the tiniest detail.

Don’t underestimate the power of appreciative gestures. This card is excellent to give to your employees, students, volunteers or graduated family-members or friends. The cards made from this drawing are of high quality; it is like the feather is lying on the card instead of printed on it.

Paula

23Jan2012

Dutch Tulips

Posted in Botany, Coloured Pencil, Custom Made Mindful Drawing Products, Dutch Tulips, Free Drawing, Greeting Cards, Mindful Drawing Products, Postcards, Shop, Thank-You Cards, Tulips by Paula Kuitenbrouwer

Tulips copyright Paula Kuitenbrouwer, photo by Thomas Kluck

My Tulip drawing has a meaningful composition. If you like this drawing to be explained, click here for the full story on this drawing.

The fine art cards made from this drawing come with matching envelope and double inlay. My cards can be custom made and printed with your text. The original drawing 31 by 41 cm (12 1/8 ” by 16 1/8″) is 250 Euro, unframed, on Arches, Acid Free, hot pressed paper. 100% cotton. Contact Thomas Kluck for questions and requests at info@paulakuitenbrouwer.com or mindfuldrawing@gmail.com

Paula

21Jan2012

Birds and Fruit Fine Art Cards by Paula Kuitenbrouwer

Posted in Custom Made Mindful Drawing Products, Fruit, Garden Birds, Garden Inspiration, Greeting Cards, Menu Cards, Mindful Drawing, Mindful Drawing Products, Paula Kuitenbrouwer, Pyrrhula pyrrhula, Reproductions by Paula Kuitenbrouwer

My Bullfinches and Apple Fine Art cards

15Jan2012

Tote Bags without Hidden Advertisement

Posted in Bags, Custom Made Mindful Drawing Products, Design, Gifts, Mindful Drawing Products by Paula Kuitenbrouwer

Click on pictures to enlarge

Say no to plastic and say yes to pretty design without any text, yes without any hidden advertisement. A perfect gift for yourself or your friends that helps us all to reduce the use of plastic bags.

Paula

My shop has a few tote bags available. Contact for price and shipping me at mindfuldrawing@gmail.com

2Jan2012

A Tote Bag with a ‘Mindful Drawing’ Design

Posted in Custom Made Mindful Drawing Products, Design, Mindful Drawing Products, Shop, Tote Bag by Paula Kuitenbrouwer

Cotton Tote Bag with an Orange Lily design by Paula Kuitenbrouwer, photo Thomas Kluck

I recently read about a woman who doesn’t use plastic bags. When she forgets to bring her reusable bags, she takes out an armload without a bag. I love this self-discipline and determination. So here I go! I will NOT obtain any plastic bag in 2012. Instead I’ll use my own designed tote bag. Join the woman and me and welcome a free plastic-bag 2012!

Paula

See Purchase in the header of this blog for more information.

13Dec2011

Mindful Drawing Mugs

Posted in Custom Made Mindful Drawing Products, Gifts, Mindful Drawing Products by Paula Kuitenbrouwer

Autumn, Harvest, Thanksgivings, Fall, Christmas, or Best Wishes Mugs, by Paula Kuitenbrouwer

5Dec2011

Mindful Mass Production

Posted in Custom Made Mindful Drawing Products, Mindful Drawing Products by Paula Kuitenbrouwer

A Sunday well spent…..

on producing Mindful Drawing Fine Art Cards.

Busy with printing, cutting, and creasing (a technique to fold a half deep folding line in the paper). With Bach’s music, green tea, and Belgium chocolate, we can handle mass production.