Category Archives: Friendship

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

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Birdcards

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, 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.

Flowers/Botanical:

Butterflies:

Fish:

Fruit and Vegetables:

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

Tulip Cards

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

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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

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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

A Children’s Drawing

Posted in Art-Friends, Autumn/Fall, Friendship by

Pumkin with Autumns Butterflies by Paula Kuitenbrouwer

Pumpkin with butterflies by Martina’s daughter (2 1/2 years old)

Martina, from Vienna, wrote me a kind email. Attached I found a lovely drawing by her young daughter of a pumpkin with butterflies. Martina had seen my pumpkin drawing and noticed how her daughter’s drawing and mine resembled each other.

I enjoyed so much studying the drawing of Martina’s daughter. Our drawings look identical; the only difference is technique that comes with exercise and age.

Picasso ones said that it took him 40 years to draw like a child again. By showing the drawing of Martina’s daughter and my drawing, we are able to see Picasso’s remarkable observation in action.

Have a look at the young girl’s drawing: you see a pumpkin with yellow butterflies and the red with a red zig-zag line pushing the pumpkin somewhat to the back, and by doing that creating perspective. I have no idea if the red or yellow lines are the butterflies. The pumpkin clearly is surrounded by objects that have hold the attention of the 2 1/2 years old long enough to take the effort to put them on paper.

Toddler drawings are often mysterious. It is like they are an unknown language. If you ask a child what all the lines and dots are, you get a surprised remark; ‘A dinosaur!’ or ‘A house!’ sounding like it is internally followed by …can’t you see that? Why asking what is so obvious? Ah, well adults are a different breed.  If you ask it again a few years later, by now the 4 or 5 years old child still remembers in detail what all lines and dots represent. Then, suddenly when the drawing surfaces again a few years later, the maker rolls his or her eyes and says it is a childish drawing.

It would be interesting to study what is actually happening. Is it that the child has outgrown lines and dots? Or is it that a child sees the world differently? Or has the child fallen out of its magical child world in which all is alive, enchanting and that therefore a single line can represent a crocodile or a dot a teapot? I wish I had shamanistic skills to enter the world of a child again. (With that I would shorten Picasso’s 40 years).

Young children aren’t ambitious to create beauty. They don’t go hunting for beautiful flowers either. Neither are they enchanted by awesome landscapes. Could it be that their world is loaded with beauty due to their enchanted and uncorrupted perception? That we, as we grown ups, gradually fall out of paradise and fail to see beauty in ordinary things, and therefore we need to travel miles for lovely views, or visit museums for beauty? Are you one of those adults spending, consciously or subconsciously, much time of your life trying to recapture that sense of beauty?

I like to thank Martina’s wonderful daughter. Her drawing made me smile for a long time.

Well done, sweetie girl.

Paula Kuitenbrouwer

Eurasian Collared Dove

Posted in Birds, Free Drawing, Friendship, Greeting Cards, Love, Mindful Drawing Products, Postcards, Valentine by

Doves, copyright Paula Kuitenbrouwer, photo Thomas Kluck

I’ve drawn and designed a lovely Love, Wedding, or Valentine Card. Two doves just have finished a bit of grooming each other. Now he is saying to her…… or she says to him….

Well, isn’t that up to you?

Surprise your lover, friend, soul-mate, or neighbour with this card full love, and kindness.

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

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