A Pink Moment

12 Sunday May 2013

Posted by Paula Kuitenbrouwer in Beautiful, Botany, Colours, Dutch Tulips, Flowers, Magnolia, Mindful Observing Colours, Seasons

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Enjoy spring’s pink moments…

Magnolia

Magnolia detail

Malus ‘Red Sentinel’ Blossom;
Magnolia Branches, coloured pencil drawing Paula Kuitenbrouwer;
Magnolia branch, coloured pencil drawing Paula Kuitenbrouwer;
Yellow-Pink tulips.

Are you enjoying pink in your garden or your local park? You love or hate pink? Did you ever had a pink moment and later asked yourself ‘What was I thinking?’

Nature knows how to handle pink well; it mixes it with fresh green, dark brown and orange-red, as you can see studying the above photos and drawings. I think pink needs to grow up and does that well by relating itself to more adult colours like green, brown and red. Right? Or not? I invite you to share your thoughts on pink.

Paula

Paula Kuitenbrouwer sells exquisite original drawings, fine art cards, reproductions, and business-, gift- or mummy-cards. See Purchase in the header. In case you like to commission Paula, contact her at mindfuldrawing@gmail.com

Spring, Persephone, and Demeter

19 Friday Apr 2013

Posted by Paula Kuitenbrouwer 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

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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

Delicate Butterflies

16 Tuesday Apr 2013

Posted by Paula Kuitenbrouwer 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

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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

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

16 Saturday Mar 2013

Posted by Paula Kuitenbrouwer 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

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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.

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

Pumpkin Fall Autumn Harvest Halloween Fine Art Card

24 Monday Sep 2012

Posted by Paula Kuitenbrouwer 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

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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

Put Different Elements Together

27 Monday Aug 2012

Posted by Paula Kuitenbrouwer in Design, Home-Decoration, Pumpkin, Putting different elements together, Seasons

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Korean Designer Hun-Chung Lee, Lim-geo Dang, Put Those Elements Together

Putting different elements together is rewarding

In my drawing of a Pumpkin with Autumn Butterflies I’ve put put two elements together: a heavy pumpkin and contrary to the central heaviness of the pumpkin two light-weighted butterflies. If an object or element is heavy, it adds charm to a picture to complement it with something not-heavy, in this case fluttering butterflies. Different elements work great together.

Have a look at how Korean Designer Hun-Chung Lee shows in ‘The Ceramic Furniture of Hun-Chung Lee’ how beautiful he has put geometrical elements together.

We see a square, a rectangle, a sphere, and a block and they all make this wonderful bench to sit on. No…to sit on after admiring it. Or to admire it at the same time as sitting on it while resting your arm on the rectangular block. For more click here.

This Korean house design by Lim-geo Dang my heart jump too.

See how it combines cosy corners, in which you feel safe and at home, with openness and a far view. The house uses concrete and wood, glass and vegetation to combine elements. The light on the different elements creates a wonderful colour palette, mainly soft yellow. It is as if the sun shines, but if you look at the sky you clearly see an overcast. How would you feel in a house that offers you elements like space, cosiness and sunshine? More info here.

Even within a drawing of one type of flowers, in this case tulips, one can put different elements together.

Notice how the first flower on the left is opening. Follow the bouquet clockwise and see how the tulips comes to full bloom. Finish your mindful observation by observing the last, hanging tulip that represents decay and the end of a life. Even when you draw 4 flowers you can suggest all the elements of an old fashioned Vanitas theme: that life is short. The Latin Vanitas means “emptiness” and loosely translated corresponds to the meaninglessness of earthly life.

Putting different elements together is rewarding.

Paula

The Merry Month of May

24 Thursday May 2012

Posted by Paula Kuitenbrouwer in Butterflies, On Art, Seasons

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Butterflies, copyright Paula Kuitenbrouwer

Does it feel like May in your garden? Here it certainly does. The baby birds have left their birdhouse. Butterflies and bees are everywhere. Flowers bloom and finally we have lunch and dinner outside.

The month May was named for the Greek goddess Maia, who was identified with the Roman era goddess of fertility, Bona Dea, whose festival was held in May. Conversely, the Roman poet Ovid provides a second etymology, in which he says that the month of May is named for the maiores, Latin for “elders,” and that the following month (June) is named for the iuniores, or “young people”.

Here is Sandro Botticelli’s Primavera

Primavera (Allegory of Spring) painting of 1482 by Sandro Botticelli.

The goddess Maia is right of the centre, here in detail:

How beautiful Maia is. She is May and Spring not only because of all her flowers, also because of her somewhat lazy and warm countenance. The sun seems to shine on her face and neck, she shows how spring feels.

Paula

Easter Tulip Cards

02 Monday Apr 2012

Posted by Paula Kuitenbrouwer 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

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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

Tulipmania

04 Wednesday Jan 2012

Posted by Paula Kuitenbrouwer in Botany, Seasons, Tulips

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Four Tulips

Tulips in coloured pencils, copyright Paula Kuitenbrouwer, photo Thomas Kluck. An explanation of the composition is here. Available as fine art cards.

I’m suffering from Tulip mania or Tulipomania again. I hope it doesn’t sound immoral, but I hope to infect you all.

This tulip, a detail of a larger painting, was done with oil-paint. And so is this one:

This one is done with coloured pencils again:

The Three Graces Three Graces, available as fine art cards, copyright Paula Kuitenbrouwer, photo Thomas Kluck.

Enjoy your Tulip season!

Paula

Winter Green: Holly, Snow berries, Mistletoe, and Common Hazel.

28 Monday Nov 2011

Posted by Paula Kuitenbrouwer in Botany, Seasons, Winter

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Winter Green, copyright Paula Kuitenbrouwer, Photo Thomas Kluck

Holly with and without leaves, Snow berries, Mistletoe, and Common Hazel.

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

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Category Archives: Seasons

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