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I drew this row of books on the bookshelf in my studio. I only used a very fine fineliner and a black pencil. It was an interesting exercise for learning about drawing type and the diversity of lettering forms.

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I've always wanted to draw a chicken but nothing ever came of it. Finally, last week, I spent the whole day drawing this huge black-and-white chicken in my Moleskine sketchbook, ànd doing the lettering. Now I'm figuring out what I will draw on the opposite page. I've already got some ideas!

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Some months ago I started a new project: immortalizing important objects in our lives. No deadline, no stress and I'll see what comes out of it! In November, I posted a first object, namely a kelim. I bought it when I was in Istanbul in the seventies and it's one of those things with a sentimental value. This time, as you can see below, I made a drawing of a vintage camera. It's an important object in my husband's life who is a photographer. This camera was his first. I only used a fine black pigment liner and the challenge was to achieve the various grades of shading.

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I could make it through 2020, in a large part because of you, my blog and Instagram friends. Thank you for your friendship! Let us all hope that 2021 will be a normal year again. I'm a positive person and I tend to look at the bright side of life but the last weeks of 2020 took their toll on me. I want to take this opportunity to start fresh with you and wish you love and hope in the new year!

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I've been busy, working in my second dotted grid journal. In my first one, I used black and yellow (see my post of some weeks ago). In this one, it's black and orange, sometimes adding a little turquoise. Working in this notebook really has a soothing effect on me and I can recommend it to anyone who has the lockdown blues!

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I'm immortalizing important objects in my life. When I was 19 years old I made an adventurous trip to Afghanistan. Along the way, in the pasar in Istanbul, I bought this so-called kelim. Its actual colors have faded, but for this color pencil drawing I've brightened them up!

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EMBROIDERY

10/11/2020

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I love folk art and ethnic art. For this small embroidery piece, I was inspired by Peruvian art. These figures can be seen on ancient ceramics. This kind of embroidery is called 'needle painting', so painting with a needle. It is the ideal stitch for filling up large areas.

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EMBROIDERY

8/10/2020

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In my previous life I was an embroidery teacher and I loved practicing it till the last day. All my embroidery pieces are in a cardboard box now since many years. This is a needlepainting embroidery. I got my inspiration from Indian art and it represents a tree of life, a subject that frequently pops up in folk art from all over the world.

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September 12th, 2020

12/9/2020

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Last week I discovered a French draftsman and architect that I did not know yet: Jean‐Jacques Lequeu (1757–1826).
Lequeu’s meticulous drawings in pen and wash include highly detailed renderings of buildings and imaginary monuments populating invented landscapes. His mission was to see and describe everything systematically - from the animal to the organic, from erotic fantasy to his own visage. Solitary and obsessive, he created the fantastic worlds shown in his drawings without ever leaving his studio, and enriched them with characters and stories drawn from his library.

Six months before he died in poverty and obscurity, architect and draftsman donated more than 800 drawings to the French Royal Library. They remained there, in the institution that would become the Bibliothèque nationale de France.

Self portrait

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GREEN AS IN ...

5/8/2020

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FINELINER DRAWING

I drew this row of books on the bookshelf in my studio. I only used a very fine fineliner and a black pencil. It was an interesting exercise for learning about drawing type and the diversity of lettering forms.

CHICKEN

I've always wanted to draw a chicken but nothing ever came of it. Finally, last week, I spent the whole day drawing this huge black-and-white chicken in my Moleskine sketchbook, ànd doing the lettering. Now I'm figuring out what I will draw on the opposite page. I've already got some ideas!

CAMERA

HAPPY NEW YEAR

PATTERNS

KELIM DRAWING

EMBROIDERY

I love folk art and ethnic art. For this small embroidery piece, I was inspired by Peruvian art. These figures can be seen on ancient ceramics. This kind of embroidery is called 'needle painting', so painting with a needle. It is the ideal stitch for filling up large areas.

EMBROIDERY

September 12th, 2020

GREEN AS IN ...

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I drew this row of books on the bookshelf in my studio. I only used a very fine fineliner and a black pencil. It was an interesting exercise for learning about drawing type and the diversity of lettering forms.

I've always wanted to draw a chicken but nothing ever came of it. Finally, last week, I spent the whole day drawing this huge black-and-white chicken in my Moleskine sketchbook, ànd doing the lettering. Now I'm figuring out what I will draw on the opposite page. I've already got some ideas!

I love folk art and ethnic art. For this small embroidery piece, I was inspired by Peruvian art. These figures can be seen on ancient ceramics. This kind of embroidery is called 'needle painting', so painting with a needle. It is the ideal stitch for filling up large areas.​

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I love folk art and ethnic art. For this small embroidery piece, I was inspired by Peruvian art. These figures can be seen on ancient ceramics. This kind of embroidery is called 'needle painting', so painting with a needle. It is the ideal stitch for filling up large areas.