Patience / Paciencia

A helping hand of Keri Smith

Go and explore the books of Keri Smith. On the website you can find some survival kit for the

hard times in an artist life :) It's such a bless and for sure I will print out this kit and use it.
Above some reasons why I failed posting the last days, I am beyond, but I'm fighting back :)

My Alice...

Went to see the new one of Tim Burton from who I am an absolutely big fan! Nightmare before Christmas has to be the best ever, but also Big Fish is one of my favourites! Now, Alice. It was a marvellous spectacle of colour, costumes, effects and magic although I still had expected a lot more Burton - 'touch'.... Disney was the boss I guess...

Awake and dreaming / Soñando despierta

Words and kids / Palabras y Niños

I'm very happy with this results from my wednesday -class. Such a bright colours wich they choosed by themselves...kids have such a great taste!

Go and see more on my other blog...welcome!
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Estoy muy feliz con los resultados de mis classes que doy cada miercoles. Los colores, el contraste, ellos mismo han eligido todo ...niños tienen un sabor sin fronteras no?
Bienvenido en mi otro blog con todos sus trabajos!

Welcome Spring!!!

On the first day of March and so far the first day -after months full of gray days, snow and rain, cold hands and icefeets - with sunshine!!!! And on that day I receive the Sunshine Award from Snezana, a very lovely Serbian blogfriend that lives and works in Italy!

Hvala Lepo Snezana!

Go and visit her blog : Katy and the cat

And as a tradition I will pass it to two bloggers who are in some way also 'sunshine' for me!

1. Karö with her amazing collages, since some weeks I discovered her blog and I am absolutely a big fan!

2. Amanda who makes me happy with her funny view on her move from Canada to Great Britain...on the other side of the Channel for me.

Huaco

Our replica of a pre-Inca 'Huaco' we brought with us from Peru. Just a quick doodle to wish my family in law a safe journey from Cusco to Caraz.
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Buen viaje Claudita, mama S., papa P. y Benji !!!

Surviving / Sobrevivir

Thinking of some very kind souls I met one day in Chile...after all those years we lost contact. How are they these days...what's happening overthere...just thinking of them...that is my Chile.
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Dadme el silencio, el agua, la esperanza.

Dadme la lucha, el hierro los volcanos.

Apegadme los cuerpos como imanes.
Acudid a mis venas a mi boca.

Hablas por mis palabras y mi sangre

P. Neruda

Sakura

In Japan these days the cherry blossoms, or Sakura in Japanese language, came alive, a very true and honest sign that spring isn't far away anymore, also for the rest of the northern part of the planet. I really hope to travel one day to Japan. It attracts me in a very particular way.

FrouFrou ! Cucu!!!

Finally, ready for springtime with my new cut. Last year I tried a hairdresser, bad try, so today i tried another one here in the small village where I'm living. And guess what, just perfect, a very good service, very friendly hairdressers with time to listen to all my wishes...and yes I'm happy!
It feels fresh, new, reborn...I'm ready for the sun and some new dresses very soon!
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Perspective

When he can catch a magazine or book about architecture or building cosy houses then he do so, to dream away in the future, to give time a certain perspective...while enjoying some tasty beers on this moment...a sweet one for today made of cherry's.
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Alpaca-stamp

Thinking of my second homeland...and enjoying making stamps and creating my homemade Alpaca's...the best thing to do on a rainy day.
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Pensando en mi segundo hogar...y disfrutar de hacer estampas y crear mis Alpaca's.
Todo para escapar de este dia lleno de lluvia.

Tea-time

It was a lovely afternoon having the visit of Sylvie at home. She is a very talented painter and full of knowledge about this life. Watch her website and blog! We enjoyed our cups of tea, the ginger-applecake I made and most of all the afternoon chat that made our day. Thanks Sylvie! This is for you! :) Hope you like it? Both they look full of future plans, no?! :)))
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Teniamos una tarde muy bonita Sylvie y yo. Ella, una pintora preciosa y muy talentado. Visita su website o blog! Hemos disfrutado de nuestros tecitos y la torta de manzana y guíon que he hecho para su llegada y hemos hablado sin fin sobre la vida. Gracias Sylvie!
Eso es para ti :) Espero que te gusta! Las dos chicas parecen lleno de planes por el futuro, no? :)

Propagate...

my love for you...By cooking the most lovely dishes.
I'm really trying hard to do my best...and he really loved it :)
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Quiero cocinar los mejores platos para ti mi amor y espero que te gustan!

Fruit full of passion

Healing / Curación

The best way to find back your healthy body is following nature. Again I realised myself that all the things I buyed in pharmacy didn't changed a note in my healing proces. Lemons, herbs and other spices like salt! brought me back to reality life...I feel still very lucky and I go spitting in the new book 'Grow your own drugs' from James Wong! About natural remedies and beauty threats!!! Goodnight folks! Don't forget some lavender underneath your pillow! ;)
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Back again with a plate of CEVICHE!!!

FINALLY!
I recovered almost from my painly throat. After my last drawing it went down and still deeper then I could think. Horrible days I passed now...and since yesterday I am recovering. Again I realise how lucky we are when the 'body-machine' is working like she has to do...but oooooo when it goes wrong! I suffered enough now...I'm turning back but slowly! to real life and because it's vacation here in B. I will keep the activity these days low. drawing is my first priority, visiting and leaving with friends the second one and other things can wait...
I'm hungry now of drawing this recipe for the funny site of Tom : Recipe Look.

Take a look on his space, take a paper and draw your recipe.
Everyone can do it. I just sended mine...
and now back to the sofa and take a rest
Welcome back to me and everyone!!!
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Stucked in my own throat / Garganta dolorosa

Muddy / Lodoso

Remember my young days, building houses and castles of bricks and sticking them together with mud...I thought they would resist for ages. And leaving my boots inside to play barefoot in the muddy pool...:)

Mind-stories

Time to take a breath

If someone was wondering why I didn't put anymore drawings these last two days. First : I really couldn't find the time to relax and draw and second : My energy has took a flight with me and since yesterday I'm feeling very sick. It can be some kind of flue but I think rather that I was eating something wrong. So let's give time to my body to fight against the monsters inside...I'm preparing gallons of tea with lemon and I believe that tomorrow will be much better if I take some rest...meanwhile my lovely man made this experiment with camera movements and typographical elements in it...he is my energy!

Animated kids 2 / Niños animados 2

They made their own animation movie, my little artists :) and they were happy with it!
Don't search a huge plot or a very thrilling story...it's right from the heart, pure, clean and the idea of the children! :)

Discovered

Yesterday while strolling in the city I visited again my favourite magazine-store in Antwerp. And again I discovered another brand new magazine...made in The Netherlands and so usefull for people who feel that their mind is becoming to 'full'. Always thought that all those 'mindfulness'- books were just to neglect, but this magazine, his bright colours and design really can relax me and taking me back to another slower and mind liberating rythm...amazing what a Flow!

Lunch-bird / Ave del almuerzo

I just had this sandwich-paper, some leaves of mint I bought in the neighbour shop of the museum where I am guiding, Tipp-Ex to remove wrong dates in my diary and a black pen...so this is what came out of my hand...or let's say head... :) Is it a girl or a bird or a freeky 'thing'...it was just fun to make! :)

Out of Argentina

A nice picture made by Andrea of what she received after winning my first Giveaway in november 2009. So now a drawing is living his life also in Argentina!
Disfrutalo Andrea! Love Kathy!

One month / Un mes

A picture from exactly one month ago, me and lovely Sofie walking in the huge Brussels forest, south of the capital. The best we could do to end 2009 and start a new year all 4 of us, we and our Peruvian husbands together....

Melancholy / Melancolia

Deep inside, ejoying the coldness of the 'passed days' and dreaming of warm and sunny 'coming days'.... with some Gerbera-leaves to color my dreams
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Recordando el frio de los dias pasados y soñando de un futuro caliente y lleno de sol...

Morning

A new job / Un nuevo trabajo

Since this week I started as freelancer for the Rasa project. Rasa is an organisation that brings art-education to a very young audience. 7 Belgian artists are showing a masterpiece to the children, they will explore a new world with new materials, I'm guiding them trough the exposition and afterwards they can create their own masterpiece in the same room. It's so lovely to do, to guide them, to talk about art with children, to give them a new view on this huge world and the world of art in all of us!

Above you can see work from : Guy Rombouts , Lucie Renneboog and Tinka Pittoors

Delicious hours / Horas ricas

Coming home after a new day full of marvellous experiences I really wanted to cook something very delicious for my also hardworking husband. Cooking is a kind of destressing for me, yin and yang, zen and so many more...creating with other materials, I love it and he loves me :)
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Sales / Remate

If there is something that makes me mad...then it must be this time of 'sales'...still some days to go. It's a kind of braintwister for every soul...it gives us the feeling we have to, although we can't or we don't want it! This is what made me happy yesterday! 1 euro, shiny, pink and just soooo ready for Spring I am now!
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Dreams / Sueños

So many dreams for this new year...let's make reality of them!
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Tantos sueños para este año nuevo. Es tiempo para empezar a realizarlos!

Without end / Sin fin

Most of the time I start a drawing and finish it also directly...this one is an example that I never will finish. Something doensn't fit and I cannot find the inspiration to finish it...and will not touch it again, not very soon...may'be never again :), but thought it was honest to share it with you!
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Animated kids / Niños animados

After I tried it by myself it's finally time to check it out with the kids on school. The puppets are ready and we tried our first animations together.

For the result we need some more lessons, but when it's finished I will show it here and of course on my other blog : El dibujo del niño, where I put the results of my weekly sessions on school, have fun watching them, comments are very welcome overthere.

Arrived / Llegado

They arrived!!! Some samples from the postcards that are made of my drawing for the Boomerang-contest. These cards will be spread over pubs, restaurants and public places where peoples can pick them away just for free. Everybody can send his creation and hope to be selected by the Boomerang - team. If so, then it depends of the votes on your image...the most voted image is the winning card! I was the winner in december 2009 with this image! Happy to receive finally the result so now just let's keep our eyes open to find one or many more out there and pick it away if you like it!:) Give me a sign if you find one! (Only in Belgium )
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De kaartjes zijn er! Gisteren een pakketje opgestuurd gekregen! Mooi geprint en wel een fijn gevoel dat mijn tekening nu weidverspreid zal worden over het land!
Iedereen kan zijn creatie insturen en iedereen kan winnen als je genoeg stemmen krijgt! Dankzij al die stemmen maak ik nu een vreugdedansje!!! Merci dus aan iedereen voor elke stem!
Hopelijk komen ze naar jullie zelf toe of bots je op een mooie dag op mijn kaart!

Dat is dan de ultieme beloning!

Superdank!

It's over...

It's all finished for this year...time to put the decoration another 11 months upstairs and to search a nice place in the garden for the tree, nooooo, he is not loosing like this drawed one...just in my imagination...:)

Making of...a little drawing

Private concert at home!

by the lovely Oona on the kazoo and Ole on the guitar!!!

The weight of words / El peso de palabras

Workshopping

Be my guest in the museum !

Received some pictures taken a while ago when I was guiding in a wonderful museum in Antwerp : Plantin Moretus. This was the house of the first printmakers in the world! Their books are spread over the wide world! I'm grateful to be part of the team there! What a spirit! Everyone who visit one day Antwerp has to see this with his/her own eyes!
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'Lap'-Walk / La caminata del 'Lap'

This is only a small experiment...a result of our 'lazy' sunday :)...Thanks to my Javi on who I always can count for the editing of the little videos. Don't search a huge story behind this movements of this little puppet, we are learning to animate some cut-outs...and the most important thing is that we have fun with it, lots of fun!
In dutch we call the northern tribes of europe, the Sami : Lappen...therefore my title...the walk of the sami, just sounds short and good in dutch, enjoy the 'Lap'-walk.
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Sólo un pequeño experimento. El resultado de nuestro domingo...Gracias a mi Javi que me ayuda siempre a hacer estos videos. No esperes encontrar un cuento en esta animacion, estamos aprendiendo nomas a animar unos simples papelitos...lo mas importante es que disfrutamos mucho de crear todo esto, demasiado mucho!
Un 'Lap' en Neerlandes es una persona del norte de Europa...los ultimos aborigines ahí. Se llaman 'Sami' originalmente, pero 'Lap' suena bueno para mi, disfrutalo!

Experimental sunday

Trying again some stop-motion and preparing myself for the next lessons on wednesday and saturday with my little students....or...another way to live a lazy sunday :)
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Hoy dia hemos intentado hacer otra vez más un stop-motion. Como preparacion para mis lecciones de la proxima semana pero tambien para divertirnos un poco este 'domongo'! :)

Confined / Confinada

Tajine-day

I discoverd my Tajine that was hidden in the basement. Some day a friend gave it to me as a gift because she never used it...so It was stored very savely but since some weeks finally it got my attention. I just tried a recipe out of Oriental Basics (paperback ▪ Cornelia Schinharl ▪ The House of Books ▪ 2005) and after the second preparation of it I'm sure that this Tajine wouldn't get the change to disapear again in the basement! It's sooooo tasty and incredible delicious!

Olimpia

Still some cards are travelling around the world to their destination and for every card there is waiting another home. My friend Laura from Spain sended me this picture! Olimpia Jr. is showing us her private card :)

I love it to see my work in other homes over the world and I hope they can bring the emotion I feel when I'm making it!

Graicas amiga!!!

It's the perfect picture for this cat-blog!

Perforated / Perforado

My weekly session of needles...since one month. Lucky I am that they can bring life again in my sleeping leftside of my body. A horrible feeling that's dying finally...
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Snowy Love

The end of the vacation here in Belgium for all the kids. Time to say hello to school again tomorrow...but not without the creation of the last snowman of this vacation. I remember many vacations in my youth without any snow...so the cilds of today can be very very happy with it...but rather they choose hanging in front of the television or playing brainless games on the pc... Oh right, I am the one that's getting old :)

Party's are over...

After to much food and drinks I feel myself like a whale...only the sofa can bring me joy and a home made lemon-eucalyptus-green- tea can give me some power...to watch a movie on tv...happy to start 2010 but still not totally ready for it, having the partyblues.

Happy New Year! / Feliz Año Nuevo!

It's freezing outside and warm inside, the new year started with some sunshine...so let's hope this year will bring so many more then the year before and that was already quite wonderful! It feels such great to have the opportunity to make kind of a new start...I'm ready for it and I hope for you the same! So many wishes for everyone! Let's live 2010!
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