ellen's atelier

Ellen's atelier.

looking at the flowers

I often see one of Laura's cats sitting on the same spot in the garden. 

She always takes the same pose, with her back towards the grass.

It seems like she enjoys looking at the flowers.

ellen's place

Ellen, my neighbor who went to Norway, asked me to water her plants
while she's gone.
In her house, she left sticky notes with writings like; ""thank you", says
the plants" and "for the plant on the closet, you can stand on the table".
They make me smile.
I made some pictures of her place. It's not only beautiful, but also quite
fascinating.
She's a painter and now she studies shamanism.

monday

Finally it stopped raining and the sun came back. It was a beautiful 

summer's day evening.

On the first picture you see an artwork on my kitchen wall. I bought 

it in Japan. Sadly, I don't remember the name of the artist. There's 

no name written on the work either. (I added some more pictures of 

his studio in Tokyo.)

The picture in the middle, is a bowl of withered flowers. On the 

last picture you see the sky I saw from my window this evening 

and a macramé pot holder, which Katrien taught me how to make 

yesterday.

masks

It's still raining, so today I was surfing on the net. I came out on this 

inspiring blog, with pictures from Saul Steinberg.

They made me think of a lesson I gave to my students last year, 

paintings inspired on indigenous masks. I will do it over next year,

but with paper bags. 

I already made an example to show the students, as you see below :)

ramen

By incidence Elise and I passed this ramen restaurant. We were hungry 

and decided to go in and order some ramen. It was a good meal and 

nice sitting there.

elise's atelier

Yesterday I visited Elise's atelier. She has been a good friend since
academy. I always loved talking with her about art and painting.
Her new work is about writings and calligraphic characters.
Another recurring theme are the finger paintings made by monkeys.
Specially those from chimpansee Betsy, who received international
fame in the 50's.