Winter Witch

Yes, I used a coloring page for this witch, simply because I wanted to focus on working with my liquid watercolour paints. I am using Ecoline watercolour ink made by Royal Talens from the Netherlands, and Colorex, made by Pebeo, a French brand. 

I love the intensity of these liquid paints, and I am still highly surprised what you can get out of a drop of these paints. You get wonderful washes! 

Practising painting with liquid watercolours

Some days ago I watched a video about practising flat watercolour washes with coloring pages. I felt so inspired that I grabbed my colorex and my ecoline liquid watercolours and a coloring page I had printed out a long time ago. I used my lightpad to transfer the line drawing to my watercolour paper and began to paint, using only one colour, the colour "night" from colorex. The painting process was very focussed and even meditative - and I decided to do more of these practice paintings!

Little blue snake

This snake was coloured with markers and coloured pencils. I did the line drawing myself with some references from the web. Isn't he cute?

Playing with Colours in Gimp

This photo belongs to a series of digitakuted diapositives. I played a bit with the colour saturation menu in gimp. 

Hill and Chapel in the Provence

This photo was taken many years ago when my husband and I were on vacation in the Provence in the South of France. At that time there were no digital cameras, and everybody was using a diapositive film. A few months ago I began to go through my diapositive collection and selected the ones I want to keep as digitalised photos. The above photo is one of them.

Beetles on a Mug

I drew this beetle some time ago with alcoholbased markers and thought it would make a nice design on some products in my Zazzle shop. Mugs are the first products with this new design, but other products will be following.

Pink Beetle Mug
by ullahennig

Happy little Flower

Isn't it cute, this little flower character? I painted it with alcoholbased markers on drawing board. I saved the line drawing so that I can create some colour variations and some variations of her ( I think of this little flower as a "her") facial expression.

Landwehrkanal Berlin

Berlin is a city with many green spots and much water - waterways like the Spree and the Havel or the Landwehrkanal which flows through the middle of Berlin. From Easter on you can see ships on the water - of course with many tourists on them but also some Berlin people as well who enjoy gliding through the city.

Painting with Markers on Coated Paper

Coated paper is paper which has been covered with some chemical stuff which makes the paper more or less water resistant. That means that the ink or paint is not going into the paper but stays on the surface. So marker ink can be blended and you can get some in-between-colours.