Another cute little creature

This little creature was not planned - it was born in the process of playing around with gradients in Inkscape. Just now I am deeply in love with this open source vector software. I am continuously learning, which is fun. 

 

Just playing with gradients in Inkscape

Not too long ago I hated the gradient tool in Inkscape because every time I tried to do something with it it did something else - or nothing at all. However I am a quite stubborn person, so I kept on trying. And then, suddenly, I realized that I could actually handle it. Don't get me wrong, I am far from perfect with it, but at least I know what I am doing and more and more I have fun playing with it. Now I am a bit of a traditional artist as well - I love to paint abstracts with acrylics, gouache or watercolour, even markers. So I am now experimenting how to do abstracts with Inkscape and the gradient tool. Again, I am far from perfect. But I am having fun!

 

Another cute owl

 This was a colouring exercise - I used my gouache paints with this cute little owl. I found this owl as  colouring page on the internet, so I could totally focus on the colours. I once watched a video where the artist recommended doing that for getting better with watercolours - but why not doing the same thing with gouache paints?

Another little monster

At the moment Inkscape is my favourite tool to do illustrations. This cute green monster vector drawing is based on a pen and ink drawing. I scanned the drawing and vectorized it, not without changing a bit here and there. 

 

Church in Italy

This is another diaslide from my father's dia collection. It was taken in the 60s, during a vacation in the northern part of Italy. At that time Italy was the place to go to for Germans - the sea, the special food, the atmosphere. You had to cross the Alps, driving along the twisting roads up and down.

 

Mermaid

I had worked on this mermaid in Inkscape in 2020. However I was not satisfied with the result, but I still had it on my harddrive. Just a few days ago I decided to give it a new try. I noticed how much about Inkscape I had learnt in these two years. And I learnt that it is important to keep these files even if one wants to throw them into the bin.