Summer projects
Around June a new summer series took shape. I started playing with watercolors, line drawing and abstract shapes after an interesting experimental doodle during a long phone call. These are small works of art on 14,5 x 20,5cm paper - here are some finished pieces of this ongoing series:
Another big project that took all summer was that I committed to working through Julia Cameron’s 12 week course “The Artist’s way”. This probably deserves a blog post for itself. It sparked SO many ideas and new ways of being, but most importantly, it helped me to get back to a regular painting practice. It’s probably the best book on creativity I have ever read.
Snapshot of my studio this summer. Sunflowers, Sini the cat and a big painting I was working on.
100x100cm, acrylic on canvas, work in progress
close up of the layers, 100x100cm acrylic on canvas by Tanja Zinkl
One thing I am always interested in is finding different surfaces to paint on! I got lucky and was offered some birch wood, that was turned into a lot of surfaces for painting, look at this:
Lots of space for creativity!
Many mandalas in the making!
A finished piece. Acrylic on wood.
There are only a few finished pieces yet, and lots more in the making - more info coming soon as I finish more of these paintings on wood!