A life lived for art is never a life wasted.

I'm not sure if you know this about me, but I have a fascination for Damien Hirst. One of my dreams is to go to a full on Damien Hirst exposition.

So when I saw some of his work was shown in the Netherlands, I had no choice but to go there and see it.

They were 'Photogravures' of For the love of God , other skulls and butterflies, all signatured by Damien Hirst. It was amazing. I got just this one step closer to seeing For the love of God ~I would almost go as far as saying my favourite Damien Hirst artwork (but I don't do favourites)~ in real life. 

This exposition was very small, so my mum, my sister and I chose to also take a look at the rest the museum had to offer. 

This was a good idea. We sawa lot of great things. One of them being an exposition on Mondrian & De Stijl, where we saw the Victory Boogie Woogie the famous unfinished Mondrian piece. 

There also was an exhibition that showed artworks from unknown artists. Regular humans could submit their artworks in the theme 'Light' amd a jury chose some works to display in the museum. This makes for a great variety in art. There was photography, normal paintings, mixed media art, sculptures, a little bit of everything. A lot of inspiration for me. I loved it. I saw some things I have to write down to not forget, for they maybe be useful later in time for school...

Have a nice life,

Xoxo

Winnie.

Ps. Please, if you have the chance and are interested in art, go to a museum. It brings inspiration and creativity and there is so much greateness out there. Something of every taste.

~photo's were taken with cameraphones, hence the quality. Taken by me and my mum.~

Welcome to your new family | Albums.

I went to Nijmegen again. Nijmegen is a great city in the Netherlands with a great recordstore. No way I will ever skip that one when I'm in this city.
So of course, I got some albums.

First of, I got Humbug form the Arctic Monkeys. This was the album I was mostly going for this time. Since I knew I was going, I told myself to get that one. And I did. The album id great. It contains Crying Lightning, something that makes it undeniable allready. But it also has great songs like Pretty Visiters and Cornerstone. Very happy to finally own it.

Next I got Save Rock and Roll by Fall out Boy. I've loved this album for a while now and I finally got it. Not really a lot to say here, I told you about my love for this album when I put it on number 4 in my 2013 top 10 albums. So it's just good to hold it in my hands now.

Then, I found Woodkid's The Golden Age. I think I wrote about this one as well in my 2013 top 10, so you'll know I love it. It's just a great album to come to peace with and now I have it standing on my shelf between the rest. So great.

There you have it. My last new buys. Very happy, as you can probably tell. I love just wondering around a recordstore and finding the little treasures you're looking for. Always makes my day.

Have a nice life,
Xoxo
Winnie.

Watercolor. | DBTC 27

No, this wasn't planned out. I know I happened to post something about my DBTC project a few days ago, but today I just got inspired and made something and I got confident enough to also post it on my blog.

This week I decided to experiment with watercolor. For a while now, I've been following the artist Allison Kunath, who is great with watercolor and I really love her work. 

Recently, I got myself a block of watercolor paper, to encourage myself to try things with that as well. I finally did it and I'm so happy with myself.

I made a circle filled with red, orange, yellow colors and I'm so happy with how it turned out. This is the kind of thing Allison Kunath makes and I was able to kind of do that as well. So, so, so happy! 

If you want to see what Allison Kunath makes, I will link you to her website. I knew what kind of technique she uses to make these artworks from this video she shared a while ago.

Have a nice life,

Xoxo

Winnie.

What is all this about? Go to this blogpost and you can read all about the project I've started for this year!

Don't mind me, just having a chat.

A while ago, my all-time-favourite youtuber danisnotonfire ~Dan Howell~ uploaded a video that touched the very core of my heart and left a mark that sometimes forces me to watch it again. Because he might as well have just said it was about me. The relatability (is that a word? Now it is.) of this video is immense. For me, at least.

In the video he tells us that he talks to himself. And by talking to himself he means having imaginary conversations and walking around the house mumbling to yourself, making everyone around you think you're crazy.

I am not alone. That's the only thing I could think the first time I watched it. His conclusion at the end of the video just tells my story.

So, if you're wondering what the hell I mean by 'talking to myself', you think "there's more people doing this!" or you just want to watch a nice video, follow this link and enjoy. You'r welcome.

Danisnotonfire - I talk to myself.

Have a nice life
Xoxo
Winnie

This tells my story. Unbelievable.

Update. | DBTC

If you have read my pevious blogposts, you may be wondering what the hell is going on with my Don't Break the Chain 2014 project. Well, I'm proud to tell you it is actually going pretty good. I just have not taken the time to blog about it.

At the moment I'm on an 11 week continuous streek of drawing. I had some struggles in the first few months, which resulted in 2 missed weeks because I wasn't completely sure where I wanted to go with this. But now I get it. I'm much more relaxed with this project now. 

I originally started drawing from tutorial videos to try and learn new techniques, but I let that go. It wasn't working for me. For some reason I was looking up against doing the drawings every week, which resulted in a quick drawing on sunday night to at least have something. But that was not how I wanted jt to be. So I changed my own rules.

Now I just draw whatever I feel like. If I happen to feel like drawing a tutorial, I will. But of I feel like sitting in a park and drawing the gees I see in front of me, I will do that. I have even done some handlettering now. 

I'm really happy with where I am now with my project and like this I really don't mind to keep going for the rest of the year. 

Have a nice life,

Xoxo

Winnie.

Why I bought Knee Socks.

It's time for another music post.

So, a screenshot of my top-8 artists on Last.fm.
The exciting thing about this screenshot is one new band that joined not so long ago: Arctic Monkeys.

4 weeks I got back into them after I saw their performance at Pinkpop fest 2014. I already really liked their album AM, but never looked any further then that. Not until a month ago.
They were ~in my humble opinion~ so, so, so good at Pinkpop, that I had to hear more. So I went to Spotify and had a listen.

This innocent little listen resulted in ~at least~ a week of not listening to ANYTHING else but the Arctic Monkeys. (Ok, it was way more then a week. I would almost go as far as saying it were 2 weeks, but I'm not too sure about that. (Let's just say a pretty long time.))

Not very surprising, it didn't take very long until they were in my top-15. Then my top-10. And with so much joy, I watched them climb up in my top-8 up until the point they are at now. I don't see them moving up any time soon, so I'm happy they reached this point. (altough I wouldn't be surprised if they did climb up, seeing how much I'm STILL listening.)

Of course, with all this listening comes a 'most listened to song'. And not just a little bit. ~Don't get me wrong, I love So many of their songs and I would say "DON'T MAKE ME CHOOSE FAVOURITES" but this is what the numbers say and I'm not complaining~ It even went as far as All-Time number 12 in one short month:

Crying Lightning. Welcome to your new family.

So, why díd you buy knee socks then, Winnie? you may be wondering.
Well, to any Arctic Monkeys listeners amongst you, this will probably be very obvious, but there is a song called Knee Socks and I happen to really really like it and when I saw knee socks hanging in H&M I couldn't contain myself. I'm not sorry.

Have a nice life,
Xoxo
Winnie.

Arctic Monkeys