Piece Of Wood

Hey guys!

Today I woke up with the feeling that everything was great and beautiful (50 shades of being a teenager: loving everything or hating everything) and I wanted to do something with that. I wanted to create! When my mom went out for lunch I started looking what I could use and found a piece of wood. Perfect! 

I put on some music (my 28 hour during playlist, yay) and started....

While I was painting, I started to think about the meaning. I decided it would represent a person with all their different sides. Cute sides, dark sides, happy sides. Mom just thinks it's a beautiful piece of wood and that's okay too :). 

Since it was lunchtime, I took a little break :)

Painting selfie!

Worked with a lot of different colours.

Here is the result!

Inspired by my piece of wood, I started to paint my phone. But it didn't last for long :( So I did it again with some nailpolish, including topcoat, and now it's all shiny. I still like it, it's more me than only black.

What do you think of the wood and phone? Oh, and merry christmas everyone!

xoxo

Book of quotes

Hey there!

Here in the Netherlands you have this party called Sinterklaas. It's a bit like Christmas: people give eachother presents. A few weeks before Sinterklaas I started screaming everywhere that I wanted notebooks. Maybe I should have done that a little less... I got 3 notebooks and a lot of note papers. Oops! But you can never, never, never have enough of them!

I'm already using two of the notesbooks and I use one of them for quotes. I call it 'Book Of Quotes' (it sounds a bit like Book Of Shadows :p). Look how cute it is! I got this one from my mom.

I think quotes are also art. I just love them. They're so beautifully written and most of the time so true. Here are some of my favourites.

This defines life! Also a nice book by the way :)

Some quotes I found on tumblr.

Movie quotes.

And some song lyrics I really like.

Do you guys know some nice quotes I can put in? Please tell me! There's still a lot of space in this book! 

xoxo Maaike

Scarab Beetles

Hey guys!

I'm really busy these days, so I don't have a lot of time to do creative stuff *cries*. But last week I made two bracelets, which I'd like to show you :)

Mum cleaned up and found these scarab beetles. I love them really much! They're souvenirs from Egypt (I went there when I was seven and I kind of forgot about them). 

So yeah, I made these bracelets! One for me and one for my penpal. She sent me a really cute bow back :)

And since I was bored in class, I drew this :)

I'll really try to post more soon! 

xoxo Maaike

Exposition

Hi guys!
Today I had an exposition with school. Where? Well, in a retirement. And that caused some problems...

We needed to paint ourselves. Not like how we're looking now, but how we thought we'd look when we're 80.
You know, that was a bit scary. I know I'm getting older every day, but 80... That's pretty old!
I worked on it for weeks and this is the result!

I know, I'm scary! Those staring eyes, brr!

But there was another assigment. To make everything a little less old, we needed to draw or paint a big sillhouette. ''A young, strong and powerful person''. I don't know why, but I thought of an angel. And here comes the problem.

When I think of an angel, I don't think about those cute blonde girls (the mainstream angels). I think about black. And that's something eldery don't like.

Okay, I'll admit it, she's a bit scary. But I'm still mad my angel isn't allowed to be with her friends in the retirement. She's still in our art class :(

But there will be another exposition and there you can all see my angel in real life :)

If you want to see my and other's paintings, they're in retirment Croonematen in Doetinchem at the moment.

xoxo Maaike

Painting: Nada

This weekend I decided to paint my friend Nada. Here you can see her in her halloween outfit:

 I really like her hair and make-up here. I don't paint much, but I thought this hair would be prettier if I used paint.

I've made Nada before, as you can see here. She used to have blue hair (now it's black) and that was so cool :) The lyrics are from the song Fallen Angels by Black Veil Brides

 xoxo Maaike

First post

Hey everyone!
So, this will be my artblog. From now on, I'll post my drawings, paintings and more here, but it's a bit too dark now to take pictures.
I really don't know how to use that 'about me' page, so I'll tell you something about myself.
Hi, I'm Maaike and I'm fifteen years old. I live in the east of the Netherlands. I love symphonic metal and rockbands and you'll probably see a lot of drawings with them on it here! Some other things I love are food, playing the piano, being creative, writing, reading...
If you want to know more about me, you can always ask me in the comments!
If you want to follow me, here are my social media accounts:
www.twitter.com/missmandarinos
www.instagram.nl/deliciouslikeapear
www.green-apple-tea.tumblr.com
(as you can see, I also like fruit :) )
I hope you enjoy my blog!
Oh by the way, I know my English isn't very good. I really want to get better, so if you see some mistakes, tell me!
xoxo Maaike