Freak out!

Mood swings.
I think everyone, especially teenagers, know them. One moment you're completely okay and then, out of the sudden, you're all sad and moody and don't want to do anything.
Well, today was exactly the opposite. I was really moody, because I was late for school and I studied 'for nothing', but in the afternoon I suddenly became happy. The weather was so nice and I just wanted to jump and scream and run around, but I also wanted to do something creative. That turned out like this:

I made this spotify playlist with happy music and then I started. Nothing organized, just putting random things on some canvas and don't think about it! I did everything in the garden, while wearing two sweaters and a scarf :)

The meaning of this is that you just have to freak out sometimes. For some people that means getting completely wasted in a club with loud dance music and for some people it's just having a little playbackshow in their garden while painting :)

How did you guys enjoy this good weather?
xoxo Maaike

Inspiration

Hey guys! Long time no see!

Today I want to tell you something about inspiration. I get inspired by many things, such as music, art, but also words people say or little things that I notice during the day.
I also get inspired by artist and someone who has really inspired me is Hannah Pixie Snowdon. She is one of the most reblogged faces on tumblr, but she's actually a tattoo artist and Bring Me The Horizon's singer Oliver Sykes' girlfriend.

  

 Hannah has a specific style of doodling that I really like, so I decided to draw something inspired by her style. It became this tattoo design. 

I really liked it, but I wanted to make it more in my own style, so I used more shadows in the next thing I drew, which is a bit inspired by this pic. 

Looking around for a nice dress, I found this pic on tumblr. I got the idea to use it for a flower and after some boring lessons, this was the result. 

As you can see, inspiration can be everything! You just have to add a little fantasy! 

Xoxo Maaike

It's in the little things

Hey guys!
Did you have a nice christmas and new year's eve? And did you survive your hangover?
In the holidays I always realize that you need to enjoy the little things. I don't know how that comes, but it's true. Everything is in the little things. Also creativity. So that's why I wanted to show you some little creative things.
Like this box I 'made' today. I wanted a place to put letters, diaries and cards in and I think this is the perfect thing!

Or things like this...

Creativity and happiness is in the smallest things.

Have a nice weekend!

xoxo Maaike

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