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Hi 🙋🏻‍♀️🇩🇪
I am finding color in life by means of art, poetry & music. Always learning...meanwhile working & raising 3 girls, a 🐈‍⬛ & a husband. 😊

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🎨 Hello, I am Elly,

Welcome to my page and welcome to 2026 ✨

I am a hobby painter, mom with a capital M, wife, tired optimist, sad enthusiast, cat snuggler, cloud watcher, star gazer, recovering romantic, healing inner child, poet, singer, dancer and observer of the mundane.

I spend half of my time being a responsible grown up, doing all the responsible grown up things and half of it in my head, talking to myself and others. 😅

Last year has certainly been eclectic. I struggled with prioritizing creative and dreaming time for myself because my focus leaned a bit more towards the tangible grown up side of life, like changing roles at work and building new relationships and a stable work environment.

My children are always a priority, ever growing and amazing the hell out of me daily. Protecting my private relationships from the turbulences of my inner self, has been a priority for many years now and often leaves me needing more rest and calm than I like, but I soldier on. 💪🏻

To the outside observer, this inner tension often presents itself as a sudden shift between being very approachable for some time and then seeming aloof at others. To me, however, it is more like pressing the pause button of the recording of life. When I hit record again, it feels to me like I am picking up right where I left off. So to my art friends out here I want to say that I am always around and I see you. I am just not always in the position to step out of my resting place to interact as often or as intensive as this platform often demands. 😌

What do I want for this year? Feel joy, shed the loneliness that comes with having a „difficult“ external interaction mechanism, leave the past, don’t fret the future, be enough for myself and Elsa it, the best I can.

….and experience many midday moons, though they are often so elusive. 🌕 by @keepfindingcolour

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9 months ago

„𝙃𝙤𝙣𝙤𝙧 𝙖𝙢𝙤𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙨“

Sometimes the world can seem upside down, doesn’t it? 😅

I kind of feel like this with this painting. It’s an odd perspective that at the same it intrigues. It pushes me away and pulls me in like the expressionist‘s art I have been discovering as of late. (See „the white cat“ by Franz Marc and „Bedroom in Arles“ by van Gogh). It is not my impressionistic preference in form but in color and it didn’t turn out as I wanted in some aspects yet in others it is better than I was aiming for. 😅

#worldwatercolormonth #worldwatercolormonth2024
#catinwatercolor #catpainting by @keepfindingcolour

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2 years ago

This year started off with a lot of personal struggles. My mother fell down stairs and broke her arm in three places while she was babysitting my kids. Her subsequent operations went very well and she is recovering now but those weeks with her in the hospital were hard. Her mortality became apparent and all the feelings of uncertainty and fear along with it. Parallele an especially nasty cold held its grip on my family for weeks and now, just on Monday my kid’s last great grandmother died while they were there to spend the winter school holiday with their grandparents.

There has been so little time to create all that I want to put out here and I just wanted to express that even though I am not active on my grid on a regular basis, I am certainly active in the background liking your posts and enjoying all y’all art. ☺️ by @keepfindingcolour

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3 years ago

Spending a long weekend in Vienna with my sister and we are enjoying an amazing workshop with @alpay_efe, an amazing artist who is teaching us to trust the process. This is our warm up painting and it this only the third time I have ever used oil paint but I am so happy with the result. The workshop is sponsored by @rembrandtartistpaint, @rembrandtdeutschland, @royaltalens and I couldn’t be happier with the paint.

Looking forward to the next two days as we will tackle a face, not literally of course. 😅 by @keepfindingcolour

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4 months ago

Still the one. 🎨

Awwww, it was so satisfying to paint with watercolor again. I felt more sure about the subject since I had practiced it with pastels and I really enjoyed trying out the different colors. Even in the very strong ugly phase, I stayed calm, dried the paper instead of overworking it wet. 😌 It just felt good. Ok, so I might be done with this motive, now. 😁 by @keepfindingcolour

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5 months ago

“𝑾𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒍𝒊f𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒅𝒆, 𝒅𝒐𝒏’𝒕 𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒏𝒔.” 𝑼𝒏𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘𝒏

I went with much warmer colors that, in the light of the evening lamp, almost had looked too warm but now I see the appeal. The first picture I tried to colour match the reference picture but that turned out too cool when I looked at it in the morning.

Ok. Time to by some pastel fixative and more mats.
Also, get used to this image, I have a feeling I will paint a couple more for practice. 😊

#lemons #lemonsart #lemonsinart #lemonstilllife by @keepfindingcolour

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5 months ago

“𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒍𝒘𝒂𝒚𝒔 𝒕𝒐𝒅𝒂𝒚.” -𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑾. 𝑺𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒚

I am trying to find a medium that allows me to quickly practice drawing and pleases my aesthetics preferences. I see potential in soft pastels if only my kids don’t use up all my material before I get a chance at them. 😅 They have already used up half of the pastel mat.

The reference image is from Freepik.com by @keepfindingcolour

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6 months ago

𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐚𝐝𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐝𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐦𝐲 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐝…

The last days I have shamelessly neglected the basic exercises but instead got curious about pencils. I did miss color!!! 😅 Before even reading up on wax vs oil based colored pencils and what is blending and polishing and burnishing and testing if I could really use that old baby oil or better the colorless blender from my alcohol marker, I just started playing around and it felt really good. Those quick wins of figuring out the basics on how to draw fur in a way that works for me simply felt like a big win. ☺️ by @keepfindingcolour

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10 months ago

𝑰’𝒅 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒎𝒚𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇 𝒃𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒗𝒆
𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒆𝒕 𝑬𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒔 𝒔𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒍𝒚…

…but sometimes it turns too fast. I couldn’t draw every day this week but I did some practices that I felt like doing when I had the opportunity. I even did some drawings on the paper-less that my husband forgot at home and the freedom to erase and paint in layers was interesting. I totally see the allure of drawing digitally 🫣.

Doing the drawing practices make me feel like I am taking control of the future because I know I will be better able to create what is waiting inside me. I want to stay in this phase for a while, doodling, practicing, playing… but no plan for a flushed out piece. 😊

Hope everyone is doing well 🌲🔜🎄 by @keepfindingcolour

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10 months ago

“𝐁𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐭,
𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝,
𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐭.” - 𝐊𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐥 𝐆𝐢𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐧 -

This is not a feel good post. Please be aware and skip if you don’t feel in a safe mental space.

Yesterday was the International Day for Eliminating Violence against Women and even though I could not carve out the time to draw and post yesterday, I am doing it now. Not only is it personal for me because I am a mother of two girls but because I AM a women who has experienced violence. Albeit it being in the dark grey area of the 90s mentality of what was still considered typical behavior to be expected from young men to say and do to young women in private or at parties, with or without alcohol, it was violence, it was multiple, most times physical and all times mental.

Never let anyone tell you that they don’t know a women that was ever sexually abused. Nagging, begging, making drunk, shaming belittling and gaslighting to get a person into bed is sexual assault. It does not have to be a violent assaulted, attacked or raped by a stranger .
It you think you don’t know any woman that experienced this, then it is only because they haven’t told you.

Awareness for this issue is all I am seeking with this post.

#internationaldayofeliminationofviolenceagainstwomen #nomeansno by @keepfindingcolour

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10 months ago

„𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒇𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒌𝒚 𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒓…“

I have to admit, I hit a wall this year. For a long time I thought that I painted less because I had started a new job with longer hours and my family needed more attention in some aspects but the truth is, inspiration left me hanging. 😅 I didn’t feel the spring, I didn’t feel the summer, I didn’t feel the autumn. Even those times which I did paint this year felt forced and aimless. I did not enjoy creating as much as I wanted to. And in the times in which I was inspired, I simply lacked the skills to materialize it. We had a pact, my muse and I, I make time for art, and art calms me down and fulfills me, but this year I realized that I didn’t have all the time to create what I want, so I will level the ground and start again at the basics. It is time to learn skills in art that I had neglected. So here we go. Day 1! by @keepfindingcolour

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a year ago

I can’t believe I let the last round of #skieswithjt hosted by @jthomasart_ go by without having contributed with a single painting. 🙈
This gorgeous reference came from Maggie (@margaretkovalart) and it definitely gave me the run around. 😂
I tried several times to get dark but distinctive clouds and I still struggle keeping definition with darks and not having hard edges. But anyway, in retrospect I loved diving into that and making something I am not totally happy about. 😁 by @keepfindingcolour

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