news! the girl of my life is almost done

i am going to work hard this weekend to finish it. it´s time!
last night i painted 3 hours straight to get over that stadium of painting where i was afraid of because there is so much that can go wrong. but it went well and i´m pretty happy with it. from now on it´ll be fun ...

hold on to your dreams- new gift cards + prints

i made some new items for my shop.

this design is actually an acrylic painting on canvas. see the work in progress here:

 http://natascha-blankpage.blogspot.com/2010/08/my-blog-is-my-sketch-bookwork-in.html .

you can go to my website and 

purchase them now :) 

http://natascha-artworx.webs.com/shop.htm

Stuttgart 21

what happened last thursday made and still makes me so angry...if you don´t know what Stuttgart 21 means, please read this article from NY Times.

Tens of thousands of protesters flooded the streets of Stuttgart in southwestern Germany on Friday chanting “Shame on you,” one day after the police used pepper spray, water cannons and tear gas to disperse crowds that had gathered to save centuries-old trees from being cut down, German news agencies reported. A confrontation between the police and protesters on Thursday that left about 130 demonstrators injured was the most heated flare-up in a months-old dispute between the government and local residents who oppose plans to build a modern transportation hub, called Stuttgart 21, that will eventually be linked to Europe’s high-speed rail system.
Newspapers across the country on Friday were filled with pictures of German police officers in riot gear and bloodied and wounded demonstrators, young and old. The incident, already a major political embarrassment to Chancellor Angela Merkel, has persuaded the opposition Green Party to call for national protests.-New York Times from October 1, 2010

my blog is my sketch book//work in progress

this is how far i got...work in progress...my blog is my sketch book...now i have to decide on more or other colors...

work in progress/the girl of my life

she really is the girl of my life...this painting is so big...will be a real challenge to ship this...oh my

i changed the backround colour from brounish-grey-white to greenish-grey-white and a tiny bit of blue.

the effect is that it seems like the backround colour changes in the different lights of the day...i am very happy about how this turns out.

now i´m adding the text ...by hand...real work...bought new brushes...and i so enjoy that kind of work.

i´ll give the girl a complete make-over...one more layer and then fine parts.

i´ll need more time to paint her skin than for anything else...skin is so difficult and i have so high standarts to myself...gonna be a challenge  i am looking forward to .

i´ll keep you updated.

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♥ natascha

awesome threesome

hi artlover ♥

on friday i bought some canvas, 30cm x 40cm and started three acrylic paintings

when the paint on the one dries i paint the other one and so on...very productive

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some of you know, 

i like to feed my inspiration thru the web 

i picked three photos of awesome girls who inspire me

and created three absolutely different pieces

like i said,they are not finished yet ...

my three girls (session 2)

(session 3)

(session 1)

(session 2)

(session 1)

(session 3)

session means night- because i only have time to paint at night...

they only come out at night ...hehehe
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2010 Natascha*Artworx

Amanda Floral Palmer

i found a twitpic photo of amanda palmer and it inspired me to paint.

i tryed something new, i painted it "ala prima".

learned on the web, that it means to finish a painting in one session.

so i did and it. took me 4 hours.
then i scanned the painting and emailed it to amanda palmer .

she then posted it to her twitpic account!

this is super cool and makes me very happy :)

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the GIRL painting//work in progress

more of the big canvas, click to enlarge

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a big ass canvas!!!

you can´t really see how big it is...it´s 120cm x 90cm

OK! this is a huge canvas i am painting for a customer...the work i did so far...

i think it´s time to reanimate this blogspot a little bit...so i start with a post that i wrote for my official homepage a few days ago. i hope you can stand my mourning...

looking back at the past 12 month i have to say: it was the hardest challenge i ever had in my life. i am not quite thru this valley of shit, but i see the light, i am almost there. life will be good again.

the shit started in may 2009, i got terrible pain in my back, so bad i wasn´t able to do my job at the kindergarden anymore. i went from doctor to doctor. they didn´t find what caused the pain. the pills they gave me where useless, the shots they gave me where doing nothing...the pain was not going away, it got worse. my leg was "out of order" i was hardly able to walk...and doctors told me it was psychosomatic.

hell! i don´t have this fucking pain in my brain! i went to the shrink but i felt so badly wrong sitting there with a guy who doesn´t really care about me...i have friends i can talk to, i thought , what am i doing here? sure i have some issues, but they are not related to my back.

then finally one doctor made a CT and found out that i have a very badly slipped disc in my spine that hurts the nerves...or so, i´m not a doctor...

this is it, my bad back:

i was kind of glad to know now what it was, to be absolutely sure that i´m not crazy or that i do not have cancer, because that was one of the scary thoughts wandering thru my brain...they don´t find out , what if i have cancer?

yes, stupid, i know....but this pain is so bad, really...like knifes cutting in your veins...even if you do not move...

well, then i had to go to surgery in november 2009. yes, gladly everything went well. thank god. the beast of pain was leashed.

now i´m recovering since then...a lot of shit also happened at my work...very complicated stuff, too much for the web and i´m not quite sureif i´m allowed to talk about it at all.

fact is, i am broke. hahaha, yes i know this is not new to you, but more broke than before which i didn´t know was possible but it is.

i hope to work until the end of this month i a new kindergarden with older kids i don´t have to lift up and carry around, i´m looking forward to it . i need some regular life now! a regular income. i lost so much money in the past month because i wasn´t able to work. yes health insurance is good here in germany, better than in some other places, but it´s still bad if you loose 200,- € or like now 400,- € every month.

but it will be better, i hope.

on the art side: i cancelled the childrens book project because my brain wasn´t able to create something nice and pure and innocent. my brain was to busy with unlikely stuff.

i will soon create a new DIY ArtBook together with my dear friend sunflowerdagger. it´s all in my brain but it´s not ready yet.

i need a new printer, my printer is too old.

i´ll paint a big canvas for a customer in the usa soon, i´m excited and i wanna start!!!

but i have no car so i still wait for a friends reply if she helps me to buy the huge canvas and transport it to my home...

the biggest challenge will the packing and shipping rbing, but later to that...

ignore typos and wrong english, i´m german ;)

i thank everyone who lifted me up with nice comments

and i thank everyone who supported and bought my art and trusted in me.

thank you from the bottom of my ♥

Fallen Angel (work in progress)

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music in the backround by COSIOMUSIC

http://www.myspace.com/cosiomusic