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 need a studio one day

my kitchen sink...(is it called sink? this place you don´t use when you have a dishwasher?)

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 ♥

my new video

this took much too long but finally i uploaded a new art video on you tube

my editor @cherubimu told me it took  two hours of rendering for a minute of film.

he created the city with the programme google sketch up . there is a version for free download .

after he created the locations he added my artworx to the rooms and walls of the place.

the pictures are mostly from my DIY ArtBookProject but also feature pictures that will be in the next issue

of the DIY ArtBookProject. i have some ideas and i have a dear friend contributing with words again.

more about that later.

the music in this video is from the US band The Mercury Veil

they gave me the permission to use theyr song “Steeples” for my video and currently

i´m working on album artwork for them.

i hope you enjoy it

♥  thanx to @cherubimu for all the work on the video and @destrophiliac for the music

The DIY ArtBookProject is online now!

http://natascha-artworx.webs.com/apps/webstore/products/show/992355

UPDATE june 17,2010: the DIY Art Book is not available at the moment. if you want one
you have to contact me via: service dot natascha at gmail dot com .

my first interview

ok, some news first.

i´m featured artist at silverthorn press in the category "outside the frame"

http://www.silverthornpress.com/id72.html

that´s a big honour and it was my first interview as an artist. so it was my personal milestone.
so i hope you all visit silverthorn press because it is an awesome website full of fairies, vampires and other mystical things.

The DIY ARt Book Project #1

29.06.09 - untitled/ unfinished & screwed

canvas board 50cm x 50cm

acrylic paint

g & d merch- thank you Julie!

look what Julie send me...real mail...amazing!!!
UPDATE:
go and visit Gossip [&] the devil and read what Julie writes about the DIY Art Book Project, i think she pretty much nailed it http://www.devilgossip.com/2009/10/30/you-own-all-that-is-diy-the-burden-and-blessing-of-being-an-artist/

make a donation- receive a gift !

well, i wanna make some give aways for you. so if you are interested in my art and want some of it, a print, buttons and other cool stuff (surprise) all i need is a donation that i can ship it to you. i just shipped a piece to california

for you to know: i live in germany , so shipping a print like the one above to the united states will cost 6,- € ...or about...google sais: 8,3742 US$. so let..s say 8,50$. your donation should cover the shipping and material costs... but feel free to support me, the more donations i get, the more goodies i can create and include into the give aways. i also do custom art, i need photos to to that. contact me

you find the pay pal button here at the sidebar

love and peace and art... natascha ♥ if i get enough donations i am able to produce poster prints, that are bigger than usual paper size. so...participate, you won..t regret it...

me @ work

new stuff i work @...at or on?

chemtrails

printing cards

little red riding hood watercolor wip

i hate when that happens

Fallen Angel (work in progress)

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music in the backround by COSIOMUSIC

http://www.myspace.com/cosiomusic

painting/ fallen angel

when i was 13

i found a folder with old drawings i made back when i was 13 years old at school...whe had a project week at the zoo...you can imagine how much i loved that.

black wings

under construction

under construction under construction
under construction

spreadshirt!

buy @ my spreadshop!

us/int:
http://natascha-artworx-usa.spreadshirt.com/us/US/Shop/
deutschland/eur:
http://natascha-artworx.spreadshirt.net/de/DE/Shop

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some (clickable) logos...

a forgotten place

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

it is still under construction
but you can already view a lot of images i have
never posted before...

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

from hamburg to new york city

read this http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=50777230&blogId=479674157
ain´t that cool?

TOO HOT 4 MY SPACE

this is so funny... i drew a mermaid and it was deleted from my my space album...seconds after i posted it!!!

it was "violating the therms" LOL

so i post my stuff here now... i´ll keep you updated.






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find me!

i´m excited !!! go to this page and find my banner!!!

this is so cool, i can´t believe it!!!

you must also listen to chris sauters music.
i love it !!!...it feels like i have an ipod in my brain...
i can´t get these songs out of my head.

graveArt sketch

this is a sketch inspired by a photography by nightsun. the photo was taken at the graveyard ohldorf in hamburg/germany. she told me she did spend four hours there and did not see everything she wanted to, yet. this place is very big, like a park full of angels...