Skill comes with practice – Update on Metroheads

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It’s all about daily practice! Skill comes with practice. In German this would be: “Übung macht den Meister”, in French “l’exercice fait le maître.
I heard this sentence very often from my mom and dad when I struggled while learning something and it [...]

Pictures of the exhibition “Women” – Exposition “FEMMES”

This is a piece of the Textile Art Series “Ancestormasks” which are part of an ongoing collective exhibition “FEMMES”, here in Paris. I just put up pictures of the exhibition, the artists and the vernissage (which took place last Wednesday) on our artists’ federation’s blog  SEIZIEM’ART
I have re-worked this piece here as I thought it [...]

Guarding Dragon for new website

NEWS: NEW WEBSITE IS UP AND RUNNING – ANDREA HUPKE DE PALACIO – painter, illustrator, textile artist – AM BUSY WITH LAST PREPARATIONS FOR TONIGHT’S OPENING OF OUR SHOW – WILL BE BACK WITH NEWS AS SOON AS I CAN – HAVE A GREAT WEDNESDAY – LOVE – ANDREA

How do you connect with your emotions?

  ©estandrea – Parisdreamtime 2010  
Yesterday I realized,  that I felt disconnected from my emotions.
Which means that I feel disconnected from my Self.
It’s working on all this administrative stuff which does that, plus the work on a very technical, “calculated” painting. Yesterday I talked about this painting with Kim, who suggested that  putting aside the painting and do [...]

Lots of Little Panda-Bears

For those who already can see the Spring arrive with pink blossoms: It’s still Winter here.
Mothers still have to bundle up their babies, so that they stay warm and cozy. Which is why they often look to me like cute little Panda Bears:)
I’m caught up with preparations for the upcoming collective show here in Paris, [...]

Of Men, Mice and Artists

©estandrea – Parisdreamtime 2010
Happy Saturday.
It’s cold in Paris, I just put my nose out of the window for the first time today. Brrr, just wanted to say hello and wish you a nice weekend, whether you are here and there in the snow or in the sunny and warm part of the world. If you [...]

The Floating World of Marks

©estandrea – Parisdreamtime – 2010

Soon we in the Northern hemisphere will wake up from Hibernation!
In the meantime, have a nice weekend,
Andrea

“THERE IS NO SHORTCUT” colorstudy

“There is no shortcut”
I have heard this several times in the last couple of months and for now it is my first motto. There are others but this one is the first one, reminding me that I have to practise again and again every skill I want to learn, and excel in.
Another motto could be [...]

Watercolor Painting – Vue du Pont Alexandre III. et du Pont de la Concorde

©estandrea – Parisdreamtime 2010
On a dark and cold morning in early April this view was offered to me.
I was on the upper open deck of a sightseeing double-decker tour through Paris with German friends who had come to visit me in Paris. My friends and I were frozen and dishevelled, but happy because it didn’t [...]

Nuns, Names’n Noses – The Holy Sisters of Nowhere

©estandrea – Parisdreamtime 2010
I’m not a religious person, however I like angels and nuns and god has a white beard.
More musings in my Moleskine Sketchbook, I have not yet found out what my writing around the nuns has to do with them, but I’ll give you an excerpt of my chaotic Nuns, Names’n Noses brainstorming [...]