Painting-Ideas-and-Techniques.com

Hi, I'm Evelien Nijeboer, artist since about 1991. Art, color and painting are my passions. In my development I moved from photography to painting, finding that traditional oil painting is a great for playing with realism. Video and photographym to me are painting tools as well. Seeing and thinking are closely related and in between I write about t... his. Writing I also do for a Dutch glossy Waldorf education magazine. Check here to look at my painting gallery . For seeing some more, check my dutch art website . After regular art school I did a postgrad (Rijksacadamy of fine arts, Amsterdam), and lived in Amsterdam since then. I learned a lot about contemporary art, and I had some great teachers. I was very young when I got there, with the freshess of a kid who was never taught about art contemporary art. It enabled me to be authentic, driven and idealistic. I encountered lots of support, but also things about the art world I didn't agree to, like the neo-liberal way of determining an artist's or artwork's value. After my studies I had two children and did a lot of research, forming an alternative in determining the real value of art and human development. Apart from this website, my professional activities go from making art and showing it, to faux painting projects, to teaching, writing and giving lectures on color. To me, art is a way to express the core, the meaning of life. I feel as humans we have a purpose. Even though we are individuals, and have to formulate and realise this purpose in our own unique way, there's a general quality to this purpose. To visualize this sense of purpose is the main drive in my life and work. I wanted my work to communicate, so I studied color, composition and art histoy, and documented every step of the way. My sincere hope is that it'll be of some use to others as well. My ideal is, to have art sustain life, so I try to be of use to both artists as well as interior decorators or home owners. This website is financially sustained by targeted advertising (Google ads), and ...Read More