Nancy van den Boom
vibrant oil painted jewelry

Poppy time again

May 8, 2012

Last week I saw first pop­pies bloom­ing already.
Look­ing for­ward to more and more pop­pies the com­ing weeks!

I have painted lots of pop­pies, with oil paint.
This one is my favorite. It was a joy to paint!

and this one too.….:-)

I found some more poppy-​​paintings by fellow-​​painters, I hope you like them!

Together Pieces with Jana

May 3, 2012

I love to work together and I am proud to be work­ing together with sweet
Jana Tarhala from Fin­land. She is just won­der­ful to work with and a very skilled and tal­ented artist.

This is Jana

Jana has a beau­ti­ful shop on ETSY, I’d like to see her shop filled up a bit more…it’s so spe­cial and beau­ti­ful what she makes!

Some time ago we decided to work together to make wear­able art!
I send minia­ture paint­ings to Jana and then she starts work­ing around this mini paint­ing with her incred­i­ble bead­ing. And then I sud­denly
receive pic­tures of the magic result.

Jana made these won­der­ful bracelets with my paint­ings.
When you click on the pic­tures, you can see the details of the bracelets.

We are very happy we sold these 2 pieces 2 weeks ago. Jana takes care of send­ing them, and makes a lot of work of the pack­ag­ing.
Jana just let me know the bracelets arrived and the cus­tomer loves the bracelets and also the lovely pack­ag­ing by Jana. From my own expe­ri­ence I know Jana’s wrap­ping with beau­ti­ful rib­bons and lovely extra’s makes it very spe­cial to receive our Together Pieces.

Jana has some minia­ture oil paint­ings by me in stock and I am look­ing for­ward to her new creations.

Below a pic­ture of a neck­lace, to show we’re “not only mak­ing bracelets”!

Thank you dear Jana, for work­ing with me!

Colour Tree

April 28, 2012

It’s a rainy grey day in the Nether­lands. Lots of colours in my stu­dio though.
A few years ago I painted lots of Colour Trees, in var­i­ous sizes and colours. I sold quite some of them. From very small to big can­vasses and even danc­ing ones. I chose one to show here since it is one of my favorites. It’s a great joy to paint Colour Trees and make their flow­ing energy vis­i­ble through the tex­ture of the thick vibrant oil paint­ing.
The paint­ing below is 50 x 60 cm.

Summer Breeze Birch oil painting

April 17, 2012

This morn­ing I painted in my cleaned-​​up stu­dio.
Fresh Palette, Fresh can­vas. To paint this fresh sum­mer birch tree was a big joy! Size is 30 x 40 cm, 13 x 19 inches.

Paint­ing and print are avail­able in my ETSY-​​shop.

Fresh Studio!

April 13, 2012

I worked on sev­eral paint­ings at the same time lately and I enjoyed it a lot. This morn­ing I walked into my stu­dio and I couldn’t believe the incred­i­ble mess I saw.
To pre­pare for a new paint­ing I cleaned up. I love my stu­dio, the morn­ing light, and all those tubes with oil paint, the cleaned brushes and enough spare blanc canvasses…

The next paint­ing is a com­mis­sion, it will be a tree “from head to toe”. I like that

Theo

April 6, 2012

This post is not about paint­ing, but about Theodore, our 12 year old geld­ing. He’s with us since Sep­tem­ber last year and a won­der­ful addi­tion to our fam­ily. We spend many happy hours with him. He’s a happy, funny horse, very clever, bright and will­ing to learn. There are many appro­pri­ate and pos­i­tive adjec­tives for Theo. It’s easy to cover it all with just a few words. I love him to pieces.

The pic­ture was taken by Mariska, our friend at the farm where Theo lives.

Here she is with her horse Vilord. A happy couple!

Painted Skies

I love to paint skies in oil paint. With this won­der­ful medium I can give tex­ture and struc­ture in all kinds of ways.

In this post I post pic­tures of pieces of sky of paint­ings I made.

I am plan­ning to make a series with o n l y skies, and no land. Look­ing for­ward to that! What skies do you like to see in oil paint?

Early Work

March 28, 2012

I dis­cov­ered paint­ing in 2004 and became totally, com­pletely pas­sion­ate about oil paint­ing. The vibrancy, the tex­ture, the brushes, the smell, the empty can­vas, wait­ing for me.

I can­not imag­ine my life with­out paint­ing any­more.
These are my early paint­ings that I want to share with you.
I painted so much, as if I had to catch up. I still have to catch up for the years I did not paint and I am enjoy­ing it so much.

“Alike”

“Irish Roos”

“Thought”

“Me 1981″

“Mir­ror”

“Roos paint­ing Witchy”

“Tus­cany”

“Bas”

“Mar­i­anne”

“Thijs”

“My cousins”

“No name”

“Lelystad sail­ing”

I hope you enjoyed watch­ing my early works.

Next post: sur­prise, but it will be colour­ful for sure.

Thanks for watching!

Furry Friends

March 22, 2012

I have some sweet furry friends. They enrich my life and I am happy they want to be my friends.

This is Jacky, the far­m­dog. He came home with me (run­ning back home with me, while I was on the bike). Here he’s sit­ting in my stu­dio, as if he is home. After this visit we took him back to the farm by car. He has a great life there. Wild and free.

Eva, beau­ti­ful feline. She’s such an amaz­ing cat, con­stantly hunt­ing and catch­ing preys for us. Preys like cig­a­rette packs, gloves, plants. About 6 years ago she decided to live with us. Her owner agreed and I was happy.

Bella Zor­rol­una, the most relaxed cat in the world. Same pre­vi­ous owner. Bella came together with Eva, liv­ing with us.

And the lat­est addi­tion to our fam­ily: Theo, 12 year old geld­ing. He’s with us half a year now. A dream came true. Still can­not believe that I really have the priv­ilidge to take care of this horse. I never had such a big friend before. He’s an amaz­ing, won­der­ful lov­ing crea­ture that brings peace and love.

And Nico, our instructor’s horse, for our course coach-​​riding. He’s such a fine spirit! 18 Years already, but very ener­getic and trustworthy!

Occa­sion­ally I paint furry friends, for friends (for minia­ture paint­ings for a necklace).

Finally I show an acrylic paint­ing of Keesje, my beloved friend for over 18 years. He passed away June 2011. I miss him every day.

I am going to paint Theo soon! Who are your furry friends?

Bloom in Pink

March 17, 2012

It’s almost the time of bloom!
I love paint­ing them in thick tex­tured oil paint.
I invite you to take a stroll along my pink paint­ings.
Can you smell the bloom (or is it oil paint maybe you smell?)

Below you see a tiny paint­ing (30 x 40 cm) I sold to a lady in the US.

Big blos­som paint­ing (120 x 100 cm), it’s in the home of Dutch customers

And here is my favorite pink paint­ing.
Cherry Blos­som New York (120 x 100 cm), I sold it to cus­tomers in the Nether­lands. This is one of the paint­ings I miss a bit, but I enjoy the thought of happy cus­tomers. It’s an hon­our for me that peo­ple want my paint­ings in their homes.

Below you see my paint­ing Cherry Blos­som Lille, a paint­ing (100 x 80 cm) I made after a won­der­ful visit to Lille, to our friends Daniel en Chris­telle Uyt­ter­haeghe. Daniel is a great painter, and I am very proud they vis­ited my exhi­bi­tion last year in Bus­sum, and bought my painting.

Thanks for vis­it­ing my blos­som gallery! I hope you enjoyed this pre-​​spring walk.

Close up Studio

March 14, 2012

My stu­dio is my home, my cas­tle, resort, place of inspi­ra­tion.
I spend lots of hours there, play­ing (not work­ing) with colours, tex­tures, oil paint.
Noth­ing is on a dis­tance. All is close and loved.

A detail of a a por­trait I made of my daughter

and some more details of paintings

and some other things as well…

And a strange angle pic­ture of a gouache paint­ing my Dad made, when he was young

It’s always nice to have a smile close by (a paint­ing by Jeanette House)

A loved one made this por­trait of me…

And finally… the blanc can­vas and the promise of a new painting

Poppies Framed

March 4, 2012

I promised to post pic­tures of the Pop­pies paint­ing when the over-​​the-​​top-​​frame was ready. Here it is! It was done by Ton­nie Bechger from
Arts of Lacadre.
It is the art-​​shop where I had my exhi­bi­tion in Feb­ru­ary. I am very happy with the result.

Tiny birds in oil paint and a little Boy

March 1, 2012

Today I got a mes­sage from the gallery-​​owner that a lit­tle boy vis­ited his shop. The lit­tle boy had saved money to buy my tiny paint­ing (10 x 8 cm) of a Red Robin. I find it so touch­ing. I will give the boy some post­cards with my paint­ings too. I hope he likes it.

And here some more tiny birds in oil paint.

Spring

February 29, 2012

With 12 degrees C in the Nether­lands it feels like spring! Espe­cially when the sun comes out and we can enjoy those first sun­rays! I like to share my spring­paint­ings with you. I hope you like them!

30 x 40 cm oil paint, this paint­ing was a present for a friend in the United States.

At the farm where Theo is we saw early lambs, so cute. This paint­ing I sold to a Dutch customer.

30 x 40 cm

The Tiny Tulip Paint­ing below is 6 x 10 cm. It’s in Geneva now.

See­ing these scenes, I feel like paint­ing a new spring painting.

Poppies framed

February 28, 2012

I was very lucky to exhibit about 15 works at Arts of Lecadre, an artshop in Bus­sum, the Nether­lands. Also this painting.

I asked shopowner Mr. Rob­bert Bechger to frame this paint­ing. We decided to choose an over the top frame and I will show it here as soon as it is ready. I like this paint­ing (30 x 40 cm) a lot myself, and I intend to keep it. It will be exhib­ited in June/​July in Het Oude Thee­huys, together with about 20 paint­ings.
This “Old Tea­house” is a lovely loca­tion near the dunes.
Here you see a pic­ture of Het Oude Thee­huys in summer.