Helena Zanting – One Image a Day – starting January 1, 2019

Create your own reality

Acrylic paint on canvas, 40×50 cm, in wooden floating frame.

Girl

Day 38 – February 8, 2019

Acrylic on 300 gr. watercolour paper, 21x 30 cm.

Snap

Day 37 – February 6, 2019

When classic meets trendy…. Three layers of mod podge and acrylic paint over a picture of Peter Paul Rubens’ painting of his daughter Clara Serena.

En profil

Day 36 – February 5, 2019

Legs

Day 35 – February 4, 2019

Acrylic paint and ink pen on acrylic paper, 15×21 cm.

Me

Day 34 – February 3, 2019

Charcoal and ink on 225 gr. acrylic paper. This drawing is not exactly what I hoped it would be, but I still want to post it. Simply because this is me (although the face doesn’t look like mine). Standing half behind a dark wall, one leg in dusk. Never naked in bright light. You know…

Wonder

Day 33 – February 2, 2019

Non-dominnat hand drawing, ink pen and 15×21 cm.

Baby Fingers

Day 32 – February 1, 2019

Acrylic paint on 225 gr. acrylic paper, 42×30 cm.

Safe Zone

Day 31 – January 31, 2019

I fell asleep at 7.30 p.m. (The Netherlands), so I completey forgot to post my artwork of the 31st of January. It’s now 5.45 a.m. here (February 1), but in some countries in this world I’m still on schedule…

Collage on wood block, resin top layer.

Growing green cities

Day 30 – January 30, 2019

Analog collage on wood, resin.

Malcolm X

Day 29 – January 29, 2019

Blind contour drawing, 15×21 cm.

Neptune

Day 28 – January 28, 2019

Analog collage on wood block, resin layer.

Bean sídhe

Day 27 – January 27, 2019

Collage and acrylic paint on paper, 16,5×19 cm.

‘Bean sídhe’ is a female spirit in Gaelic folklore believed to presage, by wailing, a death in a family (English: Banshee; it means ‘Woman of the Fairies). The story is about a young man Christian, who plays a prank, that comes back to haunt him.

Not my fault

Day 26 – January 26, 2019

Non-dominant hand drawing. Pen on 225 gr. acrylic paper, 15x21cm.

Also someone’s daughter

Day 25 – January 25, 2019

Acrylic and collage on paper, 25×32,5 cm

Daughter

Day 24 – January 24, 2019

Acrylic paint and collage on paper, 25×32,5 cm

Brother and sister

Day 23 – January 23, 2019

Pencil and Tombows on 225 gr. watercolour paper, 24×32 cm

Self portrait

Day 22 – January 22, 2019

Mixed media: acrylic paint, photocopy and tape on 360 gr. acrylic paper, 24×32 cm.

It was really hard to take a picture of this work, because of the shiny tape, so sorry for the bad quality.

Pow!

Day 21 – January 21, 2019

Pen, ink and Tombow on 300 gr. acrylic paper, 15×21 cm.

Sit

Day 20 – January 20, 2019

Acrylic paint on 225 gr. acrylic paper, 15×21 cm.

The Chicken Waltz

Day 19 – January 19, 2019

I have a confession to make. Everytime I take a shower and wash my hair, I lose some. Just like everybody. But my hair is black and long, so it always looks like a lot. Because I don’t want to flush the hair away with the water, I collect it during shampooing and stick it to te bathroom wall (see picture). Yeah, I know, it sounds a bit weird, but he, that’s me.

This time I was looking at it and saw a dancing chicken, so I decided to take a picture of it and try to draw it. And to be honest, I liked it. After drawing, I used my Tombows to give it a little bit more ‘life’. I’m satisfied and will do this more often!

Pen, Tombow pencils on 225 gr. watercolour paper, 24×32 cm.

Passion

Day 18 – January 18, 2019

Asemic writing, Indian and red ink, 15×21 cm.

Flowers

Day 17, – January 17, 2019

Charcoal, 15×21 cm

Self portrait

Day 16, January 16, 2019

Indian ink and acrylic paint on unprepared , 28,5 x 35 cm.

Night shift

Day 15 – January 15, 2019

Acrylic and indian ink on 300 gr. acrylic paper, 15×21 cm

Boy

Day 14 – January 14, 2019

Watercolour on 360 gr. watercolour paper, 30×40 cm.

The guard

Day 13, January 13, 2019

Pen, indian ink, paper

Stormy weather

Day 12 – January 12, 2019

Indian ink and acrylic paint on paper, 30×40 cm

No title

Day 11 – January 11, 2019

Non-dominant hand drawing, Tombow pencils, ink pen, 15×21 cm.

Noodlot

Day 10 – January 10, 2019

Acrylic paint, indian ink, and pencil on paper, 15×21 cm.

’Noodlot’ is the title of a Dutch book (literature) by Louis Couperus (1890) I read during my study of the Dutch language. It means ‘Fate’. The painting is based on the first sentence in the book: “His hands in the pockets, the collar of his fur coat up, Frank walked through the blowing snow, along the lonely Adelaide Road in the evening.” (Google translate Dutch-English, so don’t blame me for any mistakes).

First time I worked with acrylic paint. Because I’m not an experienced ‘real life’ artist, I followed an online class to learn how to draw lines of action. The first line I made was with a pencil. After that I took my dip pen and made some extra lines.

I kinda liked it, so I decided to give it some color with acrylic paint. That came out awful, because I don’t know anything about colors at all. It looked like a combination of Winnie the Pooh (colors) and Paddington Bear.

I wanted to throw it away in the garbage bin, but decided to put on a new layer of paint. And a new one. And… Well, finally it was finished.

And the horse you rode in on…

Day 9 – January 9, 2019

Non dominant hand drawing/ painting, watercolour and ink pen, 15×21 cm.

Reach out!

Day 8 – January 8, 2019

Ink, pen, dip pen, watercolour, 25×32,5 cm

Plant

Day 7 – January 7, 2019

Red ink and pen on 275 gr. acrylic paper, 15×21 cm.

Flowers

Day 6 – January 6, 2019

Charcoal on acrylic paper, 15x21cm

Kick ‘m in the balls!

Day 5 – January 5, 2019

Series of four drawings. The first three are videostills of Trump’s ‘conversation’ about women. The last drawing is Trump saying the world’s most famous mysogynistic words: ‘Grab ‘m by the Pussy’. My reply: ‘Kick ‘m in the Balls!’

Non-dominant hand drawing, pen.

Hommage a Louise

Day 4, January 4, 2019

Tombow pencils on 225 gr. watercolor paper, 24 x32 cm.

Je suis Coco

Day 3 – January 3, 2019

Collage of a picture of Coco Chanel.

Photo collage on 250 gr. acrylic paper, 42×29,7 cm (A3), glue, satin matt varnish.

Pattycular

Day 2 – January 2, 2019

This is a nondominant hand drawing of Patty, one of my best friends, whose birthday it is today. She turned 34 yrs. old. Btw: she has a great travelblog: www.pattycular.com

Nondominant hand with pen. The text is written with my dominant hand, but I held the pen at the end, so I didn’t have 100% control over it. 15×21 cm.

New Year’s Times

Day 1 – January 1, 2019

Drawing of the digital front page of The New York Times. Pen and water colour on 300 grams Talens Paper. Size 29,7 -x 42 xm (A3).

Illustrations and header with non-dominant hand.

‘One image a day’-challenge starts tomorrow!

On the 1st of January, 2019 – tomorrow – my 365-challenge starts. This means I will produce one image a day: a drawing, a painting (probably not, didn’t ever do that before), a collage or a photograph. Or even a 3D-work, if possible.

The reason for this challenge? To try materials, to produce, to unblock, to ‘not being afraid to produce’, to create, to stop comparing my work with other works of art, to grow. To….

After one year I want to organize an exposition with 365 works. You’re all invited!

Thanks, mom!

Pen and water colour on 250 grams watercolour paper, 21×30 cm. Lefthanded drawing, text written twice with pen hold at the end.

Source: an article from The Independent paper of 2-2-2017.

We can get you fixed in no time

Tombow dual marker (black, dark grey and grey, water and ink on 300 gr. water colour paper, 21×30 cm.

Punch

Blind contour drawing, pen on 250 gr. paper, 15×21

The architect

An analog collage I made in 2016 (sold). Paper, scissors, glue, 30x40cm, on 250 gr. paper.

Punk’s not dead

Indian ink, red ink and pen on 140 grams sketchbook paper, 2018.

Head

Tombow Pencils, Indian ink, red ink and oil pastels on watercolor paper, 15×21 cm, 2018

I tried my new Tombow dual pencils. I really have to practice this more often. I used an artwork from Deb Weiers as an example because I like her style so much! Finally it doesn’t look anything like the beautiful original, but he, I was only trying my pencils!

Another plant

Non-dominant hand drawing, 15×21 cm, 140 grams paper.

1984, Orson Welles

A non-dominant contour drawing of one of the masters of the movie!

Sense and sensibility

One of my award winning pictures I took nearby the Oostvaardersplassen in Almere (The Netherlands). It was at the end of a hot day and the butterfly was probably very exhausted. He didn’t even fly away when I came closer and closer. I took the shot and left.

Got ya!

Indian ink and pen on 250 gr. acrylic paper, 15×21 cm

OVP 1992

In 1992, 44 deer were brought to the Oostvaardersplassen, a fenced parc in Flevoland, The Netherlands. The experiment failed because population grew and finally more than 3,300 deer, horses and cattle starved to death because they couldn’t migrate. A black page in The Big Book of this country.

Drama is still going on, now they’ve decided to kill most of the deer, instead of moving them (which was an option, but it costed more money).