Kim Welling

Since 2007 I've been a blogger. First a more 'sketchbook focussed blog', later a blog about my work as an illustrator, arts teacher, diy-er and personal life: this blog. Lately I've come to ...

http://kimwelling.blogspot.com/2017/09/what-to-do-with-blog.html

Curious about your drawing talents? Always wanted to illustrate a story? Just want to learn illustration skills? Then I've got some news for you: I'LL BE TEACHING A ONE-DAY-WORKSHOP IN NOVEM...

http://kimwelling.blogspot.com/2017/09/workshop-short-story-illustration.html

From top to bottom: photo 1, 3 and 4 by Bob Leistra - photo 2 by Rob Welling Hello Hello, here I am writing to you as Mrs instead of Miss ;-). Friday the 25th of august Me and M got ...

http://kimwelling.blogspot.com/2017/08/the-wedding.html

It's almost there... my wedding! On friday is the big day and we are busy busy busy with the last preps. I made my husband-to-be a bow tie (the toddler has a mini-version), ordered beautiful ...

http://kimwelling.blogspot.com/2017/08/wedding.html

Here we are again, it's Mini Drawing Spark #4! This one is inspired by my favorite daily lunch, salades ;-). We're drawing veggie and fruit! Wait, not only drawing, we're also taking a l...

http://kimwelling.blogspot.com/2017/08/mini-drawing-spark-4.html

I think I can say that the Kunst Klub I organised in our little village was a succes! You never know how many kids will join but all days had enough subscriptions, wednesday was even fully b...

http://kimwelling.blogspot.com/2017/08/kunst-klub-art-club.html

For the very first time in my life I can say I am on the cover of a magazine! Okay, It's not my face, it's my work and it's tiny, but still, I am on a cover, hooray! So on what co...

http://kimwelling.blogspot.com/2017/07/in-moment-mag-comfort-box-diy.html

When I'm teaching art to kids -in this case at De Kunst Klub - , and I'm using new material or method, I'd like to test it in advance. My 3.5 year old is always very willing to help me out w...

http://kimwelling.blogspot.com/2017/07/testing-art-lesson-material.html

These sketches (okay, it's not literaly a sketch, I'm just not that 'pencil-sketch-person', fine liner and paper are my way ;-)), I've been working on -among others- the past two weeks, for ...

http://kimwelling.blogspot.com/2017/07/work-in-proces-sketches.html

After years of teaching mostly adults, I recently started to teach kids more again. I forgot how much I enjoy this! Although it's a bit more juggle than an class of grown ups, it's also...

http://kimwelling.blogspot.com/2017/07/art-class.html

Time again for a Mini Drawing Spark ... #3!  In this mini I dare you to play with black ink, make spots, dots and ink-accidents. You can do this by pouring some ink on a piece of (heavy) ...

http://kimwelling.blogspot.com/2017/07/mini-drawing-spark-3.html

This post is in Dutch because the event it's about is local (sorry world!). Na jaren in Utrecht te hebben gewoond staat mijn huis alweer 4 jaar in Ilpendam, een piepklein dorpje net boven Am...

http://kimwelling.blogspot.com/2017/06/kinder-kunst-klub-ilpendam.html

Browsing through photos of my work from the past 10 years I found a little project I totally forgot about! A few years back I had a quarterly DIY item in Genoeg , a dutch magazine about livin...

http://kimwelling.blogspot.com/2017/06/diy-design-vase.html

What better gift to give on father's day than a personally made peice of art? Kids art! With my 3 year old I made a NO. 1 BEST DADDY AWARD for father's day (in the Netherlands it's father's...

http://kimwelling.blogspot.com/2017/06/fathers-day-diy-for-kids.html

illustration detail     illustration detail     elements cut out of paper and scanned   Lately I'm drawn more and more towards cutting and assembling paper in my illu...

http://kimwelling.blogspot.com/2017/06/paper-illustration.html

For Mini Drawing Spark #2 I'd like to ask you to zoom in on the beautiful world of insects. Now that summer is getting closer, it's the perfect time for taking a closer look at these pretty...

http://kimwelling.blogspot.com/2017/05/mini-drawing-spark-2.html

One of my fave things to draw are faces. I love making little people and characters. A few years ago I sold little brooch pins in my shop that all had a different personality. I m...

http://kimwelling.blogspot.com/2017/05/little-character-magnets.html

With my own wedding coming up in august, I of course had to design my own wedding invitation. The future husband and I wanted a design without the regular flowers/ rings/ wedding things a...

http://kimwelling.blogspot.com/2017/05/wedding-invitation-design.html

On my bookshelfs a lot of art and illustration books but these are the books I keep looking at, that inspire me most. top picture, from top to bottom: 1. SOMETIMES I THINK, SOMETIMES ...

http://kimwelling.blogspot.com/2017/05/the-books-that-inspire.html

After years of teaching illustration I found that the one thing most people struggle with is to find time, ideas of what to draw and how to draw. Well, your searching days are over ;-) as I w...

http://kimwelling.blogspot.com/2017/04/mini-drawing-spark.html

Today I teached an art workshop to 4 to 8 year old at two daycare centers in Purmerend, The Netherlands (via Cultuurhuis Wherelant ). I'm always amazed (and inspired!) about the cr...

http://kimwelling.blogspot.com/2017/04/paradise-birds-kids-art.html

Last week I've been working my ass off ;-) on a presentation of my vision on cultural and art education (with a focus on primary and secondary education). I've made illustrations...

http://kimwelling.blogspot.com/2017/04/illustrations-on-culture-and-art.html

Some of the first designs of the Instant Comfort Pocket Box back in 2010 the instant comfort pocket box in 2017 I posted last week on intagram about making and selling the Instant Comfor...

http://kimwelling.blogspot.com/2017/03/how-instant-comfort-pocket-boxes-came.html

For the dutchies this is an all familiar image: roze koeken (Pink cake-like cookies). Personaly I never liked them much (too sweet and too pink) but during my high school years half my class...

http://kimwelling.blogspot.com/2017/03/pink-and-cookies.html

Oh my, it's been a loooong time since I posted here. So many things have happened, good, bad and inbetween but I'm still here (in case you wondered...). This year, I'm promised myself...

http://kimwelling.blogspot.com/2017/03/wedding-invitation-in-making.html