Cristina Martins is a The Hague based artist and makes these wonderful big drawings of girls and females. The drawings are made with pencil and I was lucky to witness her process from up close. The drawings reminds me of all the different stages a girl goes through her life. From girl to woman, from bride to old woman. The details, patience and concentration are fantastic!

I saw this artist for the first time on Art Amsterdam and it was truly love at first sight. The deep green colour and the theme really made my day.

For more artworks of this great artist visit: http://www.joncquil.com/

You can see this work at Dek22 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, from july 17 till august 8, visit the website of the gallery here.

A teacher once told me: “From black and white drawings you can really pick the real colourist” and “colourist” in this sentence doesn’t mean the person responsible for adding colour to comic book-drawings, but a person with a great sense for colour and beauty. I guess this remark truly applies to Shelley Reed. Normally I don’t look twice at artworks without colours (yessssssss, I’m a bad artlover…so sue me) but Shelley Reeds works really caught my eye. Although I never saw her art in real (only online) I guess you will easily get lost in her art.

Today I went shopping when I came across a beautiful book from the artist Nick Cave. Nick Cave is a professor at the Art Institute of Chicago. His artworks are big costumes/ installations were glitter, glamour, Haitian flags, Asian embroidery, flowers and voodoo comes together. In his works he explorers transformation, identity, rituals and myths.