Interview Wilma van Boxtel

During coming months we will have more information about the participants. Some of them are joining the blog from the beginning! Time to read more about their dreams, favorite artworks and hobby's.

Today Wilma will tell you more about herself, by answering some questions.

1. When did you join the blog and why? 

From the start, I am a blogger myself and liked the idea Roos started this creative blog with people from all disciplines.

2. What is your favorite material? Or way to work?

Due to lack of time I rarely get my drawing equipment out of the cupboard but it’s on my bucket list to go back to drawing with pencils and paint. I love life drawing! But for now I like to work with photos and digital media like Photoshop and CAD.

3. What other hobbies do you have?

I love the outdoors, nature, being surrounded by plants, animals, the sun, the moon and the stars. Everything I do when outdoors is my hobby, from an intensive hike to reading a book in the hammock under the mulberry tree. From a five day kayak trip on the ocean to gardening and producing my own food and from walking the dog twice a day to the cuddle sessions with my cats.

4. What inspires you?

Everything and everyone inspires me, the world is so beautiful, especially when you open your eyes to see it! www.deseosdesign.blogspot.com.au  

Extra note from the Difference of 25:
Wilma and I met at the Design Academy in Eindhoven. Now she lives in Australia!
It is great to have contact this way.

Theme of May: Birdhouse

Sorry to keep you waiting for the new theme. At the moment I am very busy with my Etsy shop. If you want you can visit me: www.rosesarerednl.etsy.com Besides this shop I am also busy making new things for the Swan Market in Utrecht next sunday.
But I am not the only one who is busy! The birds are nervously looking for a place to breed.

Of course they can build a bird's nest. But we can give them a hand and make a birdhouse. You can make it as fashionable and chic as you want.
You can send in your artwork untill the 23th of May to: roos25blog@gmail.com Have fun!

Theme 28: Butterflies

Welcome to the world of butterflies.
We have 2 new participants, Jacqueline and Sira, who are my neighbours in Utrecht! Please feel free to join the blog anytime.
Thank you all for sending your artwork. We have a lot of different butterflies this time.

Enjoy watching the gallery. You can scroll down to see all the artworks seperately. Here you can have a closer look. I hope to see you back on the first of May for the new theme.

Butterflies: Wilma van Boxtel, Perth, Australia

Butterflies: Gerda Simmer-Elzenaar, Eindhoven, NL

Butterflies: Susan Hol, Chaugey, France

Butterflies: Anne-lize, Amsterdam, NL

Butterflies: Petra Coumans, Utrecht, NL

Butterflies: Renate Daniels, Utrecht

Butterflies: Willemken, Bussum, NL

Butterflies: Caroline, Breda, NL

Butterflies: Sira, Utrecht, NL

Butterflies: Jacqueline, Utrecht, NL

Butterflies: Greet, Utrecht, NL

Butterflies: Roos, Utrecht, NL

Interview Susan Hol

During coming months we will have more information about the participants. Some of them are joining the blog from the beginning! Time to read more about their dreams, favorite artworks and hobby's.

Today Susan Hol will tell you more about herself, by answering some questions.

1. When did you join the blog and why? 

On twitter I saw a post, a retweet from a friend, with the theme of April 2012: You could rent an apartment in an apartment building with 25 windows. I rented apartment no. 2 and made a window scene. It was fun! At that moment I didn’t fully understand the concept of The Difference of 25, but now I do. I join as much as possible. Sometimes Roos makes it really difficult for me with themes that doesn’t make me instantly enthusiastic, but I always try and learn a lot from it. What I really love is the combination of the 25 artworks in one post. All these lovely artworks! Beautiful!

2. What is your favorite material? Or way to work?

I always work with my photo’s. I’m a Dutch fine art photographer and I live in the very small village Chaugey, France.

I make photo’s of all kinds of objects from nature and culture, most notably the seaside, countryside and all kinds of cities, to create unique, outdoor inspired images. The basis of my photography is meeting: while walking between trees, buildings, flowers, plants, people and animals, on cultivated land and squares, in streets and lanes, over mountains, along seas, ravines and under the sky with big white clouds, I meet my pictures. They wait patiently for me to be ready to see them. After making pictures I store them for a long time, a sort of ripe process, like wine. After that I pick en choose the best and often work on it for a long time to make the image I want.

Some work I made for The Difference of 25:

I made an e-book. You can find it on my website www.susanholfotografie.nl and download it for free if you fill in your name and e-mail address. It is in Dutch, so I’m sorry for the ones who cannot understand that! But the main thing is of course that you can see the images, and maybe you can use (the often terrible but a bit helpful) translation in Google to understand a bit of the text. I sell pictures on http://susanhol.werkaandemuur.nl/. You can also like my Facebookpage. 

3. What other hobbies do you have?

I love to chop wood, run, hike, read and write. 

4. What inspires you?

Art! Nature! Old stuff in cities (doors, handles, steps, iron things). Everything I meet in a day. The experiences I have had in my life. And last but not least my work as a philosopher in the analytic aesthetics.

Interview Anne-Lize

During coming months we will have more information about the participants. Some of them are joining the blog from the beginning! Time to read more about their dreams, favorite artworks and hobby's.

Today Anne-Lize will tell you more about herself, by answering some questions.

1. When did you join the blog and why? 

I joined the blog from the very first day, just for fun.

2. What is your favorite material? Or way to work?

My favorite materials are paper, water & paint, pen and Indian ink.
I love water-colour painting and chinese painting.

3. What other hobbies do you have?

My hobbies are reading, classical music (just listening), flowers and plants, visiting musea (marvelling at all those wonderful pictures).
I follow a Chinese painting course. 

4. What inspires you?

Inspiration comes from a lot of things, from anything and nothing.

Extra note from the Difference of 25:
Anne-Lize is a dedicated participant, she never skipped one theme!

Theme of April: Butterflies

This week the weather is great in Holland. In the morning you can hear the birds singing and in our garden a lot of butterflies are visiting the first flowers.
I love watching the butterflies dance around. I love the way they move and the way they look, their beautiful wings in bright colours almost if they were painted.

No wonder this month theme is butterflies! On internet you can find a lot of inspiration, but...you can also go outside and search for a real life model!
You can send in your artwork untill the 23th of april. Hope to see you back.

Theme 27 Sunflowers

Welcome to the galery of sunflowers.
I hope you enjoy our show. We have a nice variety of sunflowers.
We have a picture of sunflowers, a mixed media sunflower, a foodart sunflower,  a smiling sunflower, painted sunflowers, a crochet sunflower and even wooden sunflowers.

Don't this look sunny to you? Thank you all for sending your artwork.
Don't forget to come back the first of April for the new theme!

Sunflowers: Greet, Utrecht,NL

Sunflowers: Roos, Utrecht, NL

Sunflowers: Caroline, Breda, NL

Sunflowers: Petra Coumans, Utrecht, NL

Sunflowers: Sultana, Zoetermeer, NL

Sunflowers: Anne-lize, Amsterdam, NL

Sunflowers: Susan Hol, Chaugey, France

Interview Gerda Simmer-Elzenaar

During coming months we will have more information about the participants. Some of them are joining the blog from the beginning! Time to read more about their dreams, favorite artworks and hobby's.

Today Gerda will tell you more about herself, by answering some questions.

Hi I’m Gerda Simmer-Elzenaar and I’m joining the blog since the start.

1. When did you join the blog and why? 

Immediately I was enthusiastic about it, because now I can create every month a new artwork. Otherwise I don’t take the time (or I think I don’t have the time) to create something new!

2. What is your favorite material? Or way to work?

My favourite material are black pencils and acryl painting. I’m a freelance designer,illustrator, inspired by things from everyday life: flowers, nature, picture, child's drawing, magazines and shopping. Loving fresh, bright colors! My website: www.stijlmetsimmer.nl 

3. What other hobbies do you have?

Hobbies: having a lot DIY stuff like making stamps. Love to paint, reading a book 

or a magazine. Trying to raise my 2 almost 3 lovely children. Having dinner with friends & family!

4. What inspires you?

My work is characterized by fresh, bright colors and lots of my inspiration comes from nature, especially flowers.

Gerda wrote this a few days ago and I am very glad to tell you the wonderful news that today Gerda gave birth to a beautiful babygirl! 

Both Gerda and Leah are doing fine. Congratulations from all of us of The Difference of 25.

Interview Renate Daniels

During coming months we will have more information about the participants. Some of them are joiningthe blog from the beginning! Time to read more about their dreams, favorite artworks and hobby's.

Today Renate will tell you more about herself, by answering some questions.

1. When did you join the blog and why?

I joined in June 2012 after hearing about the blog from a friend. It's a great opportunity to show my work and to link to my website www.renatedaniels.nl. The monthly theme's are often an incentive to make a new illustration that I might normally not have made, or to adapt existing designs. I quite often go on to develop them into greeting cards. You can find them via a link on the news page of my site http://www.renatedaniels.nl/news/

2. What is your favorite material? Or way to work? For example: photographs, drawing with pencil or charcoal, knitting, or painting

My favorite materials are textiles, from fabric to yarn, weaving, sewing, embroidery, knitting and crochet, but for illustrations I like to use pen and Indian Ink, or make cutouts with a scalpel.

3. What other hobbies do you have?

For me, illustration is not just a hobby, but part of my profession, in addition to surface design and styling. My hobbies are crafts, sewing, reading, rowing and speed skating.

4. What inspires you?

Inspiration comes from everyday life, nature, art and textiles. There are patterns, structures, great colours and illustrations everywhere!

Theme of March: Sunflowers

Sunflowers!!! Don't you love the sight of the fields full of yellow sunflowers! A lot of artists were inspired by these big flowers. Van Gogh made several paintings with sunflowers. He made a study of it. First he painted the flowers lying on the ground, later he painted bouquets of sunflowers in a vase. These paintings were made to decorate the guestroom in the house of van Gogh in Arles where Gaugain was supposed to stay. Van Gogh made 4 different paintings but he was only satisfied by 2 to hang on the bedroom wall. Later he painted 3 copies of these paintings. One of them is hanging in The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.

You don't have to make a study of the sunflowers as van Gogh did. Only one artwork is enough! Together we will create our own Gallery of Sunflowers! You can even hang it on your bedroom wall. It's up to you!
You can send in your atwork untill the 23th of March.

Theme 26: Houses

Welcome to the gallery of houses.

We made a nice new street! We have all kind of houses, Canal houses, dream houses, embroidered houses, a where I grew up house, a modern house with a garden and... a palace!

Thank you for sending in your artwork.

Scroll down to see all the artworks seperately and enjoy walking down our street!

Don't forget to come back the first of March for the new theme. In March we will also have more information about the participants. Some of them are joining the blog from the beginning! Time to read more about their dreams, favorite artworks and hobby's.