Theme 29: Birdhouse

Welcome to the gallery of birdhouses! We have a small but completely different collection of birdhouses. So I hope you enjoy watchting The difference of 5 :)
New this month is Marian Dessing. We know eachother from "De zelfgemaakte markt" in Utrecht. This is a very nice market which is this saterday 31th of May on the Mariaplaats in Utrecht.

Unfortunately I won't be there this time, as I am running the Color Run in Amsterdam!
I'm glad these birds found I nice place to live. You can scroll down to see the artworks seperately. Enjoy watching and I hope to see you back on the first of June for the new theme.

Birdhouse: mariette jongen, Utrecht NL

Birdhouse: Marian Dessing, Amersfoort NL

Birdhouse: Anne-Lize, Amsterdam, NL

Birdhouse: Petra Coumans, Utrecht, NL

Birdhouse: Roos, Utrecht, NL

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