november 8, 2016 ~ Mystical old cultures are very inspiring for me. It helps me making up stories which will be the basics for a new design or create symbolic paintings. I’m not into using decorative elements of old cultures, like the Egyptian hieroglyphics. They have to be some sort of context, and mean something so it adds to the painting. This way I am creating a story that gets to me. And there has to be an interaction for the viewer to start thinking! What am I looking at here? What story is hidden in this piece? I did some research on cats in art. In my 1st book ‘Drawing and painting animals with expression’ I tell more about catart: