Let me begin by saying.....I'm Dutch and I don't use proper English grammar, I know, so sorry for that to begin with.
As you can read, I'm Marjolein, born 4-1-1963 in The Netherlands. Due to a number of nasty happenings I'm home since 1996. Mother of a lovely daughter born in '94..
I remember me in my childhood loving to draw, and my attic's almost too small keeping them there lolll. Pencil, charcoal, pastels, ink, oil/acrylic/waterpaint, what more. I made a lot of portraits and my own fractals. I simply love eyes and try to achieve reality within my limitations. Also I love to make poems and stories, but they don't have priority now.
In 2002 I discovered Paint Shop Pro 7, I loved creating with it, but after a while I got bored with making frames and using tubes. I went looking for more and bumped into Terragen. I was very proud making my own backgrounds. Now the only thing I wanted to know was, where to use them. I discovered Poser and was immediately totally hooked! Now I can show my feelings through making them dolls cry or laugh through a simple twist of the dials, but it wasn't as simple as I thought. They looked like plastic dolls, cheap teenagedolls, not even a Barbie lolll. So I started using PSP again, version 9 was released and gave me lots of possibilities more. I paint my own textures and backgrounds now and it gives me great satisfaction, I can asure.
I discovered ArtWanted on the Internet while studying how to make animals, flowers, people and especially how joints and bodyparts move or stay to make better work. What's water, how does wind work, what's light en how to see in darkness. I learned a lot of the pictures the artists expose here and I'm still using it to enlarge my knowledge. After a long time of hesitating I decided to join AW as an artist. My future wish is selling my work, but that's such a big step, It'll need a long time before doing that.
Although I'm just a tiny spot on this lump of earth. . . I want the world to know I was there, somewhere. . . Even if it was for a very short time.
With Love. . .Marjolein
