Let me start by introducing myself. I’m Kalinka, a hobby artist (since 2015) and hobby photographer (since 2019) from the Netherlands.
I’m self taught in about every hobby I have, although recently I’ve been following a few short online courses in drawing with pastels because I got stuck in trying to master that medium on my own. Funny to realize that I learned some stuff using the pastels, that gave me some new ideas on how to work with my graphite pencils. My ultimate goal is to be able to deliver photo realistic artwork ánd to be able to draw or paint album covers for music artists.
In art I mainly do portraits, but I don’t shy away from drawing animals or things you find in nature. Even got into drawing or painting objects, just so I could practice new mediums to work with.
As a photographer, I mainly take pictures of animals (birds on top of the list). But in this case, I don’t shy away from portrait photo’s and photo’s of beautiful places in nature.
This website is dedicated to my artwork, but I’ll also show some of my photographs.
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Commissioned work?
Occasionally somebody asks me if I do commission. The answer to that question kinda depends on your definition of ‘commission’. I do make drawings on request for others, but I do not ask for them to pay me. I ask them to pay it forward instead. In my humble opinion, every man or woman has a talent. One way or another. As a kid I used to philosophize a lot. And one day I thought: If everybody shares something with the person on their right……eventually, we all get something in return. Same goes for helping out people. Maybe today I can help someone out by making him or her a nice drawing. Maybe in a year or a decade, I may need help and someone will come to me and give me that help. And maybe that’s because I started a chain of “paying it forward”
Call me naive, but I still believe that doing good for others makes this world a better place.
So to answer the question, do I commission work? Yes, but only if you are willing to pay it forward!