Announcing the inaugural art exhibition of Emerging Artist van den hooven at Clyde Gallery, Bay Pavilions Arts + Aquatic Centre, Batemans Bay. We are thrilled to invite you to the …

Let me tell you something. My story. My love story. My struggle as a starving artist. I myself am about to “give up”. Honestly. Because just last night, someone I …

It would be nice if I could receive some more google reviews or other feedback about my art, please click here: https://g.page/r/CY8vxklvp2eNEBM/review What do you like specifically? Do you like …

I have written previously about what inspired me to paint the way I do and how my style arose. But I haven’t really talked about the meaning behind each artwork. …

I keep confusing the name of this colour with Schminke’s “neutral tint”. That grey is a warmer, purplelish maroon grey. But this is a kind of colder, much more bluish. …

Winsor and Newton calls it “magnesium brown”, but I am using the Schmincke version (which may or may not have magnesium in it). Iron zinc spinel, or PY119, as it …

I recently started using genuine manganese blue colour, a pigment made from barium manganate sulfate. You can buy my first artwork using this unique and rare pigment here. I’m also …

One of the other colours in my palette is cobalt violet, but not Schmincke cobalt violet hue. I’m referring to Daniel Smith’s cobalt violet (PV49). It’s a single pigment colour …

Of all the colours I have struggled with the most, it is probably orange. The reason is that many of the oranges did not seem natural to me, they are …

I have been busy the last few months creating many new artworks, some of which are now available for sale! One of these is available for as little as AUD$110. …

Another organ that I like to paint are a pair of lungs. I tend to paint these in a triangular shape. But lately I have been doing them into a …

The hearts are often the centrepiece of my artworks. Did you know that the word for ‘heart’ in Italian is ‘cuore’? (cuore also means “core”). And so the heart really …

I’ve always thought brains reminded me of walnuts (or rather, walnuts reminded me of brains) and so I draw the whole corpus callosum (a) in the shape of a walnut …

We just wanted to provide a quick update as we’re busily working behind the scenes to improve your online art shopping experience here with us. We’ve re-enabled trackship, which means …

Where else can you buy real original abstract art with Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies? Right here! Because this week van de hooven has decided to accept all major cryptocurrencies on …

I recently bought a new synthetic brush made by micador called the Roymac revolution. I was so impressed I immediately bought two more in the same size. And I’ll probably …

It’s true. For one thing, I don’t like the word ‘pop’. I never just ‘pop’ down to the shops. I never just ‘pop’ in somewhere. I never thought of my …

If you’re wondering what type of wax pencil I use in all my artworks, it’s none other than the Staedtler lumocolor glasochrom pencil (in black). The reason is that many …