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Artist Info |
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My name is Annaliese Vanderkloot. I have dabbled in all types of art but this is the one I love the most. From when I was a small child I learned how to paint and draw. I had my first set of crayons when I was 4. As with some children who are given the tools to draw and color at an early stage I never drew on the walls. Always a canvas or paper. It was always something that could be put up. |
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I apparently follow in a long line of artists in my family. My great opa was an artist in the bakery. Making exquiste cakes and pasteries in Holland. My Oma was an oil painter of all types. My oma is the one who taught me to paint before she passed away. My Aunt Hetty van der Kloot is an accomplished artist. She currently owns and runs her own gallery and continues to paint in oils and dabble in photographic design and other types of sculpture. My uncle�s wife Edith van der Kloot is an accomplished photographer who runs her own business doing weddings and pet photography. My father is a woodworker who builds guitars and other types of furniture. And after me my sister who is a musician. So in some part everyone in my family is an artist in what every they do. |
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In highschool I dabbled in all types of mediums. Plaster, Oil paint, Acrylic paint, Oil pastels, Ink, Pen and others. The one that had stood out was clay. Not the usual air dry clay that they give to you nowadays. The clay that had to be fired. Sculpture was my strong suit according to my art teachers. I continued all through highschool at the top of my class. My sister had a project and got some clay. It was fimo and I watched her play with the very tough clay and make her art project for her public school class. It was put out of my mind till two years ago. Before I left highschool however my final project was made of clay. Called �One�.
A sculpture of two people becoming one. A male and female. He told me that I should continue with clay and sculpture.
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After highschool I stopped doing art. I wanted nothing to do with it for a long time. I fell in love. I started working and started collecting beanie babies. Then 5 years ago I started etching glass and getting back into art. I started with painting Christmas ornaments. Then etching large glass windows and glass ornaments. I did that for about 3 years. And then while in the craft store one day picking up etching cream there it was. That fimo my sister was playing with all those many years ago. Only this time they had much more. Not just the regular primary colors she played with. Lots of other colors. And there was a new type of clay called sculpy. Since I thought fimo hadn�t changed much it still looked tough and my hands hadn�t done anything with clay for a long, long time I picked up the soft sculpy. One month later I had my first clay ornament. A star kid (looks like Maggie simpson from the simpsons). I decided to enter a craft show and wow every last clay ornament I made sold. So after the craft show I started looking online for everything and anything clay. And upon my traveling on the interent I found out about fairy sculptures. I looked on Ebay and found that other people loved it about as much as I did. I attempted my first doll this past summer of 05. It looked like an alien because the clay had slumped down. So my next doll had an armature and then it got worse from there. I bought a mold from Patricia Rose and it started to get better. I learned the proportions and armature settings. And now to this day I am getting better and learning something new everyday. |
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I hope you enjoy my fairies. Have a look around and if you have any questions please feel free to email me. |
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Thank you for the interest. |
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Annaliese |
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Graphics are by Patswebgraphics.com |
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