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Bavaria in February
This the third time I have been to Bavaria and it's really delightful to see how the landscape changes with the seasons - and also...
Madeleina Kay
Mar 41 min read
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Brain Awareness Week 2025
I was contacted by GAMIAN Europe (who recently awarded me with a prize for my artwork 'Trepidation' which featured in their touring...
Madeleina Kay
Mar 21 min read
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Crafting Christmas Cards...
I usually hand-make Christmas cards for a select few people and then create some digital 'Merry Christmas' messages for mass-disemination...
Madeleina Kay
Dec 24, 20242 min read
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A Bavarian Christmas Experience
I've been back to Bavaria for an authentic Christkindlmarkt experience... The landscape was beautiful in the September sunshine when I...
Madeleina Kay
Dec 20, 20241 min read
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Passau and JEF Bavaria
JEF (Jeunes Européens Federalistes) Bavaria had an event in Passau on Saturday 14th December, so we decided to make a weekend out of the...
Madeleina Kay
Dec 16, 20242 min read
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Motaz's Colours
Motaz understood the "choose your colours" brief right away and sent me the following list along with a selection of really great profile...
Madeleina Kay
Nov 26, 20241 min read
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Marcelo's Colours
Marcelo took the colour brief to heart and gave me the following, brilliantly poetic response: ORANGE This is my inner fire colour which...
Madeleina Kay
Oct 8, 20241 min read
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A Crash Course in Bavarian Culture
My friend invited me to stay in Bad Reichenhall, a Bavarian spa town on the border with Austria. The area is famous for being the filming...
Madeleina Kay
Sep 25, 20248 min read
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Sketches from Edinburgh
I went to Edinburgh for three days to represent the Young European Movement (YEM) at the European Movement in Scotland's stall. I made...
Madeleina Kay
Sep 2, 20241 min read
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Adam's Colours
Me and Adam decided on the best photo to use for the final portrait and I created the linework portrait before adding the watercolour...
Madeleina Kay
Aug 13, 20242 min read
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Ania's Colours
I created the line-work portrait from Ania's preferred photo before adding her colours in watercolour splatters. I t took Ania a while to...
Madeleina Kay
Aug 11, 20241 min read
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Nikita in Colour
I started with the linework in waterproof ink for Nikita's portraits. I have a cheat method for accuracy of using my Macbook screen as a...
Madeleina Kay
Jul 10, 20241 min read
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Sketches from Durrës
Durrës is an Albanian coastal town about 40km from the capital city Tirana. I wanted to go somewhere else for a couple of days and this...
Madeleina Kay
Jul 3, 20241 min read
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Bologna and Imola Lunatic Asylum in Sketches
I didn't have any time for sketching whilst I was in Bologna, so all of these were made from photographs which I took whilst dashing...
Madeleina Kay
Apr 23, 20242 min read
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Alla Ricerca Di Un'Identità – Sketches from Rome
This was my third time in Rome, but I was delighted to actually have time to explore the city on this trip (as the previous two trips...
Madeleina Kay
Apr 18, 20245 min read
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“Welcome to Paradise” – Sketches from Warsaw
Some sketches and photos from a whirlwind trip to Poland. My Ukrainian friend Anhelina, replied to my Insta story announcing my arrival...
Madeleina Kay
Apr 14, 20246 min read
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Vox Europ Publish my Landscape Sketches
A journalist friend of mine recently asked if his media platform, Vox Europ (which publishes multi-lingual content) could publish some of...
Madeleina Kay
Mar 28, 20242 min read
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Adding A Splash of Colour to My Prints
After the print-making workshop at CSM, in which I made six prints of an architectural tower in Lisbon – I decided to paint over some of...
Madeleina Kay
Mar 16, 20242 min read
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Sketching Thessaloniki (and Videos from the Event I was Actually Here For)
My watercolour and ink sketches of the architecture and landscapes ot Thessaloniki, as well as some videos from the YEUF project national...
Madeleina Kay
Feb 25, 20245 min read
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JC in Colour
These are the watercolour and ink portrait and oil pastel study of JC Candanedo who is participating in my research project. First, I...
Madeleina Kay
Feb 6, 20241 min read
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