Mihai
whimsicalsketches.com
Mihai
@whimsicalsketches.com
I like to paint and I hope my paintings will bring beauty and joy in your life.

whimsicalsketches.com
I’ve been working for the past weeks on a commission. I’m happy with the concept, but disappointed with the brushwork. The client was ecstatic and I was moved when I saw that they hanged it in their living room the next day. Will not be taking commissions for a while

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December 21, 2025 at 7:15 PM
November 20, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Here’s a painting with multiple meanings; I’ll let you decipher what it means to you 😃

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October 3, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Ok, no more excuses: need to get back to painting. Went yesterday to a painting course/group and, boy, felt so good to mess with paint just for fun!

I’m grateful my customers have been patient and understanding recently, but I do feel I let them down.
September 5, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Finished. The friend loved it and I loved her reaction. We argued about signing the painting though. I don’t normally sign my paintings, but I seem to get more and more requests to do so…

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July 27, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Next commission… 😥
July 6, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Got yesterday two Ampersand gessoboards; what a fantastic medium for painting! Worth the price. So I tested them by making her and his inner children.

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July 2, 2025 at 12:23 PM
The idea and the design are not mine, I copied them from the internet. I was moved by the simplicity of the image as well as its message. We carry inside us our younger selves that we do not honour as much as we those younger selves deserve.

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June 26, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Vacation time! Found a store with art supplies while on the island and went bonkers.
June 20, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Now that I’m more settled in my new house, I restarted painting. Sadly, a friend’s beloved pet passed away recently and she was deeply affected. I hope a painting of the cat will give my friend a way to cherish her memories. (WIP)
May 30, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Aaaaand finished! I think… I hope the sellers of the house will like it and will remind them of the good conversations over coffee in their soon to be former garden.

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April 4, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I will receive the keys to my new place in a few days. The sellers told me they will miss the garden a lot, so I will make a painting of the garden for them; not a photo in the cloud, but a painting on the wall. (Work in progress)

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April 3, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I have ideas and I have a client begging for paintings, but I feel stuck; 2 very long weeks until I get the keys of my new house+studio. I just fooled around for an hour every now and then, practicing and learning (light and shadows, test of soft blending acrylic paint)
March 29, 2025 at 7:17 AM
I want to paint more often, yet I feel resistance. In a month I’ll get the keys to my new house and one room will be turned into a studio - excited, but it will be a very long month… 😅 31 days!

In the mean time, here’s a painting I made yesterday.

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March 14, 2025 at 11:59 AM
It’s almost finished; the eyes need some sparkle. Since last time, I only re-worked the eyes, the mouth, the nose and the hair. Oh, and the neck. It would have been easier to say “I kept only the left ear as is”, but that would have been a very short post 😅

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March 2, 2025 at 4:50 PM
One more miniature painting.

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February 26, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I think I’ll leave it as it is.

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February 25, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Another work in progress. I don’t know how other artists work, but I feel dread and overwhelmed when I set out to start a new painting, yet one hour later I’m so excited that you need to drag me away from the canvas by force, otherwise I won’t even drink a glass of water.

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February 24, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Work in progress - unfinished underpainting for a portrait of a woman. It’s nuts how much energy I get after one hour of painting, seeing the painted shapes coming together to form a painting. “Oh, here a bit more, and there, and this, ah forgot that!”

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February 21, 2025 at 7:28 AM
My latest miniature painting: snowdrops. Here’s to an early end of winter! (I ran out of miniature canvases… 😥) #art #painting @bsky.art
February 12, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I painted an owl on a very small canvas. I might make changes later #art #painting @bsky.art
February 8, 2025 at 8:20 PM
I’ve painted another hummingbird (left) on small canvas #art #painting @bsky.art
February 7, 2025 at 7:55 PM
I’ve painted a closeup of one of my previous paintings. #art #painting @bsky.art
February 6, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Still trying to figure out how to paint on small canvas; practice will one day make perfect, but it’s mildly infuriating 😒 #painting @bsky.art
February 2, 2025 at 7:49 PM
This week in art class: “paint the same thing in 6 different interpretations”. I wanted initially to paint a bowl from above in 6 positions, but the teacher didn’t have it even after intense negotiations. Ok, one face, 6 emotions/reactions then.

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January 11, 2025 at 10:44 AM