tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37453253022977702582024-03-13T14:20:47.752+01:00red cheeks factorynellekehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14421869663338995522noreply@blogger.comBlogger594125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3745325302297770258.post-67382535505364379842020-09-01T18:59:00.004+02:002020-09-01T19:29:25.219+02:00New book: The Bread Pet<p>In August this new book was launched: 'The Bread Pet' written by Kate DePalma, illustrated by me.</p><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zJN66XLGjbI/X0520sW-PSI/AAAAAAAAIco/Ao0VVhceyo8xH158OVMlX6sRA3zT0cL6QCNcBGAsYHQ/s500/Bread_Pet_1.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="369" data-original-width="500" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zJN66XLGjbI/X0520sW-PSI/AAAAAAAAIco/Ao0VVhceyo8xH158OVMlX6sRA3zT0cL6QCNcBGAsYHQ/s0/Bread_Pet_1.png" /></a></div>
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It is a fun story about a girl, Cora, who has to take care of the Bread Pet of her uncle. <br />But that not seems so easy ...
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The book also includes baking tips and how you can keep your own Bread Pet
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Since I began to illustrate this story we keep our own Bread Pet. My friend Herman bakes the most delicious breads (and pizza's) with it!1 Mmmmm!
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My most favourite is focaccia, an Italian bread: the last one on the photo. nellekehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14421869663338995522noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3745325302297770258.post-77688574576305908082020-05-20T07:23:00.000+02:002020-05-20T07:23:57.362+02:00In Memori-Mam 10Today already ten years ago my Mam suddenly passed away. Each year after that day I make a special in
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The photo on the swing is one of the last photo's taken from her.<br />
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Below you can find the other nine In Memori-Mams I made:<br />
The first year I posted this blogpost: <a href="http://blog.redcheeksfactory.com/2011/05/to-honour-my-mom.html" target="_blank"> to honour my mom</a><br />
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The third year I wrote about her <a href="http://blog.redcheeksfactory.com/2013/05/my-moms-geranium.html" target="_blank">geranium</a><br />
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The fifth year I posted <a href="http://blog.redcheeksfactory.com/2015/05/85-geraniums.html" target="_blank">85 geraniums</a><br />
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The sixth year I wrote:<a href="http://blog.redcheeksfactory.com/2016/05/in-memori-mam-6.html" target="_blank">In Memori-Mam 6</a><br />
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The seventh year I wrote:<a href="http://blog.redcheeksfactory.com/2017/05/in-memori-mam-7.html" target="_blank">In Memori-Mam 7</a><br />
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The eighth year I wrote:<a href="http://blog.redcheeksfactory.com/2018/05/in-memori-mam-geranium-art.html" target="_blank">In Memori-Mam Geranium Art</a><br />
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And last year I made this post <a href="http://blog.redcheeksfactory.com/2019/05/still-blooming.html" target="_blank">Still Blooming</a><br />
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Since the book is in Dutch I continue in Dutch now: 'Hieperdepiep' is een boek in de serie theaterlezen. Het is een speciale feest editie ter gelegenheid van het 25 jarig bestaan van uitgeverij 'De Inktvis' Een boek over allerlei feesten.<br />
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A huge banner with my animals on it from my newest book 'Von Anni Alligator bis Zeno Zebra'. What an honour!And what a nice surprise!!<br />
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Earlier tis year they also chose my animals on the cover of their Autumn brochure:<br />
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Last week the postman ( I love hoim ;-)) brought a box with my books. Always a superexcited moment! How will it look like? The colors, the size? Till then I've only seen it in a pdf on my screen ...<br />
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The story is about Luna, who's going on a journey with the moon and she has a wonderful time in the circus. As you maybe know I love the circus theme. Long time I was a theater performer, using all kind of circus techniques. :-)<br />
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The book is available in the Dutch and Belgian bookstores and on the website of <a href="https://www.eenhoorn.be/nl/circus-luna.html" target="_blank">De Eenhoorn</a>. I really hope that one day it will be translated in English ... It is not much text, but that would be great!<br />
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And then the postman brought anóther book ...! <br />I will post about that soon. Have a nice weekend!!
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nellekehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14421869663338995522noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3745325302297770258.post-32782807624314981162019-09-09T07:00:00.000+02:002019-09-12T07:56:10.091+02:00Online class: Creating Simple CharactersGood news! You now can subscribe for a brand new online art class: <a href="https://www.carlasonheim.com/online-classes/creating-simple-characters/" target="_blank">Creating Simple Characters</a>. And guess what? I am the teacher :-)<br />
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In June this year we travelled to Seattle in the United States to film this class.Carla and Steve Sonheim invited me to come over to teach Quite an honor and an adventure!<br />
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And now the 24th of September the class goes life! Exciting!<br />
You can watch the promo video <a href="https://www.carlasonheim.com/online-classes/creating-simple-characters/" target="_blank">here</a>.<span id="goog_558171202"></span><span id="goog_558171203"></span><br />
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The class is about finding all kind of ways to create characters. Simple characters We start with making faces. It will be fun!<br />
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Then we gonna add bodies, make animal characters, give character to things and even to letters. At the end we gonna make a Simple Character book.We gonna play and experiment! You can find much more information <a href="https://www.carlasonheim.com/online-classes/creating-simple-characters/" target="_blank">here</a><br />
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On Carla's blog I answered three questions for people to get to know me a little bit better.<br />
The first question was: How did you get into making 2D art and illustration?<br />
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The second question was: What kind of animal are you?<br />
Read it<a href="https://carlasonheim.wordpress.com/2019/08/28/what-kind-of-animal/" target="_blank"> here</a><br />
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And the last one: Name the top 3 why you draw.<br />
Read it <a href="https://carlasonheim.wordpress.com/2019/08/29/why-nelleke-draws/" target="_blank">here</a><br />
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You are very welcome to join! Let's make some fun together!<br />
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nellekehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14421869663338995522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3745325302297770258.post-12396370557297466102019-05-22T10:13:00.000+02:002019-05-22T13:09:05.819+02:00Migrations Project - Open Hearts Open BordersI want to share a very inspiring illustration migrations project. It started as a travelling exhibition. And it now turned into this beautiful book:<br />
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Some time ago illustrator Piet Grobler (founder of the International Centre for Picture Book in Society) asked illustrators all over the world to make a postcard with a bird for a special migrations exhibition starting at BIBIANA in Bratislava, September 2017.<br />
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I was one of them. We were asked to send them with a positive message to the Arts centre of Worcester. So birds from all over the world were send by post. More than 300 postcards did arrive and were turned into a nice installation. (Still traveling around the world) <br />
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Recently they also made a book with bird postcards of the project: Open Hearts Open Borders. They selected 50 birds. Also my bird :-):<br />
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My postcard was a bit damaged during her flight. Such a great metaphore ... I just LOVE this project. All royalties of the book will be shared by Amnesty International and IBBY (The International Board on Books forYoung People)<br />
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If you wish, you can read an article in the Guardian about the book <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/may/04/childrens-picture-book-artists-tell-migrants-stories-through-postcards?CMP=share_btn_fb&fbclid=IwAR01gks6DE0giVHA8SnvahSd1hpE3V64uB77ojMQerUEOn_NpJ9yQYVQHTI" target="_blank">here</a><br />
<br />nellekehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14421869663338995522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3745325302297770258.post-79504675699582176862019-05-20T08:44:00.000+02:002019-05-20T08:44:15.038+02:00Still blooming ;-)Today it's nine years ago my Mam
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I wrote before about the <a href="http://blog.redcheeksfactory.com/2017/05/in-memori-mam-7.html" target="_blank">geranium</a>
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So the whole summer our garden will be flowery red again. And each time we visit our little Summerhouse I think of her. She is still blooming!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<br />
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Here are the other blogposts I made to honour her. Click the links:<br />
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The first year I posted this blogpost: <a href="http://blog.redcheeksfactory.com/2011/05/to-honour-my-mom.html" target="_blank"> to honour my mom</a><br />
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The second year I wrote another blogpost about her: <a href="http://blog.redcheeksfactory.com/2012/05/far-away-but-still-nearby.html" target="_blank"> far away, but still near </a><br />
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The third year I wrote about her <a href="http://blog.redcheeksfactory.com/2013/05/my-moms-geranium.html" target="_blank">geranium</a><br />
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And the fourth year I wrote: <a href="http://blog.redcheeksfactory.com/2014/05/in-memori-mam-thinking-of-you.html" target="_blank">In memori-mam, thinking of you...</a><br />
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The fifth year I posted <a href="http://blog.redcheeksfactory.com/2015/05/85-geraniums.html" target="_blank">85 geraniums</a><br />
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The sixth year I wrote:<a href="http://blog.redcheeksfactory.com/2016/05/in-memori-mam-6.html" target="_blank">In Memori-Mam 6</a><br />
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The seventh year I wrote:<a href="http://blog.redcheeksfactory.com/2017/05/in-memori-mam-7.html" target="_blank">In Memori-Mam 7</a><br />
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And last year I wrote:<a href="http://blog.redcheeksfactory.com/2018/05/in-memori-mam-geranium-art.html" target="_blank">In Memori-Mam Geranium Art</a><br />
<br />nellekehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14421869663338995522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3745325302297770258.post-13073765868177053542019-04-05T11:10:00.002+02:002019-04-05T11:55:12.648+02:00Bologna Children's Book Fair 2019We just came back from a wonderful and inspiring trip to the Bologna Children's Book Fair. It was my second time and again I did like every minute of it! Such a great event!<br />
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One of the many hightligts was receiving a printed version of the catalogue 'Your own voice' <a href="http://blog.redcheeksfactory.com/2018/11/back-to-school-again.html" target="_blank">an illustration class </a>with Javier Zabala, including one of my works:<br />
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Bologna is beautiful. Also by night. We arrived at Sunday In the evening one of the streets was filled with enlighted poetry. I love the italian language. This part means: - to be here - in this moment ...<br />
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I also really love the colors of Bologna. By day ánd by night!<br />
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In the morning we walked from our piccolo appartment to the Fair. About half an hour. We enjoyed the sunshine and again the beautiful warm colors and all the arches.<br />
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We also visted some interesting lectures. There is so much to see and listen to. A real illustrator's paradise! I also had some very nice meetings with publishers and illustrator friends.<br />
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The Illustrator's exhibition was nice and inspiring this year. Of course I did buy a catalogue of it.<br />
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And one of the hightlights was a meeting one of my favorite illustrators: Kveta Pacovska. <br />
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I felt a bit like a lucky little girl to meet Kveta in person. Such a wonderful and kind lady. And a great artist!<br />
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I'm really thankful for this moment!<br />
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In the city of Bologna there were some other exhibitions too. This one below is from illustrators who did embroider their portrait.<br />
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And one by Richard Scarry in one of the libraries, a beautiful old buiding<br />
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It is fun to try out various techniques. My inspiration I mostly get out of the snippets. I have boxes full with snippets and parts of paintings.<br />
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What I like about this project that they are made without the computer. Normally I work mostly digital. So it is relaxing to make one of these in between.<br />
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I like to play with shapes. See what emerges. Also the pieces from what's left over are interesting.<br />
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I also join the <a href="https://www.carlasonheim.com/online-classes/2019-year-of-the-collage/" target="_blank">2019 - Year of the collage class</a> with Carla Sonheim and others. Just for fun! This also gives inspiration. ( You still can join! ) One of the assignments was to make a grid of paper snippets. <br />
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I then like to give my own twist to it. So I made some face grids. I also made this clown with buttons, inspired by the grid exercise:<br />
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Sometimes I take a theme, like playing with rhythm, as these elephants below show.<br />
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Another assignment was about playing with colored transparancy paper. First make textures on transparant sheets and then make collages with them. It gives a fun effect, because of this transparency: <br />
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What I like the most of this playing with shapes and snippets, the unexpected things appearing. Things or characters you never would have thought of.<br />
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Most of the time I make characters. That's what I like the most. But sometimes I try to make an abstract one:<br />
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It is now the end of January. So I made 31 of these collages. I will try
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try. I once did it with my <a href="https://redcheeksfactory.com/index.php/portfolio-red-cheeks-factory/face-a-day-project" target="_blank">face a day project</a> and made 365 faces. Remember?<br />
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More on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/redcheeksfactory/" target="_blank">Instagram</a>.<br />
See you there?!<br />
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We did experiment with a lot of different techniques. The image above is a mixture of collage, stencils and Photoshop)<br />
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Javier did show his techniques in special videos. Each week was around another theme. We also did get a lot of theory about masters of influence, finding your voice, the essence of a character and composition.<br />
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One assignment was to do 20 'covers'. It had to be quick drawings in the same style, that could be covers for a sketchbook project. I chose faces as subject, but in a different way from what I normally do. Here are some of them:<br />
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<br />nellekehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14421869663338995522noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3745325302297770258.post-46736139517575258442018-05-26T11:20:00.001+02:002018-05-26T11:30:10.966+02:00My first Children's Picture Book!After illustrating several books I recently made my first children's picture book:<br />
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I'm very happy with this, because it was high on my wishlist! I wrote the story and made the illustrations.<br />
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It is published by <a href="https://www.eenhoorn.be/nl/baas-van-iets-groots.html" target="_blank">De Eenhoorn</a> (February 2018) It's one of my favorite publishers. The book is written in Dutch. I hope it will be translated one day ....<br />
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There are some reviews written about it. (in Dutch) You can read it <a href="http://www.pluizuit.be/content/baas-van-iets-groots" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="https://indeboekenkast.wordpress.com/?s=nelleke+verhoeff" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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<br />nellekehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14421869663338995522noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3745325302297770258.post-53943932071830253742018-05-20T06:36:00.000+02:002018-05-20T06:36:00.304+02:00In Memori-Mam - Geranium ArtToday it's eight (already eight? yes eight!) years ago my Mam suddenly passed away. Each year after that day I make a special in Memori-Mam here on my blog.<br />
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I wrote before about the <a href="http://blog.redcheeksfactory.com/2017/05/in-memori-mam-7.html" target="_blank">geranium</a> I took with me after she died. About our growing geranium field.We just put all the geraniums out in our garden again after the winter staying inside.<br />
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When I see a geranium, I always think of my Mom. And I have them all around me :-)<br />
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If you like to see the other blogposts I made to honour her, click the links:<br />
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The first year I posted this blogpost: <a href="http://blog.redcheeksfactory.com/2011/05/to-honour-my-mom.html" target="_blank"> to honour my mom</a><br />
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The second year I wrote another blogpost about her: <a href="http://blog.redcheeksfactory.com/2012/05/far-away-but-still-nearby.html" target="_blank"> far away, but still near </a><br />
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The third year I wrote about her <a href="http://blog.redcheeksfactory.com/2013/05/my-moms-geranium.html" target="_blank">geranium</a><br />
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And the fourth year I wrote: <a href="http://blog.redcheeksfactory.com/2014/05/in-memori-mam-thinking-of-you.html" target="_blank">In memori-mam, thinking of you...</a><br />
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The fifth year I posted <a href="http://blog.redcheeksfactory.com/2015/05/85-geraniums.html" target="_blank">85 geraniums</a><br />
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And sixth year I wrote:<a href="http://blog.redcheeksfactory.com/2016/05/in-memori-mam-6.html" target="_blank">In Memori-Mam 6</a><br />
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And last year I wrote:<a href="http://blog.redcheeksfactory.com/2017/05/in-memori-mam-7.html" target="_blank">In Memori-Mam 7</a><br />
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Last week we (my friend and I) visited the Fair. It was our first time. It was so inspiring! The exhibition was really nice! Nine prints were exhibited from each finalist. I made a book named 'Concerto'<br />
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Work from the winners of the last four years were also presented including their books.<br />
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My book 'Concerto' is about a piano player and his cat. They make a musical journey. A Silent book means a book without words. You have to think differently. More only in images. I wanted to make something about music, because music has its own language. Also the making process was different from earlier books. Much more organic. A very interesting process!<br />
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Here are six of the nine finalists who came to the Fair. We had great fun on the opening. Can you spot me? Hahaha.<br />
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There also was a presentation on the Bologna Book Fair in the illustrator's cafe. They showed our books on a big screen. We had to tell a little bit about our book. We all were a bit nervous. It's huge there ...<br />
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Never thought my work would be shown on such a big screen on such a big event. I feel privileged to be amongst these talented finalists.<br />
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The winner will get his or her book published by Carthusia, an Italian publisher. But we all did already won with such a great experience!<br />
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More photos about this contest you can find <a href="https://bit.ly/2pWJyUU" target="_blank">here </a>and photo's from our trip to Bologna and the Fair you can find <a href="https://www.facebook.com/nellekeverhoeff/media_set?set=a.1569151116537110.1073741836.100003267108774&type=3" target="_blank">here</a><br />
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<br />nellekehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14421869663338995522noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3745325302297770258.post-16535387459602869822017-06-13T19:13:00.002+02:002017-06-13T19:14:22.475+02:00Winner Worldwide Picturebook Illustration Competition!Good news! I am one of the three Dutch winners of the Worldwide Picturebook Illustration Competition! I am happily surprised by it! You can read more about this competition <a href="http://www.wwpbic.com/wwpbic.com/index.php/nl/" target="_blank">here</a><br />
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I've send in three illustrations that goes along with a selfmade story calling: No time!<br />
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And they were chosen! In Octiober there will be a travelling exhibition including work of the in total 12 winners; 3 from Germany, 3 from the United Kingdom, 3 from South Africa and 3 from the Netherlands.<br />
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The exhibition starts in my hometown Rotterdam the 4th of October and travels then to the Bilderbuch Museum in Troisdorf in Germany and The Hive in Worcester in the United Kingdom. And maybe even to Shanghai!<br />
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They also will print a catalogue, which will be shown on the Frankfurter Buchmesse and the Bologna Childrens's Bookfair.<br />
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I have a reason to have red cheeks right now, don't you think? ;-)<br />
<br />nellekehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14421869663338995522noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3745325302297770258.post-89401244399548278622017-05-20T08:13:00.002+02:002017-05-20T09:38:10.424+02:00In Memori-Mam (7)Today it's already seven years ago my Mam suddenly passed away. Each year after that day on the 20th of May I make a special in memori-mam here on my blog.<br />
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When she died I took her last geranium and every year we multiply them. We place them in the garden next to our holiday home on our island in de Bergsche Plas in Rotterdam. In autumn we take them with us to our home.<br />
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Not all, because that would be too much... And we make new ones of them. Last Wednesday we planted them again. The photo above was taken last year in August.<br />
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If you like to see the other blogposts I made to honour her, click the links:<br />
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The first year I posted this blogpost: <a href="http://blog.redcheeksfactory.com/2011/05/to-honour-my-mom.html" target="_blank"> to honour my mom</a><br />
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The second year I wrote another blogpost about her: <a href="http://blog.redcheeksfactory.com/2012/05/far-away-but-still-nearby.html" target="_blank"> far away, but still near </a><br />
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The third year I wrote about her <a href="http://blog.redcheeksfactory.com/2013/05/my-moms-geranium.html" target="_blank">geranium</a><br />
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And the fourth year I wrote: <a href="http://blog.redcheeksfactory.com/2014/05/in-memori-mam-thinking-of-you.html" target="_blank">In memori-mam, thinking of you...</a><br />
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The fifth year I posted <a href="http://blog.redcheeksfactory.com/2015/05/85-geraniums.html" target="_blank">85 geraniums</a><br />
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And last year I wrote:<a href="http://blog.redcheeksfactory.com/2016/05/in-memori-mam-6.html" target="_blank">In Memori-Mam 6</a><br />
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<br />nellekehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14421869663338995522noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3745325302297770258.post-82832834021404082962016-07-21T14:10:00.000+02:002016-07-21T14:10:48.228+02:00Drrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrumrole!And the winner of the 30 K followers give away is....
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Find out <a href="http://bit.ly/29Yvq3C">here</a>nellekehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14421869663338995522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3745325302297770258.post-16713584462594752462016-07-20T16:27:00.002+02:002016-07-20T16:31:46.783+02:00Hooray, a give away ;-)To celebrate the fact there are already over 30 K people who follow Red Cheeks Factory on Instagram, I will give away these postcards. You can join on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BICa51phj4M/?taken-by=redcheeksfactory" target="_blank">Instagram</a> or on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=994501640668730&set=a.129131187205784.23797.100003267108774&type=3&theater&notif_t=like&notif_id=1468921327227824" target="_blank">Facebook</a><br />
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Go to above links to add your comment and tag a friend. Thursday the 21th of July. (Tomorrow) I will pick the winner(s).nellekehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14421869663338995522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3745325302297770258.post-37402582641790544852016-05-20T07:48:00.000+02:002016-05-20T07:48:22.749+02:00In Memori-mam (6)Today it's already six years ago my Mam suddenly passed away. Each year after that day on the 20th of May I make a special in
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When she died I took her last geranium and every year we multiply them.
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Yesterday I painted an interpretation of my Mam when she was young. It's done from a very small photo. I added a geranium. I still miss her a lot. We had so much fun together.....<br />
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Here's another geranium painting I made .My mother was called Annie:<br />
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If you like to see the other blogposts I made to honour her, click the links:<br />
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The first year I posted this blogpost: <a href="http://blog.redcheeksfactory.com/2011/05/to-honour-my-mom.html" target="_blank"> to honour my mom</a><br />
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The second year I wrote another blogpost about her: <a href="http://blog.redcheeksfactory.com/2012/05/far-away-but-still-nearby.html" target="_blank"> far away, but still near </a><br />
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The third year I wrote about her <a href="http://blog.redcheeksfactory.com/2013/05/my-moms-geranium.html" target="_blank">geranium</a><br />
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And the fourt year I wrote: <a href="http://blog.redcheeksfactory.com/2014/05/in-memori-mam-thinking-of-you.html" target="_blank">In memori-mam, thinking of you...</a><br />
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Last years post <a href="http://blog.redcheeksfactory.com/2015/05/85-geraniums.html" target="_blank">85 geraniums</a><br />
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We took a flight on Wednesday the 20th, so we were in time for the opening on Thursday evening the 21st. It was quite an experience! What an inspiring exhibition.<br />
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We arrived at the Electricity Museum some time before the exhibition started. So I had the chance to meet some people, like <a href="http://www.ingridgodon.be/" target="_blank">Ingrid Godon</a>, a Flemish illustrator. I knew her work, but never met her in person. And of course one of the enthusiastic organizers Eduardo Filipe.<br />
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Just as the <a href="http://blog.redcheeksfactory.com/2012/09/illustrarte-2012.html" target="_blank">Ilustrarte 12 exhibition</a> in Ghent, which I visited some years ago, the works are presented in a very original way. On tables / houses with lights especially made for this occasion. Each illustrator has one, two or three tables. It depends on the size of their work.<br />
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There's also an inspiring solo exhibition of illustrator <a href="http://www.sergebloch.net/blog/" target="_blank">Serge Bloch</a>, who is a member of the jury. <br />
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There were a lot of people at the opening. The speech was in Portugese, so unfortuately I didn't understand a word of it. <br />
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My work 'Fishermen' and 'bird friends' presented together on a table with the book <a href="http://www.redcheeksfactory.com/portfolio-red-cheeks-factory/haiku-boek-stil-verwateren" target="_blank">'Stil verwateren' </a><br />
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On the floor the illustrators names are written in big nice orange letters. Looks good, hé? ;-)<br />
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Here's the other print I've sent in for the exhibition: Growth. <br />
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On Friday morning we visited the exhibition again. So we had more time to see all the illustrations When we came we saw this giant anouncement on a building next to the Museum. In between some palm trees ;-)<br />
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Here another view on the tables with my work in front.<br />
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More photos of the exhibition on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/nellekeverhoeff/media_set?set=a.886435464808682.1073741826.100003267108774&type=3&pnref=story" target="_blank">Facebook</a> <br />
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The exhibition will last till half of April. Maybe it's gonna travel, but the organization was not sure about that yet. They need to find some sponsors. I hope it will come to Ghent again. That would be awesome! <br />
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This Summer they asked people all over the world to send in their work, so they could make a selection. Over 1700 people from 72 countries did sent in work.<br />
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Although I didn't think I would have much chance, but I wanted to give it a try. <br />
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I did sent in three giclee prints of some illustrations I made for the big haikubook <br />
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The organizers of the festival also asked for a translation of the title 'Stil verwateren'. <br />
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On de Facebook page of author Geert De Kockere we asked his fans to help. It was so nice to get all this support! <a href="https://www.facebook.com/geertdekockere/posts/931724646882966" target="_blank">Interesting suggestions</a> were given.<br />
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I also asked a friend and ex-collegue, a native speaker, who lives in Holland for help. And between his suggestions was: Soluble Silence. That directly spoke to me. The author made it into 'In Soluble Silence' and we did have an english translation ;-)<br />
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In January <a href="http://www.ilustrarte.net/EN/ilustrarte2016/ilustrarte16.htm" target="_blank">the exhibition</a> will take place in the Electricity Musem. The opening is on the 21th of January. We are planning to go there, because I love to see it. I think it will be a great experience with lots of great work to see and nice people to meet! And of course to visit Lisbon. Seems like a good start of the year.<br />
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I've been quiet here lately, I had a good reason. I was working on a new book: <a href="http://www.pigmalion.be/Fluitenkruid/index.html" target="_blank">'Tussen oevers van fluitenkruid'</a>: 1001 haiku's (in Dutch) and 71 illustrations made by me. In this post you can see some of them. I continue this post in Dutch, but the illustrations are international ;-)<br />
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Het is een roman van het leven zoals het is in 1000 haiku's en 71 prenten. Dit keer geen papieren boek, maar een <a href="http://www.pigmalion.be/Fluitenkruid/index.html" target="_blank">mooi vormgegeven e-book</a>, wat je overal mee naar toe kunt nemen....<br />
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Het was een waar feest om aan te werken! Geert en ik inspireerden elkaar. Vaak maakte ik een tekening naar aanleiding van een bepaalde haiku. Dan maakte hij daar nóg een haiku bij, want bij elke prent horen er twee. <br />
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Naast de haiku's haalde ik ook inspiratie uit mijn eigen archief. Toen ik bijvoorbeeld onderstaande haiku las, moest ik meteen denken aan een foto, die ik maakte tijdens de grote Matisse tentoonstelling in het Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam deze zomer.Die zet ik dan weer om in een illustratie.<br />
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Een modern kunstwerk:<br />
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Ik heb in dit boek vooral gezocht naar
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Een groot voordeel van dit <a href="http://www.pigmalion.be/Fluitenkruid/index.html" target="_blank">e-book</a> is de prijs. In tegenstelling tot het dikke papieren haiku boek, kost dit boek maar tien euro, terwijl je toch dezelfde hoeveelheid aan haiku's en prenten hebt. Het is ook meer dynamisch om te lezen, want je kunt alles uitvergroten met een eenvoudige klik- of knijp-beweging. Ik hoop dat je er net zo enthousiast over raakt als ik ;-)</div>
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Meer informatie en hoe je het boek kunt bestellen vind je bij <a href="http://www.pigmalion.be/Fluitenkruid/index.html" target="_blank">Uitgeverij Pigmalion</a>. </div>
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Veel leesplezier!</div>
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<br />nellekehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14421869663338995522noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3745325302297770258.post-3805137015610021042015-08-03T08:52:00.002+02:002015-08-03T08:52:50.386+02:00Hooray! A birthday GIVE AWAY!!Hooray!!! Today is my birthday!<br />
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That's why I will give away this postcard set:<br />
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If you wanna win this set, go to <a href="http://on.fb.me/1HkaX1d" target="_blank">this Facebook post</a> and leave a comment, so I know you wanna win it... ;-)<br />
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Have a very nice day!<br />
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<br />nellekehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14421869663338995522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3745325302297770258.post-3935936084975334772015-07-14T10:07:00.000+02:002015-07-14T11:53:04.401+02:00100 Days of AnimalsOn <a href="https://instagram.com/redcheeksfactory/" target="_blank">Instagram </a>I joined The 100 Day Project a few month ago. I chose the subject: <a href="http://blog.redcheeksfactory.com/2015/04/animal-characters-002-004.html" target="_blank">Animal Characters</a>. and today I published my 100th Animal! I made it!!<br />
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It was a fun journey. In the beginning I was in doubt if there would be enough 'drawable' animals for me. Now I know there are. No problem ;-)<br />
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Sometimes I drew the same animal twice, as the lion and the elephant, but a different character. I all gave them names with an alliteration. (I also gave them Dutch names)<br />
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Some animals were easy, others took more time. Annie Alligator wasn't that difficult and she still is one of my favorites ;-)<br />
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I never drew a mole before for example....here's a shy one ;-)<br />
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The funny thing of such a project is, it not only motivates to create something new each day, but also in the end you have a whole collection.<br />
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Remember my <a href="http://www.redcheeksfactory.com/projects/a-face-a-day-illustrations/face-illustrations-bingo" target="_blank">face a day project</a>? A project I did for a whole year, 365 days. So 100 days was much more easy to achieve.<br />
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This project doesn't stop here. I have lots of material to continue. I want to 'deepen' some characters. Place them in other environments and play with emotions and letters It's a rich source. I'm happy with it!<br />
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And maybe, maybe, maybe they will appear in a book.Who knows...? <br />
I'm working on it :-) This project certainly will be continued...<br />
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You can find all the animals on <a href="https://instagram.com/redcheeksfactory/" target="_blank">Instagram</a>.<br />
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