hip hip hooray!

Hip hip hoorayyyyy, just reached 100 sales in my Etsy shop todayyyyy!

...and I'm not sold out yet...  You are welcome!

Red Cheeks Factory in de Winterwinkel

On the 7th of November was the opening of the Winterwinkel in Amsterdam. I was there and took photographs, but they didn't turn out very well. (wrong settings on my camera, stupid!!)

But I was lucky enough my favorite brother was so sweet to visit this lovely shop and took some nice pictures. Thank you very much, Jan, highly appreciated!

First a photo of one of my newest products: Affirmation Angela.
I've heard she's a bestseller in the Winterwinkel :-)

Below a photo of the etalage of the shop in the Oudezijdse Achterburgwal 121:

One of my prints in a frame: 'ode to the bird':

Some more Red Cheeks Factory giclee prints, presented in a very special way on these modern wooden plates with nicely colored typography:

You can also buy my DIY Dress Cat Mathilde and Ralph and ofcourse the Red Cheeks Factory Magnificent Magnets:

Below: my cactus giclee print has a nice spot in the shop, on the photo you also can see Barbara on the photo. She's one of the Ka-Ching Collectief members who are organizing this nice event:

There are a lot of fun postcards available, also Handsome Herbert, the one with real breasthair:

Below a view on the Red Cheeks Factory 'çolor your world' Zebra poster (which I had printed especially for the Winterwinkel).and  a nice view on  the shop:

And ofcourse you can buy the Muscle Man Paper Doll (one of the bestsellers from last year :-))

Ofcourse there are lots of other nice products from 25 other participants available in the Winterwinkel. It was nice to meet a few of them during the opening!

The shop will be open till 24th of December. From Wednesday till Sunday, 12.00 - 18.00 hour.

If you visit the shop, give Barbara, Babette, Annabel or Margriet of the Ka-ching collectief my kind regards :-))

Muscle Man Paper Doll now also in English!

I have a house full of Muscle Man Paper Dolls! He was sold out, but...
I've  ordered a whole bunch of new ones :-)

I've chaged two little things: the text is handwritten. And I'm happy to say he's now also available in English:  'be strong':  And ofcourse also 'with the Dutch word: 'sterkte!

You can find the renewed Muscle Man Paper Doll in the Red Cheeks Factory shop
and also on Etsy.

let it bubble

Here's the result of the final Bootcamp assignment:

Subject for the July assignment was your favorite beverage. I'm a fan of latte machiato (koffie verkeerd), I like orange juice, drink a lot of water, sometimes a glass of red wine... But the drink I love the most is Prosecco (campagne is also good, as long as it bubbles) We were asked to create a personal piece about it.

That was my inspiration for 'let it bubble'  I like the bubbles in the drink, but I also love it when bubbles of inspiration sparkling in my head. It's available as a giclee print in my Etsy shop

If you like to see what my classmates have made, you can view it in the
July Bootcamp Gallery.

Besides the July assignment, there was an extra 'just for fun' assignment of painting your nails or painting on rocks. Painting nails is absolutely not my thing, so I chose to make this little man.

It's a pity Bootcamp is over now. I started late in May, but it was a very nice experience and I'm glad I've joined. Great to meet all these fellow artists and share our proces and progress!

Next thing is the Global Talent Search: A competition organized by Top Illustration agent Lilla Rogers. First prize is a two years representation by the Lilla Rogers Studio. I can always try... ;-)

If you like, you can still enter. It starts the 5th of August.

personalized kids wall art

I recently made these prints for a kids room:

This little sailorman sailing on the sea. I can customize it with the name of your child, Ahoy... If you want, you can purchase this print here

And I made another one for girls. Hello Princess, dancing in the garden in her special princess dress. You can also ask if I add your childs name: Hello... so it makes it more personal. You can purchase it here

go with the flow

It has been a while since I posted something here. I'm busy with all kind off things and I don't take the time to blog about it. But today I do.! I want to show you my nautical wall art piece I made for Bootcamp, inspired by the drawings I made earlier.

The assignment was to make Wall Art. This is the market I'm most familiar with. So I was quite happy.And the nautical theme is very inspiring. 

It is already available in my Etsy shop. Brand new and fresh, waiting for a new owner ;-)

some nautical illustrations

For Bootcamp we have a new suject for the June month. Drawing nautical things. It's a very inspiring theme, There are so many possibilities: the sea, ships, boats, sea- animals, mermaids, sailors, waves... I love it! It triggers my imagination. :-)

I made these singing mermaid twins.

You can find them singing in my etsy shop to brighten up your wall :-)

But I made more drawings this week!
I also made this sailor man, John, with his the loooong beard, secretly wanting to be a mermaid...

And Otto Octopus. I can't help it, but when I think of sea animals, I have to think of dancing creatures, maybe it's because of the waves of the sea...

And here's another sailorman, named Sven, with his huuuuuuge moustache, dreaming of being a captain of a huuuuge ship once....

Tomorrow we will get the next assignment based on this nautical theme. I'm very curious!
Will be continued

editorial illustration: breathe in, breathe out

Remember I drew lots of faces two weeks ago?
It was a preparation for the 'big' assignment for Bootcamp

We were asked to make an illustration for a magazine about meditation. The article was called: How to meditate, a primer for people who don't like to meditate. Find it here

It was a nice and very recognizible article,  so I had a lot of fun making this illustration. 
I would love to make more for this editorial market.

For those who are interested: you can purchase it as a high quality giclee print
in my etsy shop

beyond your flexibility

As you maybe know I do practice bikram yoga in Rotterdam
Quite a while ago I've made this drawing: beyond your flexibility.

That's what the teachers say in class: "go beyond your flexibility!"
I like that, it's challenging.(Not only with yoga...)

I'm by far not as flexible as the figure in my drawing.
But at least I'm trying, that's what counts!
How about your flexibility?

This drawing is now available as a giclee print in my Etsy shop

love for life!

It is already springtme in Holland. Allthough it's the beginning of March
The sun is shining and the temperature today will be 17 degrees!

Everything looks extra nice with some sunshine. The trees already begin
to develop their fresh green leaves and the flowers appear in many colors.
It's so promising!

This all inspired me to make this illustration of a dancing girl.
Her hands form a big heart above her head, she celebrates life!
The title is 'love for life' and at this moment I really love it :)
How about you?

It's already available in my Etsy shop
Other places will follow...

Enjoy your Sunday and enjoy life!

Handsome Herbert postcard

Lately I'm experimenting with all kind of materials.
I work with papmaché, clay, collage, glue, pencils, ink...
It's fun and it brings new ideas, I even experimented with hair.

It resulted in Handsome Herbert, an original collage postcard with REAL breasthair :-))
You can find it in my Etsy shop

Happy weekend!

new valentine postcard: 'cats in love'

Valentine is coming soon. I made a brand new postcard:
'cats in love' their tails form a heart, isn't that romantic? :-)
If you like it, you can order it here

color your world

And again I've made a new print
It's called 'color your world'
It's available here

New print: Circus Cats

A cheerful, joyful and playful start of the year:
I made a brand new giclée print: Circus Cats
If you like you can purchase it in my Etsy shop

red cheeks

I made this red cheeks drawing some time ago.
It's now available as giclée art print here

opening winterwinkel

Yesterday I was at the opening of de Winterwinkel in Amsterdam.
I wrote about it in my last blogpost

It was very nice to see how the empty space, which I had seen the day before
had turned into a real shop, with a variety of nice products.

Very good to see how much work can be done by real team-work.
The organizing Ka-ching collectief seems to be a good team!

There were a lot of people, good to see also customers among them already :-)
It was also nice to meet other participants of this pop-up shop.

If you have a chance and you are in the neighbourhood,
you should have a look, it's very close to the Central Station.
in de Haarlemmerstraat 25. It's open till December the 1st.

Have a nice weekend!

new giclée print: can, want & do

This is one of my favorite sentences :-)

I now made an illustration of it and it's available as a giclée art print.
If you are interested, find it here

Red Cheeks Factory on Etsy

Today I opened a brand new shop on Etsy

You are very welcome to like, to buy products
and to follow Red Cheeks Factory on Etsy now too :-)