swing it out!

These are two illustrations of a series musicians I've made:

Miss Sunshine

and suddenly she was there: Miss Sunshine...

It is really summer in Holland, the sun is shining here for weeks now
Not like the normal summers in Holland
and I love it :-))

2000!

It's almost unbelievable, but my facebookpage reached 2000 likes!
For this special occasion I've made a party illustration

If you wanna join the party, you are welcome!
Here you can find my Red Cheeks Factory facebookpage

Have a wonderful weekend. Here it's still sunny :-)

kröller müller museum

Yesterday I went with my brother to Park de Hoge Veluwe and
the Kröller Müller Museum .

It is the perfect combination of art and nature.

In the museum there's a combination of old paintings and modern art.
When we saw this sculpture of Bruce Nauman
I had to think of the blog: Jumping in Art Museums:

We joined this blog with a Ayako Rokkaku jump
two summers ago with a big jump in the Kunsthal.

So I asked my brother again for a jump and he did :-)

Next to the museum is a sculpture garden. Very beautiful!
You'd better say a sculpture forest. It is huge and such a nice combination:
sculptures pop up in nature everywhere

and when you look around you see art in 'normal' things
I suddenly saw these eyes staring at me :-)

In the Museum they also have a huge 'Vincent van Gogh' collection.
The famous dutch painter. I wrote about him before
We saw a lot of his paintings: landscapes, portraits, dark ones
and also some of his drawings, which I liked very much!

Before you enter the museum you first have to cross a forest and a heathland
We found a lovely place to eat our lunch

Above is one of the sculptures you can go inside
and enter a beautiful black and white world.

It was a great visit, we didn't see all yet,
so we certainly will go back another time!

which girl you like more?

Sometimes it's difficult to choose...

I'm designing the two color design for next weeks screenprint workshop
I've made two versions, so now I need to choose...

There are some subtile differences:
The first girl carries her cat in her arms and has a smile on her face.
The second girl uses her cat as a musical instrument and sings a song

I don't know yet, which one to choose, so, it would be very nice
to hear from you which girl you like the most and why
Hopefully it helps me to choose one :-)

Thanks in advance!!
Have a wonderful weekend!

first screenprint

Yesterday I went to a screenprint workkshop at the mesh print club

A short workshop to learn the basic principles of screenprinting.
The first assignment was to make a design in one color.
I've made this girl with bird. (little cheating in the one color design,
I'm happy with her red cheeks :-))

I got a lot of information and learned new things, so I forgot to make pictures.
But there are two more workshop evenings.
Maybe I can show some pictures then, if I'm not too busy ;-)

Next time we are going to print a two color design.
I like the challenge of the limitation.

it's raining sunshine

local depression

cucumber twins

here comes the sun, doobie, doobie...

cucumber twins twins-project

hatsjoe!

Well, this is how I feel today, I must say: not funny at all!
hatsjoe, hatsjoe, hatsjoe...

cheers!

bon apetit!

Most of the time I draw people or animals, that's what I like the most.

Because I am making some illustrations for a new upcoming Dutch Stock Agency
I challenge myself to draw some oher things than only people
For example this blue table and guess what? I like that too...
maybe because I like drawing ;-)

Happy weekend and bon apetit!

cheers!

and now for something completely romantic... ;-)

soccer players

I've made a series of soccer player drawings:

I like the movement in these drawings, it's almost a soccer player ballet :-)

inspiration: Harriët van Reek

Today I visited the exhibition Edith & Egon Schiele
In the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag: a fantastic exhibition
with drawings of one of my favourite illustrators: Harriët van Reek

Harriët made a children art book inspired by this painting
It is the only painting of Schiele exhibited in the museum.

The exhibition shows original illustrations from the book
and also prelimanary studies Harriët made for Edith & Egon Schiele

It is very nice to see the painting style of Schiele back in Harriët's drawings.
She also made the text for the book and both (drawings and text)
are full of humor and delicacy. It's touching too.

This is book number 10 in the series of children picture art books (in dutch) which are published in cooperation with the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag.

To my dutch readers:
Als je in de buurt bent, zou ik zeggen, gaan!!!
Ik vond het echt dik genieten :-)

Urlaub: illustration and concept store

We have a new store in Holland:

Urlaub

It is a whole new illustration and concept store in Utrecht
(in the center of our country)
It's open for a few weeks now.

The creative brain behind this all is Ellen Vesters
Ellen is an enthusiastic, social and generous illustrator.
She has a great organizing and 'bringing together' talent.

I think it's a brilliant idea to name your shop and studio: Urlaub,
the German word for holiday... When you go to your work,
you also go on holiday ;-) I love this kind of creativity!

Besides a real shop and studio, Urlaub openend also a webshop
where they sell their beautiful stuff:
prints, zines, postcards and so much more!

I'm happy Ellen asked me if she could sell some of my prints and postcards
too in her Urlaub shop. I'm in good company there :-)

I didn't see the real life shop yet, but I certainly will go there and have a look
and meet Günther, the doorman with the sun glasses
When he's outside, Urlaub is open :-)

beyond your flexibility

I've made a new series yoga drawings. Here are some of them:

candle

bridge

triangle

downward dog

Marché du Nord

Today I was at the art market: Marché du Nord.
It was a part of Route du Nord I had my own Red Cheeks Factory stand

It was a very nice day. I got a lot of enthusiastic reactions on my work
and I've met very nice people and also did good business :-)

Here you see some photos of my stand.
I think I will do some more markets like these in the future.

Route du Nord

As I said I participate, with many other artists,
in an exhibition this weekend: Route du Nord
It's an Art Festival including Art, Music and Performances.

For this exhibition I selected nine faces from my face a day project.
It is the first time they are in an exhibition.

Today the prints I ordered where ready. For this occasion
I had them sticked on aluminium. Very nice, tight and bright.
We have put them up, not an easy job to get them straight,
but we made it :-)

Friday night will be the opening of the festival
and it continues the whole weekend. I will be there too.
So if people wanna come by and say hello, you are welcome!

postcard rack

I'm preparing myself for an exhibition coming weekend.
It's in my own hometown, even in my own neighboorhood.
I will write about it later this week...

There's also a small Art Market on Sunday, where I will sell my giclée art prints.
I'm also gonna sell Red Cheeks Factory postcards.
Today I found a postcard rack, where all my A6 postcards fit in.
I always wanted to have such a rack, and now I have one :-)

For the dutch readers of my blog:
Het rek is te koop bij de HEMA
(of all places ;-))

playing with shadow

Today the sun is shining and when it is,
the world looks so much nicer.
All colors are more bright and intense
and people look more happy...

I also love the shadow of things. It gives an extra dimension.
It shows things in another way...

I like to play with these shadows
This is my owm shadow and I had a lot of fun playing with it

Oh beautiful sun, keep on shining!
for the rest of the summer
thank you :-)