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 :-)

illustrations time management

Here are two illustrations I've made from a series about time management.
Using the good old circus techniques as an inspiration :-)

illustrations for presentation

These are some of the illustrations of a series
I have made for a presentation about software building blocks.

sunny twins

we can use some sunshine...

sunny twins for my twins-project

my mom's geranium

Today it's 3 years ago my mom passed away...

The day she died, there was a geranium on her table in her garden.
I took this plant with me, to take care of it.

The year after we took slips from it and now we have a whole bunch of geraniums.

Some of my brothers and sisters also have some slips,
and they are making new ones too...

So my mom is still alive in our memories and in her geranium(s)...

Here you can see my mom when she was young. It's the girl on the right side
I love this photo. Her and her friend's enthusiasm, their clothes and their attitude. :-)

Last year I wrote another blogpost about her: far away, but still near

And the year before I posted this one: to honour my mom

moon serenade for SMART exhibition

I made 'moon serenade' for the SMART exhibition
at Light Grey Art Lab in Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA).
The exhibition is from Friday May 17th until June 7th.

'The SMART exhibition is a collection of clever, thoughtful,
and whimsical artwork' (yes, that's what they say ;-))
made by 35 international artists.


If you like, you can order moon serenade here

moustache twins

Because twins and moustaches inspire me,
I've made these moustache twins

Now available as postcard in the Red Cheeks Factory shop

print of the week: red nose brigade

The new 'print of the week' is: red nose brigade
Have a very nice week :-)

IF: tribute

A tribute to Penelope Dullaghan.

About ten years ago Penelope started illustration friday:
a weekly illustration challenge around a theme.

At first only a few illustrators were joining,
but in these ten years it grew out to a huge illustration community.
An inspiring blog, artist interviews and ofcourse the weekly challenge.
I have submitted many illustrations, the themes are often inspring.

Now Penelope has decided to focus on other things
She will leave Illustration Friday, but the I.F will continue
Thank you Penelope for all the inspiration and good luck in the future!

This dancing elephant is now available as postcard in my shop