At first I found it hard getting the creative juices flowing during the first few weeks of quarantine. But now that I’m able to enjoy some days of Easter holidays, I have finally found the time to start a project that’s been on my ‘to draw list’ for ages… decorating skateboards.
It was the death of Bill Withers that has got me started. I used my Posca markers but I only had a white and black one available, so I’m not quite satisfied with the white-looking version of Bill. The day after I drew E, using the skateboard background as skintone. A few days later I decided to draw Amy Winehouse (someone pointed out to me that I always draw men and I don’t know why but I guess there is some truth to it, so I had to prove him wrong :-). In the meantime some extra Posca markers have arrived but skintonewise I had to make do with a white one and one light orange, but I discovered that you can also add water and work with a pencil on the Posca ‘paint’.
Here’s my favourite Amy song (that I partially wrote on the skateboard)
I hope everyone is safe and sane out there and I truly hope everyone has got someone to lean on.
I don’t have to tell any of you parents out there how hard it is to combine working @ home and keeping your kids from tearing your place apart.
My youngest still naps, but my oldest isn’t really skilled (yet?) at keeping herself entertained during that so called siesta. She has tons of energy and the only thing that seems to calm her down is …. listening to stories! Especially those her mom tells her … so… since the start of the Corona lockdown I’ve been reading and recording one story a day. Afterwards she can listen to the story 6 times over with her headphones on and I can get some work done!
On this link you can listen to 4 stories from week 1:
I have no idea why I wrote this post in English when all the stories are Dutch 🙂 ??
If you want to download the stories, just send me a pm.
If you have one of these books at home, the accordion sound (she does this herself) is the signal to turn the page.
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This summer I made a large painting of the robin that was on Lene’s birth announcement. Rose got kind of jealous and has been asking me over and over when I am finally going to make ‘her’ bird. So today, I finally made time. I’m not one 100% satisfied with the result (the eye being too big and the legs too small), but I hope she’ll like it when she gets home…
It was my first time working on such a grand scale (2m-1m) and I liked it, really relaxing (yet stressful at the same time 🙂 I did the girls’ birds in Ecoline drawing ink (my favourite for colouring) and added details in pencil and crayon (both oil & pastel)
I don’t know why, but I really like drawing birds…
I bought myself an iPad last summer. I started experimenting with colouring some sketches I did on two lovely American writers: John Steinbeck and Edgar Allan Poe. Here’s the result:
I don’t know where the sailors keep coming from, but here they are… I’m a big fan of Stephan Vanfleteren. When I see his pictures, I always end up drawing them. (I’m not sure if that’s allowed, but you could call it fan art, right?) There’s something imperfect, yet captivating about the faces he catches on film. Here’s my take on his sailor. I made a quick sketch in my sketchbook and then he ended up on my computer one evening. He turned out different than the version of my favourite photographer, yet I still quite like him. Oh captain, my captain!
I’ve been working on this sailor for too long and I have decided that he’s finished even though I’m not satisfied with the result. The idea was that the sailor would be entirely covered with inspirational tattoos but the project turned out to be too time-consuming, so I threw in the towel halfway. Maybe he just needed one extra tattoo ‘don’t give up, even when you’re stuck’
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