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SUMMER GARDEN INSECTS

2/10/2024

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In early summer I started this new project. I was going to make a new concertina book about insects in my own garden. So, every day for more than 3 months, I have been strolling in the garden, looking for any small creatures. Armed with my phone, I took pictures of snails, bees, bumblebees and beetles, butterflies and spiders, flies and mosquitoes. At first I was afraid that it wouldn't be possible to encounter a wide variety of insects but in the end, I'm quite happy with the result! Until now, I may be proud of the amazing amount of 72 different creatures with the most poetic Dutch names.

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PORTRAIT

15/5/2024

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What to do if you are out of inspiration but you, at all cost, want to put that pen to the paper? My solution is to copy a nice black and white photo. You don't have to think a lot and meanwhile you keep busy! I first drew a grid with squares from 1 to 1 cm. I did it on the photo and on my paper. After that you can start filing in all the squares just as you see it on the photo. Here I used stippling. Stippling is a drawing technique in which areas of light and shadow are created using nothing but dots. The basic idea is simple: for darker areas, you apply a greater number of dots and keep them close together. Then for progressively lighter areas, use fewer dots and space them farther apart. Below is the picture of my mother.  Underneath is my grandfather, the first portrait I made, using this technique. I realize now that the one with my grandfather was a lot easier to draw.

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SPRING GARDEN

1/5/2019

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Our garden has never ever been so beautiful in all it's glory of fluorescent shades of blue: wisteria, bluebells, forget-me-nots, and the radiant white flowers of the Mexican orange blossom and the Solomon's seal.  And each one of them has it's specific scent! We enjoy this view so much.  Within a few weeks the garden will have a totally different look! 


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LENTETUIN / SPRING GARDEN

30/4/2016

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                                                                                                   What was paradise
                                                                                                    but a garden, an orchard
                                                                                                    of trees and herbs, full of
                                                                                                    pleasure and nothing there
                                                                                                    but delights.

                                                                                                                                           WILLIAM LAWSON
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Slechts 3 weken tussen foto links en foto rechts, het groen groeit aan! De haagbeuk (Carpinus betulus) werpt zijn bruine bladeren af, de groene plooirokjes verschijnen.

Only 3 weeks between picture on the left and picture on the right, the green is growing! Hornbeam (Carpinus betulus) is getting rid of her brown leaves, her green pleated skirts are showing up.
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1952

25/12/2015

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Deze mooie zwart-witfoto van een winters Brugge werd in 1952 genomen door mijn vader. Kan iemand bedenken waar de foto genomen werd?

​This beautiful black-and-white-photo of a winterly Bruges was taken by my father in 1952.
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SPROOKJE/FAIRYTALE

24/12/2015

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Geen witte Kerst dit jaar. Deze foto van vele jaren geleden doet me wegmijmeren. Zo sprookjesachtig kan de winter zelfs hier zijn, maar we vergeten zo vlug.

No white Christmas this year. This picture, taken many years ago, makes me dream. So fairylike can winter be, even here. Quickly we forget.
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