JOKE BOUDENS LETTERING​
  • Home
  • About
  • recent work
  • Blog
  • Sale
  • Contact

LEONARD COHEN INSPIRED

9/11/2022

0 Comments

 
Afbeelding
0 Comments

END OF SUMMER

12/10/2022

1 Comment

 

My latest concertina book is the prime example of achieving a satisfying outcome despite of having little or no inspiration. I started with the vintage safety match box - found on the net - because of the sunflower. The writing and painting tools followed. And in the end I added the calendar where I filled in everyday temperature, measured promptly at noon. The whole book forms a unity because of the color yellow. The more wintertime approaches, the more I feel the urge to use warm color schemes because it makes me forget cold and mist and rain and the early dark of winter's evening.

Afbeelding
Afbeelding
Afbeelding
Afbeelding
1 Comment

STAMPS

6/4/2022

0 Comments

 

Two pages in my sketchbook. I have been re-working a stamps collection and chose for a limited color palette of 3 colors: orange, blue and light blue. I'm inspired by existing stamps but don't copy them. Some details are left out, certain fonts are adjusted and, anyhow, colors are customized. For orange and blue I used fine microns, light blue is executed in colored pencil. 

Foto
Foto
0 Comments

VINTAGE TOYS

23/2/2022

1 Comment

 

This space control toy in bright turquoise blue dates back to ca. 1950. I'm planning making many more drawings of old toys because  of a sense of nostalgia.  No one better than Bill Bryson to describe the spirit of time of the 50's and 60's:
"I knew how to relax in an armchair in more than one hundred positions and on the floor in approximately seventy-five more. I knew what the world looked like when viewed through a jelly-o lens. I knew how things tasted, pencil ferrules, coins and buttons ..."
This passage comes from "The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid", a book from 2006, describing Bill's youth growing up during the 1950s.  Highly recommended! For this drawing I used some Posca's and I refined the details with colored pencils.

Foto
1 Comment

QUOTE

9/2/2022

2 Comments

 
I'm a nature lover and a keen gardener and when I encountered this beautiful quote while surfing on the internet, I immediately knew I wanted to do something with it! When I make an illustration like this, in my sketchbook, I always start drawing a few small details in pencil, tracing the outlines with my fineliner and filling in the background, all with the same fine pigment liner. I never have a plan set out in advance, so I just draw and make it up as I go, and each decision I make creates a kind of set of rules to follow.  
Foto
Foto
2 Comments

EMILY DICKINSON

14/10/2021

1 Comment

 

I'm always inspired by nature, by plants and trees. And I keep coming back to the poems of Emily Dickinson because she was also a lover of nature. Sometimes when reading one of her poems, in my mind, I immediately see  what the following finished page in my sketchbook will look like. This illustration was done in one day, couldn't stop drawing. It's not always going smoothly like this though, sometimes I start a project, only terminating it after a long time.
​

Foto
1 Comment

LAVENDER

5/8/2021

0 Comments

 

Twice lavender. On the right side an embroidered piece from maybe twenty years ago. I used to be an embroidery teacher and this lavender in a pot was a design I made for my students to recreate. I came across it while searching on my PC and made this drawing yesterday.

Foto
Foto
0 Comments

EMBROIDERY AND PATTERN

24/5/2021

0 Comments

 

I have been teaching embroidery for over 30 years. One of the techniques in the curriculum was Blackwork. And, after so many years, this inspired me to fill two whole journals with drawn patterns. I started at the beginning of the Covid period and am now nearly at the end of my second book. I can recommend it to everyone: I think it is the best way to slowing down and relax! And it really is amazing how many different patterns you can come up with, just starting with a line, a dot, a square, rectangle or lozenge.

Foto
Foto
Foto
Foto
Foto
0 Comments

BOTTLE CAPS COLLECTION

17/3/2021

0 Comments

 

This  is a - nearly finished - drawing from a collection of bottle caps. I only used 3 different sizes of black pigment liners. Why did I choose for crown corks? Because there's such a big variety of type in them. It made me reflect on the fact that every design, how simple it may look, is carefully thought of. And there's only limited space! I learned a lot about type by making this drawing.

Foto
Foto
Foto
Foto
0 Comments

EMBROIDERY

8/10/2020

0 Comments

 
In my previous life I was an embroidery teacher and I loved practicing it till the last day. All my embroidery pieces are in a cardboard box now since many years. This is a needlepainting embroidery. I got my inspiration from Indian art and it represents a tree of life, a subject that frequently pops up  in folk art from all over the world.

Foto
0 Comments
<<Previous

    Author

    Joke Boudens

    Archives

    November 2022
    Oktober 2022
    September 2022
    Augustus 2022
    Juni 2022
    Mei 2022
    April 2022
    Maart 2022
    Februari 2022
    Januari 2022
    December 2021
    November 2021
    Oktober 2021
    September 2021
    Augustus 2021
    Juli 2021
    Juni 2021
    Mei 2021
    April 2021
    Maart 2021
    Februari 2021
    Januari 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    Oktober 2020
    September 2020
    Augustus 2020
    Juli 2020
    Juni 2020
    Mei 2020
    April 2020
    Maart 2020
    Februari 2020
    Januari 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    Oktober 2019
    September 2019
    Augustus 2019
    Juli 2019
    Juni 2019
    Mei 2019
    April 2019
    Maart 2019
    Februari 2019
    Januari 2019
    December 2018
    Oktober 2018
    September 2018
    Augustus 2018
    Juni 2018
    Mei 2018
    April 2018
    Maart 2018
    Februari 2018
    Januari 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    September 2017
    Augustus 2017
    Juli 2017
    Juni 2017
    Mei 2017
    April 2017
    Maart 2017
    Februari 2017
    Januari 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    Oktober 2016
    September 2016
    Augustus 2016
    Juli 2016
    Juni 2016
    Mei 2016
    April 2016
    Maart 2016
    Februari 2016
    Januari 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015

    Categories

    Alles
    Aquarel/watercolour
    Bladgoud/gold Leaf
    Borduren/embroidery
    Concertina Books
    Familie/family
    Fineliner
    Fotografie/photography
    Gouache
    Inspiratie/inspiration
    Kevers En Zo/beetles And So
    Kleurpotloodcolor Pencil
    Kunst/art
    Letters/lettering
    Linosnede/linocut
    Media
    Natuur/nature
    Poëzie/poetry
    Schetsboek/sketchbook
    Tentoonstelling / Exhibition
    Verkoop/sale
    Weggevertje/giveaway
    Workshop

    RSS-feed

    Copyright Joke Boudens 2015. All images and content are the property of Joke Boudens  unless otherwise noted.
COPYRIGHT 2015 JOKE BOUDENS