Category: Kleurpotloodcolor Pencil

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.

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.

I'm immortalizing important objects in my life. When I was 19 years old I made an adventurous trip to Afghanistan. Along the way, in the pasar in Istanbul, I bought this so-called kelim. Its actual colors have faded, but for this color pencil drawing I've brightened them up!

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SKETCHBOOK

10/6/2020

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Just a new page in my big sketchbook. These names are of people who mysteriously disappeared at sea during the last 75 years and whose whereabouts remain unknown. Many disappeared while on voyages or traveling via aircraft. I thought it a worthy opportunity to pay attention to these sad cases.

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GRANDPA'S DIARIES

24/1/2020

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I'm working on a book, inspired by the journals of my maternal grandfather. The biggest part of his diaries is about World War I, but there are also stories and anekdotes of when he was a child, getting into mischief with his friends. He grew up in a very small village in West-Flanders where his father was a forester for a castle's lord. At the age of 16, he emigrated to the USA with his parents, brother and little sister. It's been a revelation to read these two diaries and to find out how his life was. I've already made a page about his life during WWI and I hope that other pages will follow!

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TORINO

16/10/2019

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I've been very fortunate to host a workshop in Torino, Italy. A city that I didn't visit yet and I was pleasantly surprised by its beauty and its old history! Since I came back, I started a new concertina book about all the fantastic things I saw. Below, you can see a small map of the city center where I taught and where I stayed in a splendid palazzo. And how much I enjoyed drawing this map as precise as possible! I'm pretty sure that I'm going to draw other maps in the future.

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JAZZ FOR CHILDREN

4/7/2019

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Not my own work this time, but from my talented daughter. For her Master's project she worked on this children's book about jazz and jazz musicians. Since the target audience are children, she used animals alternating with musicians and charming short stories about their lives. There was also a CD included with songs from the book. Below some spreads of JAZZZOO!

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May 29th, 2019

29/5/2019

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A few weeks ago I was blessed with a group of enthusiastic students for a colored pencil workshop. A butterfly is, of course, a rewarding topic for study and spring is the perfect time of the year to do this. It's been two most enjoyable days where everyone learned about the different types of pencils, best papers to work on and best techniques to draw a photo-realistic butterfly. Using colored pencils is much more than just coloring, it's building up layer by layer and I'm sure that every student in the class can agree with me that working with colored pencils helps to create a feeling of calmness and Zen!

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HOLIDAY MODE

14/8/2017

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Daar ik nog in vakantie modus ben, wil ik me verontschuldigen dat jullie niet veel nieuwe berichten te zien krijgen. Dit is een vlinder die ik schilderde net voor mijn vertrek naar Engeland, een opdrachtje voor een huwelijkscadeau. Het koppeltje wilde een kleurrijke vlinder met beide namen erbij en de illustratie zal waarschijnlijk gebruikt worden voor de uitnodiging.

Since I'm still in holiday mode, I hope you'll excuse me from not showing up with a lot of new posts. This is a butterfly I painted just before leaving for England, a commission for a wedding present. The couple wanted a colorful butterfly with both names and it will probably be used for the wedding invitation.

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REUZENKEVERS / GIANT BEETLES

24/7/2017

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Ik vind het leuk om nu en dan met kleurpotloden te werken. Het is een erg rustgevende bezigheid. Met wat goede muziek op de achtergrond kan ik uren doorgaan. Je werkt altijd in laagjes. Een gekleurde potloodtekening kan gemakkelijk dertig tot veertig lagen kleur bevatten. Door de doorschijnende eigenschappen van dit medium speelt het wit van het papier een belangrijke rol in dit proces.

Now and then, I love to work with color pencils. It's a very easeful activity. With some good music in the background I can go on for hours. It's a real build-up job. A colored pencil drawing can easily have thirty to forty layers of color applied. Because of the translucent qualities of this medium, the white of the paper plays an important role in this proces.

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