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Although my favorite color is yellow, I also like blue in all its different shades. And since I love patterns, the link was quickly made to draw a range of vases, plates and Chinese porcelain. The philosophy behind also matters: being busy drawing feels like Zen meditation, where the goal is to achieve a state of inner peace and clarity.
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A glimpse into one of my small Moleskine sketchbooks. The only material I used here was a black fineliner. The texture of the paper is pleasantly soft and quite thick so that the ink doesn't bleed through. I love working in black and white but, on the otherhand, I am very fond of colors. Next time, I'll be posting some colorful pages in another Moleskine sketchbook.
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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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Third International Calligraphy Exhibition in Bruges, 1989.
For several years, an exhibition about lettering art was set up in a beautifully restored house in a small dead-end street in Bruges, Belgium. Every three years, during summer, people could visit this internationally renowned exhibit and enjoy a magnificent setting. If I'm not mistaken, there have been 8 exhibitions in total. A select gathering of internationally renown calligraphers and letter carvers as such had never happened before.
For several years, an exhibition about lettering art was set up in a beautifully restored house in a small dead-end street in Bruges, Belgium. Every three years, during summer, people could visit this internationally renowned exhibit and enjoy a magnificent setting. If I'm not mistaken, there have been 8 exhibitions in total. A select gathering of internationally renown calligraphers and letter carvers as such had never happened before.
From left to right:
Top: Eric Marland (UK)-Oswald Schelstraete (B)-Sepp Jacob (D)-Oswald Schneider (D)-Jef Bultynck (B)-Werner Schneider (D)- Kristoffel Boudens (B)-Zhang Din (CH)
Bottom: John Skelton (UK)-Sarah More (UK)-Claude Mediavilla (F)-Els Baeckelandt (B)-Elmo Van Slingerland (NL)-Goedele Soetewey (B) - Jef Boudens (B)-Pieter Boudens (B)-Christine Wagner (D)-Joke Boudens (B)
Not in the picture: Will Carter (UK), Kevin Cribb (UK), Gerald Fleuss (UK), Gaynor Goffe (UK), Roger Gorrindo (F), Franck Jalleau (F), Jean-Claude Lamborot (F), Jean Larcher (F), Nadine Lebacq (B), John Nash (UK), Hannu Paalasma (SF),
David Parsley (UK), Tom Perkins (UK), Katharina Pieper (D), Leonid Pronenko (USSR), John Stevens (USA), François Thivolle (F), Jack Throwbridge (UK), Ernst Vollmer (D), Mary White (D)
A small selection of the exhibited work:
Elmo Van Slingerland Werner Schneider
John Stevens
Kevin Cribb Kristoffel Boudens Tom Perkins
Sepp Jacob Pieter Boudens
Katharina Pieper Sarah More
Christine Wagner Leonid Pronenko
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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.
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I like to draw plants in a medieval way ánd I love this poem from Edwin Morgan about strawberries. And so, the two came together in my sketchbook. Don't know if I'm going to add some colors or not, what do you think?
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Back in 2000 I designed this poetic text for a headstone. At the time I just started drawing Roman capitals. Looking back now, I'm not too disappointed but spacing between letters and words could be a lot better. I don't like the ligature on the second line and the tail of the R is too weak. This design would benefit to be improved :) The text is from a German poet, Rainer Maria Rilke. Here it has been translated in Dutch, and I'll try to translate into English, as good as I can :
It is time
It was a great summer
Now put the shadow on the sundials
and let the wind float over the fields
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I'm into blue and white pottery these last few months. It's not that I go crazy over Chinese bone, but I admire those artists from the distant past who were incredibly talented and inventive and I love to immortalize their art in my sketchbook. The illustration is accompanied by an inspiring text about beauty from the book 'El Profeta' by Kahlil Gibran.
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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.
