working on a party-train.

One of the strangest environments I worked as a caricature-artist I was some days ago.

It was on a train. A party train. A group of a company makes a round trip on a train during a day and evening and haves a lot of fun. Drinking cocktails eating nice food.

The train did a traject between Baarn - Den Bosch - Haarlem - Baarn.

In Den Bosch the group was having a siteseeing and shopping day. But the most op the group weren't shopping but went to a terras drinking. So when they came back in the train they were all very happy of the drinks. Together with the cocktails served in the train. A lot of them Had a little to much. In Haarlem the group had to get out the train to see a performance of a singer.

For me it was a very heavy job. The shaking of the train, the guests who drunk a little to much and the space in the train which is very small.

I did survive it and now I look back to a strange , but funny experience.

de toekomst

Last week I had a job drawing caricatures during a sailing trip. The ship is a zeetjalk as they call it in Dutch . The name of this ship was de Toekomst ( the future)It's 27,5 meter long and 5,60 wide and can have groups up to 60 persons.

This day a group of 50 persons were having a day trip from Enkhuizen to Urk and back.

We were really sailing during the whole trip on the IJsselmeer. That's a big lake now, but it was a sea. The Dutch made a big dike and won land from the sea. The destination Urk used to be an island. It's now part of the new land. We had a pleasant day. There was a strong wind, so i had to draw in an angle of 45. On the one side I saw water, on the other side the air. That was a strange experience.

Here are some more photo's.

Tjeerd Bomhof of the Duttch Band Voicst

One of the best bands in the netherlands is Voicst. Check their music.http://www.voicst.com/On the last edition of PINKPOP, that's one of the biggest rock/pop festivals in the Netherlans they gave a great performance.Their last cd cover and a photo of the singer Tjeerd Bomhof in a music magazine inspired me to make this caricature.

recent live work april - may 2008

Sjaak Lucassen motor globe totter

Some weeks ago I was invited to go to a lecture of Sjaak Lucassen.
He is a motor driver who has globe trotting on a motorbike as his profession.
On a Yamaha YZF R1 he travelled round the world in 5 years and 5 months .
This motor is a race motor.
Not the first motor you think about when you want to travel the world.
But Sjaak went everywhere , Africa, Asia , South and north America.
The whole trip was 250.000 km. You can read about it in his site http://www.sjaaklucassen.nl/
(There’s an English version too.)
During this tour he wrote his travel-story for many motor magazines.
Now back home in the Netherlands he tells his story with a PowerPoint presentation to make money for his next world tour. With photo’s and video’s and a lot of humour Sjaak entertains the audience.
During this presentation I made a caricature of him.
It was my present to Sjaak to tell him he’s doing a great job and to thank him for his story.
After his presentation I found out that my Dutch colleague Thijz joined him for the last part from France to the Netherlands. He also made a caricature of Sjaak.