Job in Rome

During the holiday I made this watercolor of our son Job. He likes the romans culture a lot. So that's why he's dressed as a roman general.

kader abdolah

During a holiday trip to Amalfi Italy I had the time to do some watercolor paintings.

This one is from the writer Kader Abdolah who wrote his version of the koran.

new caricatures

These are some caricatures done for the NCN forum. Every month there's a new challenge.
The first one I already posted Boris Jeltsin.
The Matt Damon was for April and Marilin Manson was for May.

Dalai Lama

This one is older than the Boris serie. I made this one at the end of january.

I intend to make a serie of caricatures in watercolor of all kind of persons. Politicians, rockstars,actors etc. and hope to get better and better with this technique.

Boris

In the februari there was a drawing challenge on the NCN forum of carcaturists. All member carciaturists were asked to make a ( non digital) drawing of the former Russian president Boris Jeltsin. Ther are great caricatures send in by the many participators.

Because I am lately busy for fun with watercolor paint I decided to do this challenge with this technique.


The first one I wasn't completely happy with the likeness. The second the likeness is there. And the thirth carcature I made because I didn't like the very blue background color and I wanted to make on from another angle. I am happy with the results sofar. Of course now I see the things that can be done better the next time. But that's allways .... your best work is the one you haven't made yet,but will make in future.

CU 2008 Oosterbeek

Last week I joined the caricaturist convention. 3 days in a hotel in Oosterbeek Netherlands with 22 collegues from all parts of the world. Belgium, Netherlands, UK, Scotland, USA, Japan, Iran.

We had a great time drawing each other. Learning from each other.It was such fun. I even won one of the competitions. Best cartoon style caricature. I must say there were not many cartoons, but still I am very proud to win the wacom bamboo. There were so many diffirent styles and techniques to see.

I am satisfied with the serie I produced these days.

We were drawing day and night. It gives a great creative boost. After 3 day the working room is full of drawing material. The walls hung with great caricatures.Every artist uses her/his own style and technique. Some worke in black and white, others in colour. All kind of pencils, markers,paint. Also digital caricatures were made during these days. We went to the local pub to make caricatures of the public. Had a lot of fun doing a drawing game. So 3 day working, eating, drinking together is a great event to start the year.

This is the cartoon I won the prize with. Mike told us after a day work and an evening drinking about his relationship with sheep. That night I was dreaming about where that can lead to and made a cartoon of it the next morning.

Mick Hollinworth won a lot of prizes. He made some great caricatures. He told everybody that he was a coalminer and did many jobs before he became carictusist. He is my working class hero of this convention. Check his website http://www.mickscaricatures.co.uk/

The most I was impressed by the work of Emi from Japan. She made great illustrative caricatures. Every carcature she gave another atmosphere with a lot of humor. She did one of me with my hair looks like the wings of a bird of prey. Here she makes the prize winning caricature. Congratulations Emi!

I.M.Frans

I could not write about this for a long time.

In november one of my best friends Frans died on the age of 47. After a long time being ill he decided to stop. A big decision. The biggest in live. We were friends for more than 30 years. Together with his partner and 7 more friends we were with him the last hours of his live. These were very intense, memorable hours with laughing, crying, music, wine, beautifull words. It was a great experience, strange to say. I rather have Frans back, in healty state, but that was not possible anymore. Every friend brought a personal item that remebered to Frans that day.
I brought a Jacques Brel record with the song "the Moribond" in which Brel sings "c'est dur de mourir au printemps". In this song he says goodby before dieing. "it's hard to die in the spring of your live"

Frans was a wise man. I learned a lot from him. He was always looking for the reason in live. We had good discussions. Untill the last moment he spoke with us about live. He studied many religions and non-religions from catholic, Jehova-withness, atheïst..etc.
He came to the conclusion that the most important in live is LOVE.
I loved you Frans. I still do. Thanks for being you friend.