Doodles

Doodles from a fashion-magazine. Great to do that again!:)

weirdo

It's a thrill to see yourself draw (!), but the whole process of recording is too elaborate for my taste. It actually gives me an uncomfortable feeling. So here's my last video...

Sketching from a fashion-magazine

One day I'll fly away

While still thinking of 'La Dame aux Camelias' I set out yesterday to go and watch 'Moulin Rouge' for the first time. I've read it's partly inspired by the book. Or if you ask me a great deal. I was very delighted to discover that Satine (Nicole Kidman) sings 'One day I'll fly away'. This song (which is in fact one of my all-time favourites) makes for me the movie especially valuable. Here's a memorysketch I just made of Satine and some musical scribbles of the song. Somehow for me it was extremely difficult to figure out which exact chords to use. The melody is somewhat melancholy and eery at the same time. It allowed me to put in many dissonants, and I always like that.

LA DAME AUX CAMÉLIAS

Today I read the whole book of 'La Dame aux Camélias', also known as 'Camille'. It doesn't happen to me often that I'm 'sucked' into the story. Instead of drawing all day -which was my intention in the first place- I was transported to the world of 19th century Paris. And in the end I just sobbed tears while reading the heartbreaking story of the love-affair between Marguerite Gautier and Armand Duval.
Perhaps one day I'll make a painting regarding the story and name it 'Marguerite'; a name I've come to appreciate very much.

Blue Too

Feeling blue

stuff

Some sketches of the prince I posted earlier on, and a quick illustration.

thumbnails

A week ago I asked a girl from an Alpha-course I'm following, if I could make a portrait of her. She said it was OK, and tomorrow I can shoot some pictures of her. But I totally forgot to work out some composition for the painting/photos!! These I drew just now, ...some of them taken from Sargent-paintings, others from the net or just from the imagination. I want to make it work, because it seldom happens to me that I can use a real model!

warming-up

A warming-up drawing I did yesterday (from a photograph), while preparing to do a caricature-like painting; hopefully very soon. It's drawn at my maximumspeed, but I like its spontaneity.

Garden of Ed(i)e(n)

With the weather today, my parent's garden was truly enchanted! It covers a large area of rockformations, old twisted treetrunks, little rivers and the most peculiar plantlife. Here are three shots I took today of a portion of it.

Fairytales#2

Another illustration for the 'fairytale' series I'm working on. As soon as possible, I'll post the link of the wonderfull website where the illustrations are used.

sketches

FAIRYTALES

Two in a LARGE series of illustrations I'm making for an assignment. As of today, I'm also living back in Doorn again, with my parents, for a period of 4 months. It makes me feel blue, because...as it often happens, you don't know what you've got 'till it's gone. Only know I realise how precious and special the time is when you're a student living the 'studentlive'..in a large city with friends and freedom. It's hitting me like a ton of bricks..and I'm going to play the piano.

sketch and illustration

A sketch and the eventual illustration. I like the sketch way more, but a la, I'm new at Painter.

more scribbles

comic strip

Our modest attempt..; it's about two pigs who are very happy with their new home. Proud enough to 'claim their right' as stock, and to take control. As the camera zooms out it becomes clear to us what actually happened: the pigs have been transferred to a 'Varkensflat': a 'Piglets-flat' where they will be chopped into meat ready for consumption. In the last frame you see two butchers laughing out loud become of the whole irony of the situation.