More watercolor practise

This is a watercolor of the 'oude haven', where I made several ink drawings as well. It is truly an adventure, exploring the possibilities of the medium.

Maassluis

This is a watercolor I did of Maassluis. I think watercolor is a difficult medium, so I want to do more studies to get a grip of the medium. I tend to overpaint a watercolor, and in this on I succeeded in keeping the layers simple. I want to keep the darker values even more open.

More ink drawings

freezing cold

Today I went outside into thefreezing cold to do another pen and ink drawing. With my hand frozen, I managed to put some ink on my paper. The drawing depict the oude haven in Rotterdam. Time for hot chocolate now....

Ink

This drawing was made with ink and reed pen. I love doing these sketches.

The drawing depicts Veerhaven in Rotterdam.

Harry Mulisch

Portrait of the dutch writer Harry Mulisch (31 x 24 inch Mixed media: acrylics, colored pencil structure mediums)

ollie the elephant

Illustration for another of the gestreepte boekjes. (www.degestreepte boekjes.nl)

Muzz

This is a drawing of my band. (www.muzz.nl) It is a new design for the Muzz website.

Skullduggery Pleasant

This is an illustration for Skullduggery Pleasant. A novel by Derek Landy, about the adventures of a 12-year-old girl who is heir to a mysterious fortune and her fully articulated skeleton mentor.

Noor and her runaway parents

Noor and her runaway parents, that's the translated title of a dutch book I've been doing illustrations for. It was a lot of fun, making illustrations about a girl whose parents instantly left one day, leaving a small note and some money.
It was a challenge to use only black, white and grey, and create different layers with these elements.

The cool cowboy

These are some sketches and colour studies I made for the children's book I am still working on:

The cool cowboy. A story about two children fantasising. The boy wants to be a cowboy, and the girl a prinsess.

Elections

Some of the electable politicians for the upcoming elections in Holland....

Krukel #3

These are illustrations I did for the third part of the 'Krukel' books. ( published in English with the title: " Urchin of the riding stars" -with other cover illustrations -. The script has been sold to Miramax, so maybe there will be a film of the book) The illustrations are for the Dutch publication of the book.
I wanted to capture an adventurous atmosphere, of squirrels sneeking out in the dead of the night, and others exploring caves underground.
The third picture is an illustration for the back of the book, so text will be put over the clouds.
The last picture is just an idea of what the layout will be.

Santana

Here's a sketch of Santana. I want to do a painting of it, maybe in oils. I hope I can find the time, since I am really busy doing children's book illustrations and book covers. I'll post them later on.

w.f.hermans

I am doing a book cover that includes the caricatures of some of Hollands most famous writers. this is one of the sketches: W.F. Hermans