De Coole Cowboy

My new book is out!!! It is called 'De Coole Cowboy' and was written by Tjibbe Veldkamp. The story is about a little boy and a girl. The boy fantasises about being a cowboy. Then the girl disturbs his fantasy by making up castles and knights, that don't fit in a cowboy fantasy. The result is an exciting adventure in which the two constantly try to 'outfantasise' each other.
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Sint is back in town...

pictures

The first drawing depicts the infamous Jules Deelder. The second sketch is a quick study of the actor Ron Perlman.

The final illustration I did for U&UWV. I like the retro style, playing with the picture elements in a very graphic way.

SMURF!

I have had the honor to cooperate on a TV-commercial for Albert Heijn. Hollands biggest supermarket. The commercial is about the smurfs that you can get for free when you do your shopping at AH. It was my job to design the Harry character, and to paint all of the Backgrounds. I had a lot of fun doing this job, and also I learned a lot about animation, since it was my first animation project. The storyboard was done by the great Daan Jippes and the movie was directed by Hans Buying.


As you can see this is the evolution of the Harry character. I had to navigate between likeness and smurfness...

Parrot and gorilla

Old gorilla and a parrot. Illustrations for a column....

What's up doc?

Illustration for an article about people who are happy at work, so they never stay home saying they're ill.

Door en Door winter

These are some sketches and an illustration for an upcoming book called 'Door en Door winter'

John Singer Sargent

The greatest painter the world has ever seen. If there is anything you want to know about painting; check out John Singer Sargents work. He had all the answers.

I very often stare at his amazingly well placed brushstrokes, his unbelieveable understanding of color, and his virtuosity in seeing and translating form into brush ore pencilstrokes. Not even to mention his portraits.



A lot of his work can be seen

here

This illustration is 14 inch × 20 inch, gouache on heavy grain watercolor paper.

Book cover

This is a book that just came out.
The illustration is about the three most prominent writers of the Netherlands: Gerard Reve, Harry Mulisch and Willem Frederik Hermans, fighting over the prize for best writer, a golden Apple.
The illustration was done in gouache.