Mice Designs

Some mouse-character designs I did for 'De Belastingdienst' Sadly the project was cancelled. I had a lot of fun working on it though!

Norway

I spent two weeks in Norway. It is a very beautiful country with very inspiring landscapes....

W.I.P.

Sneak peek of the illustration I am working on. Duffy. Acrylics....

Michael Jackson R.I.P.

This illustration can also be seen in the Drawger Michael Jackson tribute gallery.

Plein air 29-06-2009

Gouache and watercolor sketch. I had to work fast because of the setting sun.

Hulk Hogan

Digital sketch, Photoshop.

Plein air

Quick gouache and watercolor sketch at a factory.

The bird

Because of its size (1.20 cm x 60 cm , oils) I was unable to take really good pictures of this painting. (I have to learn how to do that properly some day) , so the subleties in the colors and skin tones are a bit lost here. However the main idea of what the painting is about still comes across.

Editorial illustration

Portrait sketch

Photoshop

Having fun with my Cintiq.

plein air 07-06-2009

I had a lot of fun doing this outdoor painting (oils: 12' x 10'). The colors on my palette were: Ultramarine, Cerulean blue, Yellow ochre, Burnt sienna and Burnt Umber. I accented the path and the yellow grass to lead the eye to the focal point: the tree.

Portrait sketches

Gouache sketches.

Plein air 01-06-2009

I have been wanting to do a sketch of this site for a long time. Besides the difficult perspective, I had a hard time watersketching, because I was standing on a windy and bouncing bridge, constantly being disturbed by curious pedestrians and a quickly moving sun.
Sketching on the spot is a great way to come up with color keys, that are almost impossible to create when working from a photograph. Being a part of the environment you are painting, lets you make descisions that are essential to capture mood and atmosphere.

Quick sketch

Very quick sketch at the Zuiderpark today. The small size of the sketch forces me not to go into detail. I took little time to create the sketch, so I had to make descisions fast. This kept me focused on the main values of the composition.

Urban gouache sketch

Even an ugly city like Rotterdam can be fun to draw. I am using a very limited palette, using only ultramarine blue, yellow ochre, chinese red ,violet and white. Using a limited palette gives you the oportunity to get creative mixing colors, and the image gets tied together.

sketch

I often grab a book or a magazine and make sketches of the pictures in it. It is fun to do, and a great way to explore new sketching techniques and keep up my drawing skills...

Belgium

I spent the weekend in Belgium, Ardennen. The weather was beautiful, and the environment beautiful. These are a few gouache/watercolor sketches.

Moleskine gouache sketch

I lost my moleskine sketchbook some time ago. After weeks of searching and hoping to find it, I decided to forget about it and buy myself a new one.... These are my first gouache sketches in it...

Plein air pleasure

Gouache is a great medium for quick outdoor sketches. It takes less time to pack your stuff and start painting than oils, but gouache gives you the same possibility to start with transparent layers, and then move to opaque painting.

Arne let me know he went outside yesterday to paint ( see his and my outdoor sketches here ). I felt I could not stay behind, so even though the weather was rainy, I took my sketchbook and went outside for some serious sketching...
I had to be quick this time, because it started to rain soon after I started painting. Because of that I had to make desicions really fast, and focus mainly on the basics of the composition. I would have liked to stay and add a little more detail here and there, but because of the rain I had to quit.

This is Arne and I painting last sunday in 'de Hoeksche Waard' .