My first ever really satisfying Greaser. Gives memories about feeling tough, metal pocket combs, mopeds (Kreidler and Zündapp) and petticoats. And clasping your wallet under the leg of your swimming trousers. Together with your metal comb. Swimming trousers as small as possible and your wallet as big as possible. Hey big spender!
Both illustrations have been published and both are about self-building model scale farmmachines. On the second illustration the boy says: "Now, only the paintjob needs to be done".
I made this one for the earlier mentioned "Children's University". This one is for the chapter "Why is the sky blue?". This drawing is to show that a banana only reflects the yellow light particles and eats the others.
Under the illustration of yesterday, on the two pages are portraits of and interviews with certain Petes. Spicy Nuts Pete, Package Pete, Cap Pete, Nagging Pete and Canary Pete.
It's time for Sinterklaas again and his Black Petes. I made a an illustration on which they carry presents, 5th of december is presentnight. In Holland we have no Santa Claus tradition. We have Sinterklaas instead. Here is the whole twopage-wide illustration.
My dear colleague Eliane Duvekot reacted on my first IllustrationFriday-topic:Free > " Funny, the caterpillar in the basket looks like he is behind bars. Is that intentional?" Well, if it was intentional, it was unintentional intentional. By coincedence the above drawing was in my mind a couple of times in the last week. I consider it a message from my unconscience, to tell me something that is important to me. Must be something about the room I create for myself in every day life. Being busy since january with mourning about the loss and the suffering sickness, before that, of my wife, I sometimes live in a small room where I feel grieve, anger, dismay, resignation and so on. All these feelings have intensivied since I stopped, with a stopping scheme, with taking anti-depressiva. Making my breathing space very small. my feelings and the world are so impressive in this period that they compress me into a small personal room. You create your own prison to protect yourself. My mind, as I interpret it, is making it known to me in order to come out of it again, by showing me I imprison myself. Just lay down your bars and step from your small floor. Dog(energy), cat(intuition) and growing flower( meaning speaks for itself) are waiting there.
When you do not have wings, yet, there's an option to fly. Caterpillar carries caterpillar into the air.
Wild boar tells about his life on the page I made this illustration for.
Race between a meateater and a greeneater. Made it for the biology/science magazine accompaniing a schooltelevisionprogram on the same subject. Click HERE to open a screen with the game in large.
Illustration I made for a book that is called "The Children's University" and is based on monthly lectures in which scientist try to explain a topic to children. Subjects like why is the sky blue?, why is shit brown?, why is the sea salt?, how do plants grow?, where is the rainbow coming from?, what happens when I sleep?. 10 lectures. Somewhere about 60 -90 illustrations. Lectures were held at "NEMO" , a science center in the Amsterdam harbour region, which looks like a ship.
Three more examples of strength, made for "the Farm"(translation from Dutch magazine name). First one is about Tractorpulling contests, the other two are about ants and drinking milk.
Does it need strength to carry a butterfly? Strength shows when you need it. It's a fashionable thing for a man to be able to show his weakness. Nevertheless sometimes fashionable things are very true. But it's ofcourse not the only strength. Would there be many men, showing their weakness on purpose? Must be a bunch of machos! I feel very weak all of a sudden.
Illustration for a dutch recreational bikers magazine. Story of a man who started to have very much fun in biking in his youth and got involved in bike racing. He started to loose his joy in the competition. Refound his joy as a bike-courier in Amsterdam and enjoys his butt of now in England biking and not-so-serious-racing with funny hats and goggles wearing Englishmen.
Do I express, in this manner, my wish to be spanked and punished? No, thank you.
Veterinarian is this weeks subject for the children's page of The Farm(transl. from dutch).
There is more night during wintertime. Not only in the literal meaning, but also when you think about it in a expressive way to point out, how you're life is. At what stage. This drawing tells about this. When you are down and out, the seed for new things lies in trying to cope with and process your source of misery. Blues. If you can't cry for real, you can't laugh for real. If you are really able to feel the loss, you are better aware of new gain. I think. I guess
Two illustrations for a kids page about rabbits. Big one about peculiarities of rabbits > tapping with their hindlegs to warn about danger, the wide variety of taste sensations they have, finding their way in the dark, thanks to the sensibility of their whiskers, never stopping the movement of their noses, the eyes in the top of their head, which on top of that they can turn to all sides, to spot possible ennemies, and the abbility to turn their ears to all sides, as well, for the same purpose and to detect carrots, which try to escape.
