IF: ahead

This is actually an ATC. I made it when I was at my grandmother's, and I was at my grandmother's because my grandfather passed away on April 14th. So this is dedicated to him. The journey he made through life was difficult the last few years and I hope that the journey ahead will give him joy and peace, because he needed both.

Rest in happy peace, grandfather.

Watercolor, ink.

IF: linked

Made another image for Illustration Friday. The theme is linked.

My intention for this image was to raise questions:

• Are they linked literally or metaphorically?
• If this is a matter of cop vs. robber, who is who?
• Is this a happy linking or a sad one?
• Etc.

I hope you like it!

Watercolor, ink, gel pen

IF: dip

Made these ATCs for the Exquisite Body Swap at ATCsforall.com, but it fits the IF theme of this week as well, so why not combine!

Question is, did she take a dip in the ocean, the swimming pool or the bathtub? And why is she so shocked?

The idea of the swap was to create a head, body&arms, and legs&feet and when the hosts has all of them, she'll swap them around to create even better bodies! How cool is that! I had so much fun making this poor girl, it should be illegal, lol.

For the record, these are three separate ATCs, combined they make up the girl.

Watercolor, ink, gel pens.








For good measure, the entire thing:

IF: rescue

Went along with Illustration Friday again for a change. This week's theme is rescue.

Our cat always chases our rabbit and I always laugh my @$$ off when she (the rabbit) outsmarts him (the cat). Girl powerrrrrr!

Mixed media: watercolor, ink, oil pastels

IF: flawed

Here's my entry for IF's topic 'Flawed' for this week.

The idea came to me a while ago, actually. I was in the train, on my way to the university, and, not surprisingly in the Netherlands, it rained. The drops on the riding train made trails on the window and when the train slowed down and stopped, the trails dropped down, instead of going horizontally as they were doing while going at high speed. It was fascinating to look at and the pattern that occured was awesome. When confronted with the topic 'flawed' I wondered what to do and suddenly I remembered that rainy day in the train and this is the result.

Enjoy!

IF expired ones

Well, I was going to try and enter these for IF, but I didn't make the deadlines, so here they are:

This topic's was 'Pale' and I think the picture speaks for itself..



Here the topic was 'Contained' and the linguist in me wondered why that was written in the past tense. So an image sprang from that, a collage playing with the words contain, contains, container and, of cours, contained. Why the can is broken instead of spraying? I'm not sure, but it certainly is easier composition-wise... Lol.

IF: climbing

My first entry for Illustration Friday (IF). This weeks topic was 'climbing,' so here we go.

My brother is an expert in rock climbing and I'm sure he can find many, many things wrong with this picture (the position of the rope, the harness, the (lack of) knots, the position of the climber, the hook... and so on, lol), but I still dedicate this picture to him.

Here you are, Jan, this is (for) you :-P