Plein Air Studies

Been doing some plein air studies with Artbars. Lots of fun!

USS Constellation, Baltimore, USA

National Archives, Washington DC

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Location:Philadelphia,United States

Horse Feet!

Won an award over at iATC for one of my feet cards and so I was inspired to do more ^_^
Ink, watercolor, gel pen






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Hawaii Men

More portrait practice!

Danny 'Danno' Williams, Steve McGarrett, Chin Ho Kelly
Hawaii Five-0
Soft pastels

Some more art

Did a few more things. School year's almost over and then I hope to have more time to do more art (while staying in the US over summer, among other things).

Egypt
Art bars, acrylics

Backyard Sketch
Watercolors, Moleskin

Steve Mcgarrett / Alex O'Loughlin, Hawaii 5-0
Art bars, acrylics

Steve Mcgarrett / Alex O'Loughlin - Hawaii 5-0
Soft pastels

storillustration

So I've been working on this e-zine for a while and had to figure out how to post a file onto the internet without having to build a website. So this is a test.

Here it is! The first issue of storillustration!

Doggie

Acrylics/light practice. I'm quite happy with it ^_^

Jack Carter

Fell in love with the TV series (A Town Called) Eureka. Awesomeness all around!


Copic markers, Prisma colored pencils

Tradigital

Playing around with traditional versus digital. Had lots of fun with these!

Done with acrylics.

Little one in the sky

The introductory illustration to my story. Please ignore the discoloration down the middle. That because I had to scan it in two pieces and merge it in Photoshop.

Hope you like it!

Mixed media

And the spread (text is in Dutch):

My Little Brother in the Sky continued

Hello!

Though I'm super busy at the moment, I haven't been completely inactive. Been working on my storybook idea. Redid the earlier illustration and played around with it in Indesign. I like how it came out.

I know the clouds on the left page look off. They've been cut out and copy/pasted from the right page. I still need to make individual clouds for the left page.

Little Brother in the Sky Cover

The cover. Sort of. Not entirely suited to be the cover, since I didn't take the backside and lettering into account, but whatever.

Mixed media: acrylics, collage, charcoal, soft pastels

Little Brother in the Sky

Yay! Finished the final illustration! It's from the first chapter of a story I'm working on.

Mixed media: collage, acrylics, soft pastels, charcoal

Op de Hemelweg / On Heaven's Road

A second illustration for my story - de Hemelweg or Heaven's Road. This one, and Sarah, both are elaborate sketches for a bigger illustration for chapter one of my story. One more of these sketches and then I'll work on the bigger one.

Mixed media: collage, acrylics, charcoal, soft pastel

Edit: Finished the last one as well! Meet Uk (Little One). He keeps teasing his sister, even from Heaven. Not with crayons and paint on new dresses, but through the weather.

So now I'm ready (I hope) to work on the big illustration for this story. Yay!

Again, mixed media: acrylics, collage, soft pastel, charcoal

Experiment

Wow! I think I'm ill... I started experimenting with collage! Oh My Gosh!

Turned out pretty cool too. Did this after leafing through Layered Impressions: A Poetic Approach to Mixed-Media Painting by Katie Kendrick. Gosh, I love my library full of inspiration...

Also, meet Sarah, a character from a story I'm currently working on.

Mixed media: collage, acrylics, pencil, tiny bit of ink

Solution to the energy issue

As an assignment for the illustration course I'm taking, we had to combine a small problem (at home or work) with a huge problem (global). So I took my aversion to grading tests and combined it with the energy issue.

Ink, colored pen

Sjokoladesoep met Speculaas

The title is Dutch, but so be it (it has a nice ring to it, besides, English speakers don't know 'speculaas' haha).

Anyway, I've been working on this one on and off for the last few weeks (months? can't be sure) and I'm quite happy with the result. It's a spread, so the back, spine and front of a book cover.

Ink, watercolor (sticks), gel pen

Trees and Nudes

Some trees for a tree swap and figure drawing for a figure art swap.

All kinds of media: markers, watercolor sticks and pencils, ink, acrylics, gel pen




Acrylic backgrounds (blue, silver, gold, bronze), soft pastels and white acrylics for figures

Tea, my Dear?

Did some tea themed ATCs. I love tea!

Ink, watercolor, gel pens, glitter glue (on the middle one).

Canvas

Working on canvas! I finally had the guts to take that step. Don't get me wrong, these are small canvases, but still! It's a start.
All paintings are available through my Etsy store.

Acrylics on four times 10 x 10 cm (4 x 4 in) canvases.


Acrylics on 13 x 18 cm (5 x 7 in) canvas.


Acrylics on 13 x 18 cm (5 x 7 in) canvas (including some silver acrylic paint).

Elves

Made some Elves! Meet Mother Elf (the elderly lady with silver bowl on her head), Moon Priestess, Wizard Elf and Rascal.

Ink, watercolor, gel pen