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THE ART OF PLAY & THE FREEDOM TO CREATE WITH LIKE-MINDED PEOPLE
THE ART OF PLAY & THE FREEDOM TO CREATE WITH LIKE-MINDED PEOPLE
THE ART OF PLAY & THE FREEDOM TO CREATE WITH LIKE-MINDED PEOPLE
THE CREATIVE POWER OF CHANGE
I picked up my brush, pencil and pen again, after not having created for a very long time. Drawing, painting and writing gave me amazing ways to release my emotions and to go through the changes. My creativity started to explode.
I first started experimenting with pencil-drawings of famous black & white portret photographs (of Anton Corbijn, mostly), which helped me to develop my own detailed drawing-style.
SOME OF MY PENCIL PORTRAITS
LITHO’S OF SALVADOR DALI AND CLINT EASTWOOD
I have made 10 limited offset litho’s of my drawing of Dali’s Mustache and 10 of Clint Eastwood’s Wrath on A3 format. There are still a few remaining.
To see my Clint Eastwood drawing, paintings & spraypaintings, click here.
To see my Salvador Dali drawing, paintings & spraypaintings, click here.
MY BLACK AND WHITE POSCA DRAWINGS
Years ago I have been experimenting with portraits painted with black Posca markers and sometimes black acrylic paint. I still love them.
MY ART FOR SALE
If you’re interested in my work, or interested to work together, please contact me. See the page ‘About Me’
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MY SPRAYPAINTINGS
MY WORK AS A SPRAYPAINTER
I love streetart, stencil-art, tags and graffiti art. I myself started out using spraypaint on paper and canvas, still being a bit shy for trying it out in the streets. I used to visit an amazing spraypaint shop in Amsterdam, Henxs, just to look at their amazing collection of spraypaint cans and posca markers, books on streetart and their skateboard clothes. Always made me happy. My favourite shops have always been the ones that combine (street)art, books, music (preferably with someone behind a turntable) , graphic novels, vinyl art and skateboard fashion and accessories. That’s where the edge of the groove is. Anywhere in the world.
One day I just asked the guy behind the counter of Henxs to set me up with a starter-kit for spraypainting. He gave me some tips on how to spraypaint at home (water basis), some sjablones to try out, and six colours of spraypaint. And I was lost. For half a year I spraypainted and spraypainted. Trying out different materials, from different sorts and colours of paper, like crazy rolls of wallpaper, Japanese paper, sandpaper, sun bleach-paper, carbon paper, and fabrics, boxes, vinyl art poppets, and of course canvas and canvas board.
I design my stencils and sjablones with acrylpaint and Posca marker. First I try out different designs on paper, then I create a stencil from plastic and start experimenting with the design for a while with spraypaint. I now often use those designs again as a base for my canvas acrylpaint portraits.
Exhibition of my drawing of Clint Eastwood
This is a pencil-drawing I made in May 2016 of Clint Eastwood, based on a black and white photograph I found on Pinterest (see here). From November 2019 ten litho’s are exhibited at Galerie Peter Leen in Breukelen, Holland: http://www.galeriepeterleen.nl
My drawing of David Bowie
I finished this pencildrawing of David Bowie in November 2019. It took me about two months to draw it. Crazy enough, during the the months that I was drawing, I suddenly saw the same photograph everywhere on billboards in Amsterdam. The drawing is based on a photograph of © Gavin Evans, see for photograph here.
Pencildrawing – November-2019
The process of drawing David Bowie:
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