Plaster art
The ‘art related’ stuff in this post is somewhat unusual.
The making of Fargesia Victualia
The making of Fargesia Victualia
Clay girl
Sometimes I feel the need to do something different than being in front of my easel.
Inspired on my acrylic painting/illustration ‘Fourteen’ I created this figure.
Sound effects
That means I had to cope with my 2 biggest phobia at the same time!!!
Easel
One of the best things I recently bought is this new easel. Well…. it’s not really an easel and it’s not new either.
In the last couple of weeks my old easel slowly but surely started falling apart.
Demotivating
WHY did we drive to Auckland then??? But the customs officer was gone and has assigned us with a shy young assistant. Arguing with the wrong person doesn’t make sense, isn’t it?
Customs
Did you know you physically can feel despondency?! Then your neck and arms slowly got filled with heavy lead, your voice gets weak and your eyes are stinging. And suddenly you want to sleep. For a long time. For a few years.
What about inspiration?
13 March 2008 People often ask me about my inspiration. To be quite honest, the conceptual stage of my art is often more elimination than inspiration. The initial idea usually appears when my mind is sort of idling, like when I’m travelling or taking a shower. Like many of us. From there it’s is primarily […]
Money in the wrong place
Gradually there is occurring some movement in the case ‘gallery O’. Occasionally they replied a whole sentence (after having sent my questions at least 2 times). The day after tomorrow the 2 boxes finally will be picked up by the courier to get back to New Zealand
Ranting
Why are these things never handled like adults, such as a normal transaction in ordinary business life? Why are artists treated like whining kids. Or like an annoying mosquito? We are talking about $ 42,000 worth of trade.
The making of Simmondsia vitra
The making of simmondsia vitra
Exhibition Perth
Last Sunday, my friend Wilma who lives in Perth, went to ‘Gallery O’ to check if the gallery actually exists. To check if my paintings really were hung. To check if they didn’t hang them upside down. And to check if the bronze sculpture really is shown too.
Agaricia in bronze
This bronze/glass/wood sculpture is based on the painting Agaricia Bullio, which was inspired by the surface texture of one of the Caribbean Lettuce Corals, Agaricia. These corals form thin plates as delicate as bone china and are extremely vulnerable to environmental changes. The trunk started life in white clay. Just like coral it has both […]
The making of Malus arvum
Metaphor
13 September 2007 When I was 12 I bought my first LP, paid from 3 weeks saved allowance. I still can dream every detail of the black cover with the colored insignia of Queen. With a determined patience I manually had copied and reduced the size of the insignia and pasted on the front of […]
Exquisite corpse: One dollar
This is the second part of my excorps project with Peter van Oostzanen. In the creation of this drawing we followed the same procedure as the first one, only this time the roles have been reversed. I started with the left halve, masked off most of it and next Peter finished the other halve.
The making of Protea madida
Exquisite corpse: Morning before the bbq
An excorps is 1 drawing created by 2 artists, in this case Peter van Oostzanen and me. Peter first drew half a paper (on the right side) and covered most of it before sending it to me. Working from the small visible part of his drawing, it was up to me to fill the other […]
Art cars
Even on a busy day the free spaces beside my car stayed empty the longest.
Wooden shoes
Here are 11 of my ‘designer’ wooden shoes, which are in collections & museums worldwide.
My relationship with a painting
When painting the ice landscape a friend asked me why I was more enthusiastic in making one painting than the other. In other words; why one painting comes to me easier than some other one?Some painters theatrically cry out that their paintings are their children and it’s a burden to sell them. For me, after […]