I guess we can blame it on the nice weather, but somehow now every weekend some nice artsy events are going on. In half an hour I’ll leave to Ruigoord – a squatted artists village near Amsterdam … they even got a squatted church. There is the All is One festival today (12th of June) and tomorrow. Not sure what to expect – but 100 artists will be there, so lots to see. I’ll probably do portraits in a tent called “The happy world”.
Until 3 o’clock this morning I was hanging up pictures in a squat in Amsterdam-Noord. There is the “Art for Art’s Sake” event. It started also today, but is continuing next weekend (19th and 20th of June). I will be there at least all next weekend – I think about using oil paint to paint some objects (they have loads of nice rusty machinery there). Or a model if I can find a victim .
Nadia is thinking about using their cinema for collaboration paintings via laptop. I hope that will work out. Entry is free – so come by if you can!
"Art for Art's Sake" - Distelweg 113: Forgot to take proper pictures - here's the room, and where I was beginning building up.
And last week was another sketchmeet – a group of young concept artists running around in Haarlem and drawing. Was a lot of fun. Here are some results of the collaborations we did. Only the sketches I’ve kept – there was loads more of course.
This is a collaboration where one person starts a little drawing, and then the image goes to the next guy. And everyone makes a variation or evolution of it.
This is a drawing I did: supposed to be a huge creature attacked by a tiny cute one. I want to make this into a painting when I find the time.
Since my "aggressive cute creature" failed. I asked around for people to make their versions.
Interesting ideas, I'll combine them for a final one I think.
And as bonus - a little drawing I saw on the Comic-Event that was that day in Haarlem. Some child was drawing the most awesome crocodile ever. Too bad I forgot to take a photo.
On this Queensday I was painting portraits in Amsterdam’s Vondelpark again. This time with even more artists – Henrik joined, Svetlana reserved the spot and took pictures and Ingeborg and Renske were drawing also. Which is nice – it attracts people to watch and makes them want a portrait too.
Even though we were all really exhausted, the whole thing was great fun. I’m looking forward for the next time.
Here we’re setting up the spot.
Waiting time.
Waiting more…
We could only start late, since the rain and cold weather kept people away…
…but finally we got some models.
Henrik proved popular with the female crowd. I don’t approve!
Sometimes one has to take desperate measures to get those little brats to pose. The babies of today show no discipline!
And the following are some of the portraits, unfortunately I did not take photos of every one I made.
She was just awesome – nice model and she lent me her child when the authorities came (before 12 one has to have a child when entering). Thanks a lot
Last week me and somefriends were drawing on beer mats again - I think over the years we filled quite some of them Great fun. Usually I leave them in the bars, but this one is special. Spot how many creatures you can find on this one. Careful though: if you look to long at it, I'm sure you can go insane.
I made a little JavaScript - so if you have a browser with HTML5 support, then you can rotate this with your mouse.
And so that it's not just one image - here is one other coaster I have lying around at home.
Another one, where someone drew me, but I have no clue anymore who did it. If anyone recognizes it, lemme know
Digging out a scan of a drawing from a sketchgroup we had in Utrecht some months, since Nadia posted a painting on her blog. This is a collab of Nadia, Wanja and if I remember correctly also Stephan aka Duq.
We certainly wanna do more meetings – if you’re around the area here, and are interested – check this thread on Conceptart.org, where the meetings are usually announced.
Roughly 15 more pages of my sketchbook from 2008. Funny thing: I always thought its the one before my current one. But just when writing this – I noticed it can’t be. I fill at least 2 per year. Well, turns out I have another full sketchbook lying around. Scanning all this will take me aaaaages. Argh. Well gotta do what I gotta do … Anyways – enjoy, the ending of 2008 in pictures!
The next 4 images are from an event called “Tokyo Decadance”.
One of the magical pages – have them sometimes. I wrote “one pizza please”… when sitting in a bar (I was finishing the pic of a pizza bakery). And 2 minutes later the band “New Model Army” came in with a pizza and put it on my table. The next pictures are some of the band and their friends… although one guy didn’t like the nose I gave him .
First something about the last posting – I’ve updated the portrait of the blonde girl. Damn, it looked bad (heh, I deleted all traces). I never see how bad a picture is until a week is over or so. Was a good learning experience to analyze and fix it though.
Update of last postings painting
And yeah got no internet – so fewer updates for now. Bad timing, as I just started taking part in the Unearthly Challenge with twofriends.
The topic is “End-Game”. We want to do a 3D version of a medieval town that gets devoured by some digdug style machines that dig the ground away.
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