Owl

Since I've made the last dove with a mixed media of watercolour and coloured pencils I've been asked to draw an owl with a similar process.  Herewith the results.  Hope she likes it. :)
May you have a wonderful day,
E

my eerste linosnee

Gisteraand het ek my eerste smakie van linosnee-printing ervaar.  Die resultaat was verrassend en baie pret.
Ek was nog altyd aangetrokke tot die verskeie drukmedia & veral die handpress movement juis omrede dit onpretensieus (en mag ek dit sê, eerlik) voorkom. En altemit is dit of ek meer bewus is van die proses van skep wanneer ek prints maak. O, en natuurlik is die hele verrassingselement van die eindresultaat 'n groot lekkerte.
Sover was alle drukprosesse waarmee ek te doene gehad het vir my baie fassinerend en om die geleentheid te kry om vir die eerste keer 'n linosnee te maak was geensins 'n teleurstelling nie.  Ek het al vantevore 'n houtsnee gemaak.  (Ek vermoed dit is waar meeste meesterdrukkers begin met hul reis.)  En miskien weens tyd of omrede die reliefproses soorteglyk is van houtblok tot lino het hul gereken dis nie nodig om ons ook daaraan bloot te stel nie.  Dit is soortgelyk ja, in terme van dat mens wegsny wat nie gedruk moet word nie, maar 'n lino het nie die grein wat hout besit nie & juis daarom kan mens half fyner te werk gaan.  Dit is ook veel sagter om uit te kerf, wat jou merkmaakproses beïnvloed en toelaat vir delikater merkies.
Die gedagte dat ek moontlik kan print sonder die benodigheid van 'n handpress - sommer by my huisateljee - was ook 'n groot trekpleister.  Ek het ook vir die eerste keer met ink gewerk met 'n waterbasis.  Dit vergemaklik die skoonmaak agterna.  Mens mis ietwat die glinster wat die oliebasis-ink verleen, maar dis heel maklik om mee te werk.  Ek is eintlik nuuskierig om te sien hoe verskeie kleure wat oormekaar gedruk word sal reageer met mekaar.  Is die ink deursigtig?  Mens sal moet print en uitvind!

Vriendelike groete,
E

from Drawing to Poster

It was me and my boyfriend's one year celebration together recently.  To commemorate our anniversary I created this pinup version poster of me for him!

do your thing

Playing with some copic markers today :)

Infinity Pattern

 

I recently read up on Lauweriks & Peter Behrens and their design principle of intertwining the circle & square to create infinite possibilties of designs.  I wanted to apply that in my own kind of pattern-making process & came up with this as I was doodling inbetween other work.  It turned out into something much more organic than I initially thought the pattern will be.  But since I wanted to let if flow, the surprise had a good effect on my mood.
I want to try out some other variations of pattern & see where it goes.

tortoise

my heart

A quick watercolour sketch drawn in celebration - today is my Valentine's day!

Duifie

 My sister requested a drawing of a dove the other day & it proved to be the ideal platform to try out a mixed media drawing.  I first painted a blue wash, followed by spontaneous areas of colour that became defined once I switched over to coloured pencil to add some depth.
I enjoyed it so much.  It turned out to be an interpretation of a dove more than a species drawing - hope she will like it.

êrens het ek my woord verloor

êrens het ek my woord verloor

tussen dit wat was en wat bly oor

met dit wat is en wat het verloor

tussen traliehek en pad se spoor

hoop jy jou voete bly net voor

a gift to Michael

It was my boyfriend's birthday recently.  I made this art book as a gift to him. I am sharing some of the pages here.  The project took longer than anticipated, but it was very gratifying to work 'unplanned' and in a multitude of media without trying to create a coherent whole.  Each double spread is treated as a composition of its own.
He was a wonderful recipient of this gift.  He's simply wonderful.