Papermaking in Plantin-Moretus museum Antwerp

Photos by Gert Van Gelder / Plantin-Moretus Antwerp

Paperdolls to color

Vandaag opende de nieuwe tentoonstelling in het Plantin Moretus museum in Antwerpen " Reizen in het onbekende".

Mijn aankleedpoppen zijn volledig klaar, de platen zijn te krijgen in het museum maar speciaal voor wie dat wil kan je ze hier in 1 klink downloaden, printen en starten met kleuren en spelen.

Maak er iets moois van en vergeet niet van me een foto door te sturen naar kathydewit@gmail.com
Dalí is alvast begonnen aan zijn eigen pop! :)

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The new exhibition about the big Belgian cartographer Mercator opened today in the museum Plantin-Moretus in Antwerp. These are the paperdolls totally finished.

Especially for all of you!

Download the images above, print them out and start playing with your colors!

Don't forget to send me a picture of your finished doll with her favourite clothes to kathydewit@gmail.com

LOOK! Even Dalí is making his own doll! :)

Dolls from paper and love

Dear friends,

I'm still alive, still.

These months I'm feeling like doing the best to not drown in the bath of work and deadlines. I'm doing the best I can, I'm enjoying the work I do but my mental mood and spirit is suffering a bit.

The best thing is that I really love my different jobs, just combining all of them can take sometimes too much energy. Look, I'm drawing paperdolls inspired on images made in the 17th century. Love to do that and sure  if you know that soon kids will can take their piece of paperdoll-paper in the museum and go colouring and cutting the dolls designed by me. Soon more, and also about that globe of Mercator.

Promise you to don't stay away too long from my beloved blog. Have to tell so much more!

Don't forget this place, I'm still here on the globe :)

You too I hope!

♥

Kathy

The giant letterbook : FINISHED!

 Remember some months ago? When I started cutting linoleum for this project. 

Almost 30 lino-plates later the book is ready!!! I will didn't count my tears while binding this book.

Recently I'm following a course about bookbinding and all the related things, but binding a book of this size (A3) isn't even a command in the first year of the course. So I illustrated the text of Barbara Vanden Eynde and finished the prints as one enormous book. The book will be used in a guided tour for toddlers and it has even the size of a toddler. Hope they will love it!!!
Funny detail : 3 more books like this to finish :) Wish me luck!

A-B-P...

Time for Q and his friends. This is how far I am for now. Still to com is L and F.

In black and white for now to have a bright look on the form itself.

Any comments, ideas are welcome of course!

ABC - book in progress

I'm cutting and cutting, my back is hurting a lot...but I'm close to the finish and my own creations keep me going on. This viking turned out even more sympathic then I wanted, soon I fall in love with him :) Love the proces...colouring is so much fun!

The alphabet is growing... :)

C

AB and C....so the next one, about eating the most delicious chocolate spread like Nutella...we called it 'choco', mostly all the kids love it and it starts with a C but sounds like a ssssssschhhh :)
I'm cutting away more and more letters, linoleum is flying around, drawings are flewing out of my hand...I have so much fun doing this! Soon more!

B

The second one. Don't search for a link between the animal and the letter. The illustrations are going together with a text about letters and the magic of it. In this one it goes about the b that can form glasses together with his broter d...and so on ;) I know the owl doesn't need glasses but he was the right animal for this one I guess.

Workshop Day 3 / Monsters & T-shirts

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De laatste dag van de 'zomer'-workshops in het museum zijn afgesloten met spectaculaire t-shirts and gekke monsters in inkt.
The last day of the 'summer'-workshops with a marvellous ending story of printed shirts ;) and crazy scary monsters in ink.

Workshop Day 1 / Drypoint & Papermaking

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