Wild of letters

Did I told you that handlettering and calligraphy are fascinating me again after decades!

Soon I'm giving a first little workshop and this chalkboard I've made is just a note to ask something from my participatnts. Thought that would inspire them ;)

After joining an online workshop by Molly Jacques about modern calligraphy and one by Sean McCabe on digitizing handlettering I went totally wild and nobody will stop me!

I'm looking forward to one given by Jessica Hische about composing letterforms and if you feel something like...mmm, that's interesting, just join the courses in Skillshare!

If you would love to join, just ask me a link and you can join any course half price!

Soon, I'm travelling to Lugano! Also for the letters!

More about it later on.

 Photo: Javier Huerta

Papermaking in Plantin-Moretus museum Antwerp

Photos by Gert Van Gelder / Plantin-Moretus Antwerp

El gato Frank

 Last week I joined a workshop 'making your own puppet' in the workplace of Theater Froefroe in Antwerp. First I thought to make a girl like those ones I'm used to draw but suddenly she turned out into a cat and she became more HE :) With a block of foam, scissors, cutters and strong glue we started creating our 'thing'. Yesterday I took my creation to the kids of my saturday-class and they gave him the name Frank. Why Frank is a very good question! Zappa? Stella? Ghery? Anyway...don't try to guess. There are kids for! :) I will try from now to use our 'Frank' to tell them about painters, artists and creators from all over. :) When Frank is talking they are so quiet ;)))

Klapdorp - workshop

Dit was de tweede Klapdorp-workshop georganiseerd op het jaarlijkse straatfeest hier in Sint-Pauwels. Ook met deze kinderen wou ik eens t-shirts drukken d.m.v. sjablonen...en dat lukte aardig. Ik had heel jonge deelnemertjes en die vonden het eigenlijke drukgedeelte met inkt het allerleukste. Ik kreeg zelfs een boel ouders in beweging!
Dat smaakt alleen naar meer en nog en beter ;)
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This was the second workshop I organised on our yearly 'streetparty' in the village where I live. I wanted to give it a try to print shirts like I do sometimes in the museum and the results are stunning! There were a bunch of very young children (2-3 years old) and they loved the 'ink-part' of the workshop more then anything else. Also I could move a dozen of parents working with their kids.
It tastes so good, I want more of this and even better :)

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 2 / A beasty linocut

In de voormiddag schreven de kinderen een 'beestig verhaal' en na de middag gingen ze aan de slag met linoleum om een opvallende cover voor hun mini-boekje te ontwerpen.
Before noon the kids were writing a 'beasty' story and in the afternoon they designed their own cover for the little book by linocutting.

Workshop Day 1 / Drypoint & Papermaking

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