Showing posts with label illustration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label illustration. Show all posts

February 4, 2014

Graphic Design Festival Breda


We are ready for the flight!
This design will be submitted for the Graphic Design Festival in Breda.
We are heading to the deadline on the 7th of february and our 'Eendenkind'
wants to participate in this election.
More practical info about this festival you can find here :
GRAPHIC DESING FESTIVAL BREDA 2014
Cross your fingers for us and our Duckchild ;)

January 30, 2014

Eendenkind / Posterdesign for a poem by Lies Van Gasse

Proud to present you my posterdesign I made inspired on a poem written by my friend, collegue, writer and poet Lies Van Gasse. It all started on the first minutes of 2014. While me and my family were watching the fireworks in the little village of my parents, close to many creeks and rivers and some tiny natural reserves,( Belgian, so very very tiny!) we heard something crashing onto the concrete. An adult duck, a boy, was laying on his back and moved one leg, watched hopeless into my eyes and let life flowing away of his full and more then attractive body...he died in front of us. Some blood on his beak told us he must had crashed somewhere haunted by the horrible sound of the fireworks.

This story inspired Lies, and some weeks later her poem was born.
I had still the image living in my memories and almost immediately I saw an image for the poem.
I worked only with ink and pencil and it turned out that I could combine finally my calligraphy and my illustration. I can tell you, that feels so good!
So this is the result!
It's called :
 what means in dutch, Ducks Child,...
I'm so sorry, I will not dare to translate the poem into english but I can tell you that it is very touching, about a city of lace, about loosing, pain, but also some hope and further horizons.


Op nieuwjaarsnacht valt uit de lucht

een eendenkind.


Zout schuimt om haar lippen.
Huiswaarts is een woud,
de armen van een kanten stad.

Mistbanken liggen op land
als een drijvend eiland.

Onderin de buik
een vlechtwerk van twijgen,
een stoet van dode dichters,
steen waarop men rollen zou.

Aardplaten verschuiven.
Regels beheersen ons leven.

Ik ga de hoepel af.
We steken in betonnen dozen
en verlangen naar de uitgang.

Volgzaam kijk ik, als een hond,
naar de tamme val, 

haar bek als een scheermes,
het zachte vlees van de nacht.

Sindsdien bijt ik op glas.
Er valt een muur van licht,
wij moeten in die volheid slapen.


Here some pictures of work in progress.

January 27, 2014

Uppercase 20...and I'm in it!

So proud and excited to show you the new issue of Uppercase.
 I danced to my frontdoor when the postmen threw my favourite magazine in!
 Since a year this is kind of my quarterly bible!
My sewing-drawings had been selected for this issue and that feels so good!
Thank you so Janine and the whole Uppercase staff for this delicious magazine, again!
Really, for anyone who is creative and curious, this is a must have.
You can sign up with this link : http://mbsy.co/Fndh

Here some more fabulous spreads of issue 20.

December 28, 2013

New prints


 I listed some new prints to finish this year.
Very sensibles. Let them be loved.
HERE you can purchase them in my Eldibujodelgato - shop on ETSY
Have a splendid finishing of 2013!

May 1, 2013

Mini-expo @ Huiszwaluw, Gent

Proud to present you older and new work on the wall of a very cosy shop in Gent, Belgium.
All ways are leading to Gent these days! :)
Discover my illustrations and designs in Huiszwaluw ( Dutch translation of Martin)
My brooches, originals, prints, tote bags, garlands, notebooks, postcards and buttons.
They are waiting to welcome you!
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Heel fier presenteer ik ouder en nieuw werk in het oergezellige Huiszwaluw in Gent.
Alle wegen leiden daarheen dezer dagen! :)
Ontdek er mijn illustraties, broches, originelen, prints, tote bags, notitieboekjes en zoveel meer.
Ze verwelkomen je daar allemaal!

 HUISZWALUW
Hoogpoort 3b

9000 Gent
OPEN : Mon/ Fri 10u30 - 18u








April 12, 2013

Prue - Based on Wildwood by C.Meloy

 Some days ago I jumped into 'The Impassible Wilderness'! Find it back in Wildwood of Colin Meloy and with super thrilling drawings of Carson Ellis! I'm a huge fan of her work and that's the reason why I bought Wildwood and look now...the story is taking me every evening to the woods...with my coffee;)! Very short : Prue's little brother is kidnapped by a bunch of crows and taken to the woods on the other side of the river...nobody ever went there! :) And then it begins! 
Watch the trailer of the book on this LINK!
www.wildwoodchronicles.com

March 3, 2013

A little show with new things

Once again I participated in a little show, close to the village where we live...
I brought my new things, the notebooks and rand new gato-brooches with me, prints, buttons, magnets and postcards. Enough to show some beauty. Of course La famille Victor went with me to the little fair
and they enchanted every visitor with their stunning looks.
It was a very nice sunday and I guess I have to go on with my drawings after all those nice comments of the visitors today...they want MORE :)
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Dank je Martine en Lennie voor de organisatie en het enthousiasme op Mix&Match!

February 23, 2013

February 18, 2013

Making a map


 It's all about my fascination for maps and drawing maps.
Read more HERE
Very excited to be one of the participants in this course of Skillshare.