Mushroom-pattern

This huge paper will come into the new Alice in Wonderland-book I'm making in my course. This will be the paper inside. One in the beginning, one in the end. Time to stitch the restored book! :)

Pre-Inca Workshop

For a kind of a 'World day' on a school in the 'far-west' of Flanders I gave a workshop inspired on the pre-inca woven textiles. The kids (12-13 years) worked with stencils of adhesive plastic on cotton with acrylics and sponges. They learned about another culture that is still so unknown for them at that age...and I could share once more my infinitely passion for my second home.
An inspiring morning we had!!!

Dank aan Ank en Marianne voor de uitnodiging!!! Super!

Back to my press

A little test on my printing press before I go printing this afternoon with the kids on the academy. We made drawings with glue and sand and now they are ready to print. I'm so excited to see their results! Find out here the drawings they made already on my other BLOG.

update : Watch the results HERE!

Tutorial...for you!

For Dinara and all the curious ones who want to know how you can make a 'blind' print. TRY and LOVE it!

Workshop Relief printing with Stencils

Take a look at the proces at the ' woodblock print + printing with stencils - workshop', I followed today in my own academy, teached by my colleague Goedele Peeters.
After missing the Workshop given by Susan Goethel Campbell from Detroit, USA, luckily I could join this 'afterparty' with the same techniques.
This was just a briljant day...glad to experienced this new island in the printing world!
Cutting some copies, bringing ink onto woodblocks, pasting the stencils on the wood and start printing and playing with all kind of possibilities...and in the end adding some finishing touch with a brush and parts of stencils. aaaw...love it!!!
What do you think?

Schooltime!

Back to school after two months of vacation! It felt very good and the ink sounded smooth! There we go again!!! You can follow trough the images on El dibujo del niño, the blog I keep to post results of my classes.

The main course / El plato principal

On sundays I'm trying always to prepare something really delicious...in the week I just cook delicious, on sundays with a little extra :).
Today I had to work in the museum so I couldn't prepare another dream. Instead of that I made this quickly print by etching. I scanned the image and brought some photoshop-clouds and magic to it :)
The erupting Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull is holding down every airplane in almost whole Europe...the gigantic ash-clouds are causing enormous troubles in the life of so many peoples.
Vacation is ending today, thousands are waiting to return homewards stucked in their-once upon a time- lovely resort...
Nature without frontiers, back to basic, back to nature, back to the force of our mother planet?
She is still here and she looks more active then ever!
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Watch this video of the song you can hear on my player. While choosing the music I didn't have any idea of the theme of this video...I only like a lot the music from Icelandic musicians and I thought it would just be perfect...and look! it is!!!
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Workshop 3 & 4 : Monsterprinting and Pop-ups

See them turning the wheel, they were so happy in the end...with their huge print of a coloured monster made out of carton pieces and a lot of imagination!
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We made a little book each with his unique story! Saving the planet or the birthday from dad...imagination enough to make a little pop-up!
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Workshopping

Be my guest in the museum !

Received some pictures taken a while ago when I was guiding in a wonderful museum in Antwerp : Plantin Moretus. This was the house of the first printmakers in the world! Their books are spread over the wide world! I'm grateful to be part of the team there! What a spirit! Everyone who visit one day Antwerp has to see this with his/her own eyes!
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