May 1, 2009

Making cards


Yesterday a birth, tomorrow a wedding...time to design my own cards.
I really enjoy to make some layout and see them as prints. Lots of my drawings I never printed before. Choosing a right paper, thick enough to stand on his own...nice to do and it gives me a lot of ideas...

April 30, 2009

FINN

My best friend gave birth today to her first child. It's a babyboy and he is named Finn. She told me on the telephone that he looks like a strong heavy boy, ...so are 'the Finns'....FINN was my finishing project on the academy of arts in Ghent...about an Irish Giant who beated a Scottish Giant on the Giants' Causeway in Northern Ireland...a wonderfull story, still unpublished but since today alive again!
So happy for them!

April 24, 2009

Fondue of chocolat in that same paradise


I invited mostly all of my art-students to the central park of the city to enjoy their 'Healthy Day'.
Of course we thought to eat fruit but because we are Belgians, the chocolate is never far away.
So for those who doesn't know 'fondue of chocolat' : You heat some liquid chocolate, choose some piece of fruit drop it into a dark and hot swimming pool!...mmmm...they all enjoyed it!

April 17, 2009

Impossibility

It's very simple...a head full of hair, long hair and some sciccors...and cut! My hair felt down on the floor, the girl had to laugh, it seemed to her like one kilogram...I couldn't watch it, that hair was still smelling to that island I recently discovered...it is gone, the island and my hair.
But happy with the result, new power for a new summertime! It seemed to me just impossible... to cut, not that summertime :)

April 8, 2009

CLOSED / CERRADO

All things are packed, I'm dreaming of an unknown country...time to explore now Sardinia!
I come back with my luggage full of new drawings in one week!
BESOS!

April 5, 2009

Talisman TUMI


Since more then 3 years she is every day with me. TUMI we call her. One day she flewed in a package over the ocean straight into my arms...then a nice story began between a boy from Peru and a girl from Belgium...and Tumi? She's saving the love between them ...

Hace más de 3 años ella está cada día conmigo. TUMI se llama. Un día ha volado sobre el gran oceano hasta mis brazos...este día empezó el cuento sobre un chico de Peru y una chica de Bélgica...y Tumi? Ella guarda el amor entre los dos...

April 2, 2009

France and more dreams


Watercolour that takes me back to 'vacation'-time... Some days to go and the long-expected eastervacation is coming at last...Time is hunting me...

March 31, 2009

Improvisation bird

For my incredible motivated and funny students I have this year! They all have to grew still a lot...:) but they can only climb higher and higher in what they love to do! Will miss you all soon!
Jaaaa, ik zal jullie allemaal missen binnenkort!

March 29, 2009

Poise

While struggling with the word for Illustration Friday of this week : Poise, I cleaned up my 'arty' room full of paper, drawings, books and more treasures. This is one of them...happy to find him again after almost two years. I made this drawing in the Colca Canyon in Peru in october 2007 while watching these incredible animals, the condors, flying on the highest winds of the Andes.
And while scanning this drawing I imagined that this is it! This is just POISE I guess...
being in equilibrium or balanced motionless, it was just a poisy moment that morning!

March 28, 2009

Will this planet survive the humans?


Many cities in the world sweeped off their lights, many peoples embraced the earth for a while and lived an hour without artificial light. But my own village didn't do anything and it makes me feel very ashamed...

Muchas ciudades en el mundo han apagado la luz, mucha gente han abrazado un rato esta tierra y han vivido una hora sin luz. Pero el pueblo mio no hecho nada y eso me hace sentir muy avergonzada... Esta planeta va a sobrevivir el humano?

March 26, 2009

Belgian spring / Primavera de Belgica


Spring...what does that mean in fact if you live in one of the smallest countries in the world with the most horrible climat in the world.

March 25, 2009

The days

For everyone who is following this growing piece of love (for the art of drawing... )
The hardest part of the week is gone and you surely noticed that in my drawings. Into the absence of some days. In these cases I come home very late, very tired and empty that I cannot put my hand on a piece of paper to draw 'my piece of a day'. Teaching art all day long in all kind of materials, from pencils to computers, from etching plates to canvas, to all different ages is also a very physical and mental occupation. I really like my work but exploring my own mind is one of my passions also. So to all of you who are sooo enthousiastic about my art, thank you thousand times and more, that makes this world so small and my heart so warm!
Good to know that there are so many more artfull minds!
See you here soon again or wherever on this planet!
You know what?...Me, a cappucino and a strong wind outside......time to DRAW!
x Kathy

March 24, 2009

Alo?...


Travelling homewards from Antwerp around 11 pm and hearing his voice...enough to make a quick doodle in the train to end my day
Regresando a la casa desde Amberres a las 11 en la noche y escuchar su voz...bastante inspiration para hacer un dibujito al final de mi dia

March 22, 2009

Liese

For every newborn babychild the city puts a tree, so my little niece Liese has now her own Oak
Para cada recien nacido la ciudad pone un árbol. Y ahora mi sobrinita Liese tiene su propio Roble.

March 13, 2009

Legendary !


Legendary...are for me these drawings. I made them in my last year of academy for my imaginary book Finn...about the legendary Finn Mac Cool of Ireland...these drawings are never officially published, so this is like a special happening, also for me...one drawing from Finn for Illustration Friday. As it is my wish, I hope that Finn can become one day a 'real' book!

March 12, 2009

Etching 3

A Photoshop-styled version, I like the mood in it, but it could be much better, this is a fast one!

March 11, 2009

Etching 2

This is the first original print on very simple paper with waterbased ink.

March 9, 2009

Etching 1

While I can give some workshops in a museum in Antwerp I can enjoy again the smell of printing.  Like how I was used to do in the Academy...I still love it.
Drawing in zinc, playing with ink ...all to make that one print!

March 7, 2009

Intricate / Ingewikkeld / Complicado

Finding the best destination...that can be very intricate by times if you want to meet the whole world!

March 5, 2009

Breezy



This drawing is like 10 years old. If I found this drawing between my old sketchbooks I had to remember that 'breezy' day on the coast of Bretagne (France). I can smell the air still if I see the colors, I can hear those birds yelling to the very little people on the tower... Time now to show the world this hidden drawing .