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?

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Living napkins / Levende servetten

Hier is Mr. De Ijsvogel!
Helemaal klaar om de gasten te verwelkomen aan de feesttafel
Deze set van 4 servetten is te bestellen op onderstaande link
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Here he is...
Mr. Kingfisher : ready to welcome my guests on X-mass eve ;)
This set can be purchased on Envelop.eu in the Kató-shop

Con todo mi amor

Viajar mentalmente...es duro mi amor. Te quiero!
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How would it feel to be at the same moment in two different worlds?
I'm living these days with some kind of this emotion.
Days are very cold and dark here, overthere it is warm and bright!
Worlds can help each other, a world can help me surviving the other one, a world can hold me down of enjoying the other one...it's late, I'm tired, I'm missing him!

Classes for kids

This doodle is one of the examples how I'm preparing lessons for the kids at the academy. Love to doodling with the tablet...and that way my idea can grow on and on.

Gato-stamp

Stamps for mail-art

Since I'm back into Mail-art I want to sign every card or envelop with my own stamps...this one will return on all my things I'll send out into the world. Carving time! :)

One week

The same place somewhere in Antwerp with a difference of one week. And I rediscovered this song of David Byrne and Brian Eno. Fascinating video!

Water with love

Gracias amor! Te amo mucho!

30 + 1 = ....still young :)

Serious now. Me, myself and I, last friday...
Wanted to share this pic before I get 31...in some hours. Ooooh...time to take my last nap as 'young' girl:)

For Claudia, Milene and Laura

Finished these little gifts for my Peruvian nieces. Made from Papier-maché and beads I brought once with me out of Peru...made in China I guess :)

The last one

Resting seeds

As a kind of ritual I made these bags for all the gifts my garden left to me. That way they will stay dry and fresh to give them all a life next spring! But that is still long to go...I'm ready for the winter! And you?

Home is...

...where I lay down my muffin-cat.

After a whole day in a clinical landscape for a very short surgery I'm so glad to can go back home...receive the warmth and love of my two men and make some delicious muffins to tell them how I need them and how lucky we are to be healthy and happy ever after.

Ginkgo-scarf

My little Ginkgo-tree inspired me for this drawing. All the leaves coloured yellow...and soon they will fall down...and die. She enjoys the last days of october...and smells already HER month!

November! :)

Covers and reading

Just finished ' The terrible privacy of Maxwell Sim' (De afschuwelijke eenzaamheid van Maxwell Sim) by Jonathan Coe. In a late night show I saw him talking about this new book and it attracted me so much as it goes about THIS time, full of digital communications/friendship/relations. Love this style of writing! And between all the reading I made a little cover for a mini-agenda...just some doodle with Ikea-fabrics :)

Flowers for girls

Making some 'paper'-jewels for my far-away-nieces in Perú. This is the start and I have exactly two weeks to finish them. I will come back with pics from these ones ;)

Sending art to the world

My class and me

Medieval Dalí

A kind of medieval shopsign/namesign for our own future house somewhere on this planet.
So lets call this the beginning of the construction :))
Making signs like this is a new workshop in the Plantin-Moretus museum...inspired on the brand new exhibition "Jan Moretus I" with such inspiring documents of ages ago! If you are close, jump into it, if not, visit the site of the museum HERE.

Gato mail-art

After soooo many years I started playing with papers and cards and designed this mail-art. This one is going to Carolyn in South Africa. My first visit to that country ...transformed in a card :)

Making mail-art is the best solution to survive the dark evenings that are making our days so sad by times.
I'm excited to throw it into the world...here you go sweety...fly!

Fruits de mer

I love seafood...their textures, forms, colors and also the incredible fresh taste.
Such wonderful creatures but I love them ...to eat.
I'm so sorry dear crab, you were delicious and you will live happily ever afer...in my tummy :(

Sunny sunday in France

Some 300 km from where I live...so very close is this little town of Le Tréport. Great feeling to have the possibility of being one day in Normandy and eating the best fish in the world! We took my parents with us for a birthday gift-day on the French coast and all four of us were so happy on the end of the day...just ...a perfect day!

Mail-art with kids

I'm very busy to find for every kid in the two academies where I'm teaching a good address. I'm taking them into the world of Mail-art. They prepared a postcard with their self-made stamp and a design on the other side about the house where they are living...their place. The mail-artist who will receive the card will add his/her house/place onto the card and send them back to the kid. So I can start planning a little international expo with all the results of this mini-project.
I'm sure of one thing, the kids are loving it and some cards already arrived somewhere on this planet and those artists are loving it too already!!! Only fun and happy people over the globe!

THANKS to all my IUOMA - friends, The international union of mail-artists
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Sinds twee weken ben ik druk bezig met de organisatie van een mini-project op de twee academies waar ik lesgeef. Ik heb de leerlingen meegesleurd in een nieuwe wereld...deze van de mail-art of Kunst per post. Zij hebben hun kaart klaargestoomd met een afbeelding/collage/ reliëf van hun huis/omgeving en de bedoeling is dat de mail-art kunstenaars verspreid over deze bol een verbeelding maken van hun omgeving/woonplaats en deze kaart dan terugsturen naar de kinderen. Beide partijen zijn voorlopig razend enthousiast over dit hele heen-en weer gepost...zegels plakken, onbekende adressen in verre landen...zo spannend!
We wachten af vol ongeduld!

Photoshoot

I draw and cook

Thought it is interesting to show the different steps of the proces to illustrate this recipe.
Just sended it to theydrawandcook.com....and hoping they will like it.
If I think of rice and corn...mmmm...then I cannot wait anymore!
By the way, illustrating recipes brings so much FUN!

And in some minutes I've made this bookmark for my excellent Peruvian cooking book :
El arte de la cocina Peruana by Tony Custer.
And indeed, bookmarks too are so fun to create...mmm :)