Since a few weeks I’ve been attending a printmaking workshop at a local school. This is one of my first prints; a two-color linocut.
Category Archives: illustration
Selling Calenders
Here’s a picture from last year, just before Christmas, when I was selling calenders in the Stenberg cafe. It was freezing cold that day, so I was glad to be asked to sit inside!
I made this calender for the year 2016 and it is illustrated with twelve drawings of old farm buildings at the Stenberg Museum.
I only have a few left, just send me an email if you are interested in having one.
Character Sketch for The Landlady
Sketches
Painting into a wet underpainting
In the book ‘Creative Illustration’ by Andrew Loomis there is an interesting theory about color relations.
In short, he explains that by mixing a little of one color into all the other colors on the palette, the colors become related and a harmonious painting is automatically the result.
Instead of mixing on the palette you can also paint directly into a wet underpainting. I tested out this technique and copied one of the four example portraits from the book.
I covered the whole canvas with a thin layer of blue, into which I painted all the other colors.
Product Design Sketches
Illustrations for a poetry book
For the past few months I’ve been very busy working on illustrations for a poetry book, written by author Elin Sveen.
She has published three books; “Fra barnsdommens rike” in 2008, “Minnebok fra krigen” in 2009, and “Å spinne seg en gylden tråd” in 2010.
“Hålasdaar Mæ Sokker På” was released last week on the 1st of May 2015.
The poems are written in the “Toten” dialect, a norwegian local language from the Toten region, about 100 km above Oslo.
In Norway there are many different sounding dialects that even sometimes a native Norwegian speaker may have difficulty understanding.
Speaking the local dialect is encouraged and people are proud to do so.
This is the opposite in the Netherlands where I grew up. There I learned to hide my original dialect -in my case “Twents“- from a young age. Fortunately this is changing a bit now and dialects are more appreciated.
I made the drawings in this book with the common theme of the poems of nature and traditions in mind.
This was a great project to do and I’m pleased to be part of the making of this wonderful book.
James Dean portrait sketch
Logo Design
I did an illustration for a local farm selling honey, meat and vegetables.
Here’s the logo printed on a paper bag and jars of honey:
(photo from www.ulsrudbakken.no)
Fabulous 50s postcards
Retro illustration
Fishing Cat Illustration
Illustrations I have been working on
Fifties style illustration with halftone effect
Cat playing with wool
It has been a while since I made something for illustration Friday. I had real fun drawing our cat for this week’s topic: wool.

Illustration Friday: Glow

Illustration Friday: Shy

Halloween Witch
For this week’s illustration friday theme ‘haunt’.
I started with a small sketch in one-point perspective:
After painting the shapes in photoshop, mostly with the polygonal lasso tool, I merged all shapes of similar color to one layer. So all the windows are on one layer, the moon+street on the next, the shadows of the building on another, and so on.
Then I stretched and moved these layers a little to obtain a screenprint-like effect.
Finally I added a paper texture and some scratches and dirt with various brushes.
A similar technique is used in my illustration ‘lost’.

Concorde flying over city skyline

Swimming Illustration, 50’s style

Two Airplanes Flying in Formation

Illustration Friday: Burst

Illustration Friday: Teacher

Illustration Friday: Lonely

Illustration Friday: Lost

Illustration Friday: Return

Airplane Comic

Illustration Friday: Swamp

Illustration Friday: Shades
