Danika Kersten

I printed this etch last week, and whereas I’d been struggling a lot with the first couple of batches, I finally got the hang of it!! I’m so happy :)) Man I love etching actually...

This picture is pretty crappy, I’ll try to make some scans of my work at the studio soon. So far it’s been mostly learning and testing though, so I guess it’s nothing spectacular.

This year’s Christmas card :) The colouring was a bit out of my comfort zone for some reason, so I’m afraid I may have overworked it. At the same time I’m pretty pleased!

Today I got a very strong urge to just make super basic sketches of some of the elderly people. I obviously don’t remember what they really look like - apart from some vague details like their hair colour or general body shape - so I tried basing these sketches on their personalities and quirks I remember about them.

[ID: Eight pictures of a reduction woodcut process. Picture one shows ten prints of a bouquet - with blue, lilac and dark pink flowers - in two rows on a table. Picture two shows what the woodcut looks like before it was used to print anything, and picture three after printing five layers: there is pretty much nothing left. Picture four to eight are pictures of layers one to five respectively. The first layer is lilac, the second adds dark pink, the third light blue, the fourth green and the final blue. end ID]

It’s finished! It’s fun playing with all the layers :))

I’ve started colouring this landscape project. I’m making five versions of the same natural area, so most elements are separate so I can easily replace that puddle for example for a more geometric pond later. It’s working really well so far! I can leave out pretty much any element and it still looks like a landscape. The only thing left for me to colour for this version is a track and some shrubs!

wip for a cool assignment I’m working on at the moment :))

 It’ll be a basic but fun exercise, that a fair few of my short comics (i.e. the Stately Scarecrow) are based on. It’s been too long since I just chose a fun picture an just let my imagination run wild, and I should really try it again some time! 

A little preview of number 3 out of 4 bug-themed colouring pictures :))

Another wip/little preview of a drawing for the workshop I’m gonna give (which has been moved to April)!

My sister used to write many, many columns and other for the paper. My dad, a journalist at the same paper, decided to make a book with all of her stories and asked me to illustrate some of them. :))

I made this woodcut of my mum and Goran as a Sinterklaas gift :))

The drawings for this year’s christmas card! :DD The first one goes on the front and the second on the inside

Wip for a workshop I've been asked to do in January!

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