Mia.

(By the way, the beautiful background photo is not mine (unfortunately), it’s by Machel Spence)

Screen print sketches! These will be screenprinted in one colour :)

Salmon! A piece I made for a gallery's 'sex sells' themed window. I didn't want to make anything too obviously themed so I used spawning salmon as a metaphor. Made with stencils and acryllic paint.

I decided to do a little more stencil illustrations, since the last ones worked out so well -> Beetle, no. 3 in the ‘Broken’ series!

#Throwback to my first year of art school, when we had the opportunity to use Liquitex paints and mediums. Very fun to do!

My submissions for an editorial illustration ‘contest’. The story was about two fights, one during dead-goat-polo in Kirghizistan and one between two monks under a bridge in New Delhi. Unfortunately, they didn’t get chosen, but I still think they’re bloody awesome.

A sketch for an editorial illustration about two fights in ‘tall tale’ theme. I love tall tales :)

(The fact that the wolf has no shadow is on purpose, because he doesn’t exist. At least, as a child I tried to convince myself it didn’t exist. Oh sh-t, just discovered Riding Hood doesn’t have one either... Oh well, never mind.)

I went to Zine Camp today and drew my contribution :) I'm really proud of how my broken animal stencils worked out!

I'm also currently working on my Time Spirit again. I put it aside for a year or so, but now it's time to continue...

Drew a long beaked crow and a stuffed fox while experimenting with ecoline, watercolour and ink. I really should use ecoline more often...

Another ‘gnomes with rainboot-hats’ scene. I’m thinking of remaking them by hand, that’ll look a lot better.

I felt like drawing gnomes with rainboots as hats. This could be a story, I think... :)

Two school quarters ago I made these three booklets about illiteracy. The title, which is inly readable when you puzzle the books together, is a Dutch saying. It means something like ‘reading someone else’s books in the darkness’, which means that it is difficult to understand one another. This is exactly the problem in this taboo: people who can read don’t understand the ones who can’t, so I decided to fill the books with comics without text or captions, so that the ‘reader’ would know what it feels like to be illiterate. I made them in such a way that the ‘reader’ wants to know what the comics say. That way, illiteracy wouldn’t be that much of a taboo anymore.

Finally I can post these online! Devin Wijkhuijzen and I made masks for Hi-di-hi, a bag-brand. We made a hummingbird, a falcon and a rabbit for the Spring 2015 collection. Everything was done with cardboard, paint and a lot of hot glue. A LOT.

Dialogue illiteracy 9 - School assignment about taboo

Dialogue illiteracy 8 - School assignment about taboo