Streetview

 

Swimming in sketches

 

Hûh? Eh...

Into unknown territory.

 

Richard Gerstl

From my current sketchbook. Probing new ideas for a future story. Perhaps some of them will eventually hatch. Also, a caricature of Richard Gerstl appeared. A tragic Viennese painter who committed suicide after a failed affair with Mathilde Schoenberg, wife of the famous avantgarde composer Arnold Schoenberg (whom he has been giving painting lessons). Good painter, btw, and I feel a little bit guilty of making fun of him.  Interestingly, he had been taught by the very conservative Christian Griepenkerl (a delightful name) who had also been giving Egon Schiele a similarly hard time - and who rejected Adolf Hitler from entering art school. That is three strikes!

 

Sketchbook #90

Started a new sketchbook. Number 90. 'Argh! Just when we were winning!'

 

Hotel Blanc

From my sketchbook. When i was thinking about what to give this post as a title, I thought of the song 'Hotel Blanc' by Edward Ka-Spel, which is one of the most surreal pieces in my collection.
 

From sketchbook 89

 

Behold the daughters of the firmament

From my latest sketchbook. Found a chest with Ecoline watercolours again that was gethering dust in a corner. I used to use those in the past. They're too bright to my current taste, but in a sketchbook you don't set any rules for yourself and I kind of like the purple sky that came out of this.

 

Sketchbook 89

The front of sketchbook 89. White ink on black paper.
 

Sketchbook 88 coloured cover

Kind of a repost. I felt the rare impulse to use colour again.
 

Assimilated Pazuzu guys

 

Pola Reading & Franz Kafka

 Leisure time for Pola Kazoni and a semi-serious attempt at Franz Kafka. I came across a paragraph on how he tried to battle a burn-out by gardening in Florian Illies' 1913. A fun book.

Cafe Bibberkop

From my sketchbook. With Til Brugman and Hannah Höch in the background.

 

Cafe Autodafe

Cafe Autodafe, where car afficionados meet. Sketch.

 

Sketchbook 88

Like it says on the label. The cover of sketchbook 88. White and black ink and ditto markers  on black canvas
 

Family Viewing

Family viewing. Study of one of my character's family background. Hondsdag (his name means dog day, which is randomly chosen) comes from money, his mom divorced and he has been living off his wealthy dad's allowance. Then the business was nationalised after a sweetwater-communist takeover, which broke his dad. In his later days. Hondsdag took to taking care of him. Then Hondsdag's secret crush Pola got a doppelganger in the multiverse who went to live with him and who took to plastic surgery at the doctor's that his mom chose to live with.

The narrative is getting a bit complicated, but that is how I like it. Besides, books are becoming expensive so a graphic novel should be worth several readings. Especially now.

 

Kids like to see blood

 

More from sketchbook 87

 

From sketchbook 87

 More recent sketches from book #87. These are embryonic ideas. Some may get used, other will be frozen. Among the character studies is Pola Kazoni's daughter as teenager.

Puberty, after Edward Munch