88 Rue Mouffetard

88 Rue Mouffetard, Paris, was the address of Hans Bellmer and Unica Zuern for 20 years. Both are fascinating artists, albeit not as well-known as other Surrealists. I used a photo of it as reference. It was a rather dilapitated hotel, which was torn down some time in the 1970s.

More on this: https://lesdentslabouche.wordpress.com/2015/06/09/88-rue-mouffetard-remarks-on-an-anagram-by-unica-zurn/
 

Ksenia reads the paper

Ksenia the feral cat-woman has learned to read.

 

 "1½ portrait" (watercolour and coffee on paper, 13x18 cm)

1913 Cityscape

Obviously I used photo reference here (of pre-war Rotterdam) but manipulated beyond recognition. Otherwise, why not just trace or worse, use filtered photos? 

Working on a new storyline involving the role of chance. 

 

“Dead city” ink on paper

 

 “ fire power“  ink on paper 

I’ve been continuing my series of violent art “attack” 2021

 

A study for nothing “ what should never be”

 

New Sketchbook

Painted new characters on the cover of my new sketchbook (#82) My sketches are often in full colour while the finished work is in black & white. I guess that is just me.
 

Hard Times

A winterly scene with street musicians. More new stuff on my new website: https://marcelruijters.wordpress.com/

 

Séance

 

Mano a mano 5

 

Mano a mano 4

 Another variation on the theme of agressive women and men being passive, albeit aroused spectators. It is becoming a bit of a running gag in my stories.

Badminton

What it says on the cover.

 

Good morning

 

Fast Lane

 

Asylum

Sketch after a photo by August Sander.

 

Under the Thumb

'Under the thumb of Sweetwater Communism'. A preliminary drawing of a key scene in my upcoming book, which is set in an imaginary Holland under a communist regime in 1913. The joke of course is that my country is very, very bourgeois and anything remotely resembling a communist takeover has always been out of the question. If there is anything collectivistic about the Dutch, it's the struggle against the seatide and a Protestant work ethic.  I imagine it as a toned-down, jovial kind of surveillance state, based on those values.