Hondsdag's father

After Vallotton.
 

about Titane 2021

 

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.