Wednesday, May 14, 2014

The Sataninnies


Grieving mother

A recent sketchbook page, with random studies after Hieronymus Bosch, Matthias Gruenewald and Nicolas Presl.  
Sofar, I have been hesitant to use the theme of the high child death rates in Bosch's time, but now i think i might use it. Bosch and his wife might not have had any, but since births were not registered, we can't be certain. What we do know is that artists would hide personal messages in their commissioned work, so the grief of a donor may well have been the same as the artist's. 
primitive angel

Friday, May 09, 2014

Correction rounds: Jheronimus and the lepers




I am going to have to do a few rounds of corrections to the pages of my Jheronimus book... At the top, the 2013 version of a page from chapter 3 (the first i started working on), at the bottom a more detailed version from today. The glossy paper i use allows this kind of treatment without damaging the material too much. At first, i thought i could get away with leaving lots of space empty. Nonsense, of course. Call it tedium vacui for my part. But seriously, after colouring these pages it would not work. And at the start of the book i was more concerned with moving ahead with the story than with filling in all the blanks.

Thursday, May 08, 2014

Aleksandra Waliszewska PROBLEM / SOLUTION second edition




First edition of "Problem/Solution" sold out in a month and a half. Thus, we decided to come up with a second edition. All works are scanned anew and are better quality. Each book has 200 pages, more by additional 60 pages than the 1st edition. All works were selected and ordered by myself. David Tibet wrote extended versions of the introduction. All in all, it was worthwhile to hesitate then and get it now.

http://www.timeless-shop.com/prod/problemsolution-special-edition-aleksandra-waliszewska-2007,new.html 

http://www.timeless-shop.com/prod/problem-aleksandra-waliszewska-2006,new.html

http://www.timeless-shop.com/prod/solution-aleksandra-waliszewska-2005,new.html

Tuesday, May 06, 2014

Mechanista on the Plasmic Plain.

This drawing was a 30 x 30 cm commission done in my old crosshatch style that I haven't used in awhile. Decided to use a red pencil crayon for the amorphous blobs in the background, then went over them with white ink.


doodleydoodles

Sunday, May 04, 2014

Goblin shark

Hello Mr. (Mrs?) Goblin Shark.

Two excellent short films

 These are two of my favourite films from last year. If you have 23 minutes to spare.

 Nina Shorina's Room Of Laughter. Makes me think how underutilized animation is for making dark and disturbing films. Really strange and satisfying.
 Somehow it wont show up on the video finder to be embedded on this page, so click here to see it on youtube.

 Here is Watson/Webber's version of Fall Of The House Of Usher. I think this is far better than most of the silent horror canon, short and sweet.

DREAMDRAGON

Saturday, May 03, 2014

Inbreed Illustrated

Appeared in issue #1 of HOTWIRE Comix

Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Popularity LP



This is some of the art I did for Kris Wadsworth's LP 'Popularity' The top image is from the cd gatefold.







some doodles for some small and bigger events.

Sunday, April 27, 2014

Adolf Wolfli

Going through some of my old stuff and making scans. This portrait of Adolf Wolfli is from 1997. Black and white ink on top of xeroxed zip-a-tone structures. (No photoshoppery in those days yet). This was published in my anthology Thank god it's Ugly #6, of which still a few copies remain.

Saturday, April 26, 2014

7e p'tit printemps (more pictures)



Caroline Dayot
Barbara F.


Caroline Dayot

Cynthia Chazal

Hui Zheng

Joe 99


Lucrèce

Marie-Jeanne Faravel
Joe 99

Nuvish

Sophie Rüttimann

Thierry Lambert

Virginie Chomette

Fantasy art - 2d round

I show you this one in progress, here it's complete
after that someone asked me for a second one which is supposed to be the same drawing
of course as i did it quickly & after it's not really working....






















i tried to put them aside but...

Thursday, April 24, 2014