Wednesday, May 14, 2014
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.
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.
Labels:
Bosch,
comics,
Marcel Ruijters,
middle ages,
Renaissance,
sketchbook,
sketches
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.
Labels:
Bosch,
comics,
Marcel Ruijters,
middle ages,
Renaissance
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.
Sunday, May 04, 2014
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.
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.
Labels:
animation,
Nina Shorina,
short horror films,
Watson and Webber
Saturday, May 03, 2014
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.
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.
Labels:
Marcel Ruijters,
outsider art
Saturday, April 26, 2014
7e p'tit printemps (more pictures)
| Caroline Dayot |
| Barbara F. |
| Caroline Dayot |
| Cynthia Chazal |
| Hui Zheng |
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| Joe 99 |
| Lucrèce |
| Marie-Jeanne Faravel |
| Joe 99 |
| Nuvish |
| Sophie Rüttimann |
| Thierry Lambert |
| Virginie Chomette |
Labels:
Chapelle de la grande fabrique,
exhibition
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...
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
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