Category Archives: arts

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Workshop: Eenvoudige patronen in aquarel

Mijn liefde voor aquarel is de afgelopen jaren gegroeid; ik kwam er voor het eerst mee in aanraking bij de online lessen van Creative Bug. De allereerste lessen die ik daar volgde waren bij illustrator […]

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Workshop: Eenvoudige boekjes maken

Ik ben altijd al gek van boekjes geweest: lezen, door tijdschriften met mooie prints bladeren, fotoboeken en art journals maken. De geur van papier, inkt en verf, het fysieke gevoel van bladeren en naar mooie […]

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Art journal: Bare branches

Front cover art journal Bare Branches I’ve been following Laura Horn for a while now and I’ve taken a couple of her classes. She has this fantastic year program called the Creative Blend Program and […]

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Coming back from the Museum Market

Last month Kees and I rented a stall at the Museum Market in Amsterdam. We are looking back at a good day: we had friends coming by, we talked to strangers about our art, we […]

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Virtual Art Summit ’23: layering with stencils

I’ve participated in the Virtual Art Summit 2023 which hosted by Kellee Wynn Studios. She started organizing these summits during the first year of the pandemic, this is the fourth and Kellee’s final year. Kellee’s […]

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Commission: Portrait of the Theologian of the Fatherland

One of my colleagues at the marketing departement of VU University asked me to take some portraits of Katya Tolstaya, who was chosen as Theologian of the Fatherland recently. Katya’s wish was to pose in […]

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Slow Art Party: Encircle

This week’s shape in the Slow Art Party was Encircle. You can clearly see why Amy choose this word for this shape. We just made simple brush strokes in watercolour in a circular movement and […]

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Slow Art Party: Row

This week’s pattern in the Slow Art Party was Row. You can clearly see why Amy choose this word for this pattern. We made simple brush strokes in watercolour in a straight and elongated movement […]

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Bookmaking: Finished journal with kraft paper

Oh yeah, I had a lot of fun making my first book for The Art Journal Project with Michelle Schratz. I used up a little of the enormous heap of kraft paper that I’ve been […]