dinsdag 30 september 2014

Acrylic Paintings of Birds

For these paintings of Belbirds (10x15 cm) was my inspiration the beautiful photos of Amanda Keogh. She lives in New Zealand where she take amazing and sensitive photos of nature.  


Double Portrait I: Little Owl and Common Pheasant (2x 202x20 cm)


Blackbird (10x10 cm)

Puffin (10x10 cm)

Cormorant (10x10 cm)

Barn Owls (10x10 cm)

Canadian Geese (18x13cm)

Avocado plant with birds (18x13 cm)





zondag 31 augustus 2014

Drawing birds, plants and trees in Rotterdam Zoo

White-rumped Shama

They are very curious...

They give me good ideas...

Von der Decken's Hornbill came to have a look, 
when I was drawing a Red-billed Leiothrix.

Sketching this new visitor...

Red-billed Leiothrix and the tree.

Red-billed Leiothrix was the only one in the greenhouse 
and was always with other birds, 
such as here with a Common Emerald Dove in her nest.

Crowned Lapwing

Juni and Juli at the Greenhouse: a lot of young birds

There were two Toco Toucans in the incubator, born on 12 June. 

It was nice to see and sketch their development.

And Gentoo Penguins also had young this year.

dinsdag 8 april 2014

Sketching in the Greenhouses at Rotterdam Zoo

In my another blog about Greenhouses in Rotterdam Zoo (you can have a look in this link) I wrote that the greenhouses are my favorite place. I still remember how wonderful it was, when I was at the Zoo in 2007 (for the first time). I see so many beautiful birds which I had never seen before!

Great Kiskadee (Pitangus sulphuratus)
 It is nice to sit somewhere en to watch the birds flying (sometimes really very close), taking a bath or eating And to listen to their songs and talks.

I love to sketch there and I got many ideas for my work and stories.
 It is for me also a nice place to feel again in harmony with life.

Pied Imperial Pigeon (Ducula bic)

2013

If I am drawing it happens sometimes that they came very close to have a look...
White-rumped Shama (Copsychus malabaricus)

19-01-2011

White-rumped Shama (Copsychus malabaricus)

Sketch books 2013

Black-naped Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus melanospilus)

Sketch books made by myself.

09-03-2011

Chrested Oropendola or Suriname Crested Oropendola (Psarocolius decumanus)

 Hanging woven nest of a  Crested Oropendola (Psarocolius decumanus)
Nature is so wise...

Sketch books 2013

Green Turaco (Tauraco persa)

Fantasy and day dreams....

Chestnut-bellied Seed Finch (Oryzoborus angolensis)

13-07-2011

Tawny Frogmouth  (Podargus strigoides)

11-01-2011

Golden Pheasant (Chrysolophus pictus)

11-01-2011

Red-billed Leiothrix (Leiothrix lutea) is always 
with the couple Roul-roul (Rollulus rouloul)

09-03-2011

zaterdag 11 januari 2014

Early works with birds, 1992-1999 - Part 3

Since juli 1992 I live and work in the Netherlands. First in Amsterdam, then from 1999 in Delft. It had been very busy time:
• Reading to learn Dutch, speak and write (I could only understand).
• Seeking for a rental home and moving five times.
• Worked at three institutions as volunteer and for stage, and worked on six projects for ‘bread on the table’.
• Studied Art History at the University of Leiden, Collection Conservation and Information Management by GO.
Yet I have find some time to drawn and made linocuts. 
Hereby a small selection of works.

Sketch of Boudewijn and other students in a drawing course, 1993

Autumn, watercolor, 1992

Breakfast, watercolor, 1993

Envelope and Christmas Cards, 1992 en 1993

Amsterdam, linocut, 1994

Santa Maria Novella, linocut, 1995

Linocut for 12,5 years existence of the Kruispost / Cross Post (Amsterdam, 1995)
The Waiting Room of the Hope

Muntoren, Linocut, 1998

Year in, out, in - linocut, 1999

Serie of  reed pen and inkt drawings for an exhibition in Leiden, Amsterdam and Breda, 1993

God created birds

God created fish

The announcement of Jesus

The birth of Jesus

Mary with Jesus

Joseph with Jesus

Holy family under the tree

The transfiguration

The last supper

The crossing

The Resurrection
Anastasis

The four Evangelists

Lexicon of artists from Rio Grande do Sul, 1997
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