A Blog Full of Birds

zondag 17 juli 2016

Drawings, ceramics, linocuts and the Project Drukwerk in de Marge 40+

Sktechbook: Spring 2015, flowers at home

and the young penguins of Rotterdam Zoo / Diergaarde Blijdorp

Sktechbook: Spring 2015, Geelpoot honingzuiger / Purple honeycreeper

(Cyanerpes caeruleus), Rotterdam Zoo / Diergaarde Blijdorp

Bird Ceramics, 2014-2015

A Book full of Birds I, 2013 (linocut and sketches)

A Book full of Birds II (2014) and III (2015) linocut

(sketches made at Victoria Serre, a greenhouse at Rotterdam Zoo)

Project Drukwerk in de Marge 40+, 2015

Project on the occasion of the 40th year of Drukwerk in de Marge

The project was presented in the Oranjery of the Hortus Leiden (with a dinner), on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of Drukwerk in de Marge, on Saturday 31 October, after the Boekkunstbeurs (Book Art Fair).

My linocuts, without text, only 40+ birds

Without text only 40+ birds, first page, linocut

second and third page, linocut

forth page, linocut

Sketching at Victoria Serre, Diergaarde Blijdorp

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.