lots of lili

My wife started a web shop, so I made here a logo. 

Christmas crack-her

Greeting card for Omygod, a Belgian communication agency.

Happy apocalypse!

Guido Van Lier, art director at Vrij Nederland, asked me to come up with an, if possible, not so common illustration for the Christmas issue. So I made a combination with the 'upcoming' Apocalypse, happening just a few days before X-mas. The end of the world never looked as warm and joyful as this.

Karina

Finished and ready for printing. 'Karina schildert kunst' ('Karina paints art'), a new book with Dutch writer Frans Lasès coming early 2013.

Woohoo, New York Times!!!

A few weeks ago AD Alexandra Zsigmond from the New York Times contacted me to ask if I was interested in doing a small black & white piece for the Op-Ed Letters section. I was hoping that SI golden medal would bring some attention to my work, but I surely wasn't expecting a mail from the NYT... the very next day! So thank you very much Alexandra for my first ever US commission.

Society of Illustrators Gold Medal

I don't get a phone call from New York everyday (it's actually the first one ever ;-)), but this one made me shiver and smile: I won a Society of Illustrators gold medal for my Bokrijk piece!!!! Better start saving for that plane ticket to NYC...

Bonus: a scoop on cobra.be

Boekenbeurs 2012

Voor ik het vergeet: zaterdag 10 november signeer ik van 14 tot 17 uur op de stand van De Eenhoorn een boek naar keuze. Natuurlijk liefst een waar ik aan heb meegewerkt... ;-) Tot dan?

Throne

I made some new friends last week... 
'Throne', acrylic on three 120 x 230 cm panels. 
For the Art Box exhibition in Kortrijk.

Are we still having sex?

Weekend Knack - 10/10/12

New ones for De Tijd

'Phishing'

'Abyss'

Breasts survey

Humo - 25/09/12

Karina

New book, coming somewhere in early 2013. 
A bit of modernism, a tat of post-modernism and a dash of post-post-modernism...

Your money = my piñata

A new one for Netto/De Tijd this saturday.

Memory

Çava magazine

work/study

This saturday in Netto/De Tijd.

Netto/De Tijd

The last couple of months I have been working a bit for the Belgian newspaper De Tijd. Here is a small selection of the latest illustrations.

Book of Illustrated Dreams

For the 'Book of Illustrated Dreams', an ongoing project by Roger Omar. 
"I dreamed that the cartoon characters were alive and I could meet them, until the day that a fat and ugly pirate came to kidnap all the children who watched cartoons. I got into action and one morning put him a trap, he stopped." - Laura, aged 9, Spain

Batman vs. Mr. Blow Up

acrylic on paper, 30 x 22 cm
SUPER & Co exhibition, 12/10 - 31/12, Brussels

Organ donation

Çava magazine.

Snoecks

There will be 3 illustrations of mine in the 2013 Snoecks Almanack, all accompanying a short story. This one is for 'Some other Katherine' by Sam Byers.

Something I love

Filmmaker Joachim Vansteelant made a little film with me whining about finances, doing the dishes and eating pudding...

Art class

acrylic on paper - 30 x 40 cm

Jeffrey

logo for an upholsterer
brush and ink on paper

Wealth planning

D̶e̶ ̶T̶i̶j̶d̶  L'Echo - 06/06/12

Hmmm, exccccellent...

My 'Boekenbeurs' illustration in the Communication Arts Illustration Annual 2012.

Yesss! Finally ready!

Next up, eh... a new book :-o

Home work balance

Scoop magazine 

De poppen van oma

New book with Brigitte Minne, coming september 2012. 
Almost ready...

Switch

Netto/De Tijd - 05/05/12

Pencils and Penselen

Attention, there's a new website in town and it is focusing entirely on Dutch and Flemish illustrators. 
Thanks to Frank Daenen and Wim Lockefeer for their hard work!

4% extra taxes for anonymity

Netto/De Tijd - 28/04/12

New book pt. 3

Another one for De Tijd...

A magazine for everybody

Bruce magazine

Boekenpluim 2012

Yesterday I won a Boekenpluim for 'De dokter en het leger van Davy'. The Boekenpluim is an encouragement prize for the illustrations in

a Flemish children's book. Congratulations to Pieter Gaudesaboos who

also won a Boekenpluim and to Leo Timmers who won the Boeken-

pauw, prize for the most beautiful children's book.

You can check out a few pictures on the boek.be site and some news

items here and here.

Introverts

Weekend Knack 11/04/12

Arm yourself...

... against low interest - Netto/De Tijd (07/04/12)

Philosophy special

Vrij Nederland - 29/03/12

Goose board game

I was asked by the open air museum of Bokrijk to come up with a new 450 x 360 cm large goose board game to replace the old one designed 10 years ago. They wanted a fresh look and absurd interpretation of what is actually a classic in Belgian and Dutch board games, so they gave me 'carte blanche'.
The difficult part was to make sure that, according to the rules of the game, all the numbers matched with their corresponding action (for example 52 is a prison so you have to stop until you throw an even number with the dice, number 31 a well where you have to stop until you throw an odd number,...) but also to keep the illustration dynamic and exciting. The dust cloud seemed to be a blessing for the composition and the perfect coat hanger for the numbers and running people and animals.

The illustration is printed on foil and glued to a large wall in a 200 year old barn.

Taxman trespass

Netto/De Tijd - 17/03/12

Boekenpauw 2012

Woohoo! 'De dokter en het leger van Davy' is nominated for a Boekenpauw, prize for the most beautiful children's book illustrated by a Flemish illustrator.

Raak! - Wild van jonge boeken

On February 16th I was invited by Raak! to talk a bit about 'De dokter en het leger van Davy' and the new book I am working on. Star of the evening was the fantastic Bart Moeyaert. More photos (by Mathys Delva) can be found on this Facebook page.