As an ongoing project without an expiration date-so to speak-I illustrate children’s poems by Dr. Franz Andres Morrissey.
Jun 20th, 2010
As an ongoing project without an expiration date-so to speak-I illustrate children’s poems by Dr. Franz Andres Morrissey.
May 27th, 2010
Lately, I have been thinking about anthropomorphized animals, so I flipped through a coffee table book on Beatrix Potter. In Beatrix Potter. At Home in the Lake District, Susan Denyer juxtaposes Potter’s home in the Lake District in Northern England with her art. By doing so, it becomes clear that Denyer draws on the importance [...]
Dec 3rd, 2009
I made this illustration for my friend Sandro, the craziest cat-lover of all time. Don’t worry, this furry friend wasn’t sent to outer space for experimental reasons-he’s the feline explorer who’s got it all under control!
For my book illustrations I use Royal Talen’s finest Rembrandt watercolors. Water colours are a transparent paint based on Gum arabic. Painting in water colour is a technique whereby the paint, thinned with water or as it is, is applied on special water colour paper. The paint has various constituents including pure pigments and Gum [...]
Jan 2nd, 2008
House by the Shore (2008) I began photographing this painting in its different stages. This I find very helpful because to retrace one’s steps can help in one’s future artistic endeavors: For instance, in the first two stages, the painting, in my opinion, looks lighter and more vivid than its final version. Keeping this in [...]
Jul 20th, 2003
Acrylic paint, spray paint, permanent marker, collage on wood, 2,40m x 2,60m, 2003. The Terrible Tooth Monster is a fictional B-movie character I came up with in 2003. Back then I thought extensively about the kind of flicks I saw as a teenager. I think watching television in the 80s and 90s was more fun. [...]
May 20th, 2002
A Tribute to the 80s (Mixed technique, 34.7x 34.7cm. 2002) This is a series -I named it “A Tribute to the 80s” – which I did during my studies in Lucerne, Switzerland. Back then, I found that films from the 1980s were a great source of inspiration. This series depicts scenes from films such as, [...]