#antropomorphic

Walking back home

“Amanita”, color pencil & acrylics on matting board, 29-03-2019.

“Marrow-3”, color pencil & acrylics on matting board, 27-03-2019.

Second piece of “Marrow”, the name I gave to the bone/fungus series, in progress. More pieces to come!

Work in progress: one of a series revolving around bones/fungus. At this stage I’m pushing in the colors & fighting the black, where the highlights & color saturation has to be emphasized.

“Unfolding” - color pencils & acrylics on matting board, 18-03-2019

“Clawing Earth” part 1-4, color pencil & acrylic on matting board. All part of a langer series entitled “Fleeting Earth”. Expect to see more pieces in the near future, my mind is still racing about all the possibilities. Enjoy!

“Clawing Earth” part 3, color pencil & acrylic on matting board 10-02-2019 & part 4 in a very early stage. Part 4 will be a return to full color, can’t wait to make those colors pop.

On the left you see the first composition sketch & transfer.

“Clawing Earth” color pencil & acrylic on matting board in progress. 2 new pieces of the “Fleeting Earth” series, inspired by my last homage to Albrecht Dürer. More pieces to come!

“Fleeting Earth” color pencil & acrylic on matting board 05-02-2019. The start of a new series, inspired by my last homage to Albrecht Dürer. I’m really fired up about this new series: my mind is racing about all the possibilities, so expect to see a lot more pieces, both in full color & tonal like this one.

“Hommage à Albrecht Dürer” Part 2, white color pencil on matting board. Again combining 2 of my favorite pieces from AD: “Wing of a European Roller” & “The Great Piece of Turf”. I’m really pleased with the flow of the composition & hesitated a moment to add color to it but decided to stick with the initial plan of full color & do another variant in black & white. Model of the European Roller provided by the talented @daniellefrenken_taxidermy_art, making the execution of this idea, that much easier.

Tour admat for Baroness for their North American co-headline tour with Deafheaven, with Zeal & Ardor joining them, in March/April 2019.

Always a pleasure & honor to work with John, although this one was produced under a bit of time pressure, even more than usual with an aperfectmonster collab ( I’m not complaining, mind you.) because of that, I didn’t take my usual time to sort out models, etc but straight away went to my archive of photos: the osprey is based on a great shot by @joinus12345 & the heart/beetle is based on an earlier design of mine (go down my feed to find that one.) That being said, limited time can sometimes lead to good things: it forces me to make bolder decisions, “downside” might be that I had to do a bit more digital work. I made this in 5 days from scratch. Swipe to see the art in different stages. Layout by John Dyer Baizly.

Thank you again John for your trust!

❤️

Almost done with the digital phase of this piece. Only some smaller pieces left to do for this ambitious project & then it’s a wrap. I can’t wait to reveal the whole thing but I guess we all have to patient.

Nearing the end of the color pencil stage of this ambitious project, consisting of multiple pieces interacting with each other. Next up boosting certain areas with acrylics: deepen colors, shadows & accenting the highlights. After that scanning & digital touch ups.

Detail of the finished first layer of what is going to be a full color piece of an ambitious project involving multiple pieces interacting with each other. This stage is done in personal favorite pencils, brown/yellow ochres @fabercastellglobal & white @caran_dache. This provides a solid base, that keeps the whole piece from falling apart when I go wild with colors.