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My latest prints produced with riso on A3 thick artist paper, in edition of 25 signed and numbered, available for sale!
Please have a look at my online shop they work great in kids rooms or as a playful interior addition for adults.
Thank you :)
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My latest picture book book with Korean Publisher Who’s Got My Tail "Would you like to meet my family?“ Meet families in all their lovely differences, shapes, sizes and colours! You can order the book from here with worldwide delivery.
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Bits and pieces of my current book project for Chinese publisher Dolphin Media. It’s children’s poems picture book!
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“Imaginary fruits” workshop I designed for Summer Craft Festival organised by Jacaranda Tree Montessori Amsterdam. Our trees were growing all kinds of things!
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“it takes courage to grow up and become who you really are”©
My spot illustrations ‘Plant This’ & 'Cook this’ for a US based magazine Illustoriaissue #4, “Grow”.
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New project I made with Kaori!
“Spirit chimeras” silkscreen print on a natural dyed cotton, an exhibition piece in collaboration with Kaori Pie for Grafische werkplaats, the Hague.
We are all different yet we share some similarities. We try to fit into certain groups but tend to differ from others. We try to place our differences and similarities into categories like ethnicity, upbringing, race or gender. To emphasise how different and yet how similar we all are, we created a universe of chimeras that all share certain body parts or patterns as well as have their own unique parts. They exist together and seem wildly different while still sharing something with one another.
We are moving towards a society that is mixing influences and more and more, cultures are being intertwined and translated into other expressions. As we are reborn into new lives with different societal and cultural constructs, we can’t help but be influenced or inspired by what we see in other people from around the wold. Passion and the spirit in the human mind find these connections that draw us to each other to learn and to feel engaged in a broader mission than to find reasons to divide us into our differences.
Here is the world where our creatures live, with their powers both shared as well as expressed in a different way.
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I did a little interview with Illustoria Magazine where you can exclusively see a photo of tomatoes from my grandma’s garden as well as read about my work :)
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Working at the Grafisfhe werkplaats the whole day, trying to learn patience and gracefulness through the silkscreening process.
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I just heard good news! My colour is rainbow book is going to be reprinted since its almost sold out! I’m over the moon <3 Thank you to whoever you are buying and reading our book <3
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Dear friends, I’m happy to post here about my new book that was published at the beginning of this month.
“My color is rainbow” is a children’s picture book, written by Agnes Hsu, illustrated and designed by me.
The artwork in this book was created manually in ink and assembled digitally.
“Follow Little White Arch on his journey as he wonders what his color could be. Along the way he meets many colorful characters who help him realize the answer. A playful story about kindness, acceptance, and openness that celebrates how we are not defined by one, but many wonderful characteristics.”
If anyone is interested in buying this book directly from me, you can proceed to one of my shops etsy andbig cartel. I have a very limited amount of books and they all will come signed by me (and can also include a special note if its a present).
Thank you for following along and supporting my projects :)
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Friends! While our brand new picturebook ‘My color is rainbow’, with Agnes Hsu is on its way, silkscreen prints are here as a special pre-launch treat! Five designs featuring selected spreads from the book, screen printed, signed and numbered by me. See all 5 designs in my shop oretsy shop if you prefer
Thank you for your support <3
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I did a little interview with an Italian interior and design blog Paz Garden. You can read it here :) First part is in Italian and then in English.
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My color is rainbow, a children’s book I’v been working on since August with Agnes Hsu from Hello Wonderful is now ready and sent to print! I’m a bit nervous since its the first time I’ve been working with pre press preparation and managing communication with the printing department.
But I’m also very excited and can’t wait to see the book. It’s the first book I illustrated that is going to be published in English (written by Agnes Hsu) so that’s very special too.
One more month before I can see it <3
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snaps of my work lately. Keep learning to silkscreen through screen printing #mycolorisrainbow book illustrations.
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Got my copy of Okido magazine and happy to see my Puddle mirror activity in it! Thank you OKIDO magazine and MAKI minimag :)
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Kaikin theatre play banners with my foxy design are ready. The play starts in the end of August in Kyoto, I wish I was there to see it.
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Yesterday I tried silkscreen printing for the first time and fell in love! I can’t wait to use this technique for my future projects. Here are some photos from a two days learning process at Grafishce werkplaats.
This is my first sketch of the artwork. I’m working on some mama/baby related project and wanted to print these elephants as part of it. I tried to keep the design as simple as possible since it was my first silkscreen printing experience ever.
Here is the final digital version, ready to be printed in black as separate layers (part of the preparation process I didn’t know about).
Choosing my colours
Screens!
this is how my design looked on the screen when I was printing the blue layer.
First layer!
And here it is ready! Thinking of sending some of them as presents to friends :)
Grafische werkplaats is closed for summer Holidays now, so I will have to wait a bit until my next screen printing session.
This June I visited Shibaura House in Tokyo and held a workshop for kids together with my friend and workshop partner Yumika Takeda.
During the workshop we encouraged kids to create a character and think about his/her story. Everyone has something that makes her/him different from others: Is it his colour? His shape? Is it his personality or his story?
Round and calm shapes and soft colours could help us building soft, kind or shy character and shapes like squares, triangles or zigzags and popping or deep dark colours can make a character look fast, brave, funny, loud or naughty or even evil. Of course there are exceptions because we don’t always look the same on the outside as we are inside.
We made lots of shapes in all kinds of colours and sizes and let kids play with them. All kids made at least one character and bigger kids even wrote down their stories. Here is one of the stories I remember:
Mr. Stocko is thinking of a watermelon and a pizza. There is a restaurant nearby but on the way to the restaurant he meets a snake. He doesn’t like reptiles! But he is very hungry too… (what an intriguing story with an open end..!)
Other stories were funny, weird and inventive too. Here are some more photos to prove it.
Thanks to the lovely people from Shibaura house for organising it!
My cover for the Tōkyōiter - an imaginary magazine about what makes Tokyo such fascinating place to live and experience. “We are sure that with this tribute to The New Yorker traditional cover art and The Parisianer, we can both celebrate illustration, cartooning, drawing, design, creativity… and Tokyo.”
The creatures on my cover are made up but they are inspired by Japanese Yokai and just like the rest of Tokyo, they’re taking a spontaneous nap on the train.
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Misogyny in Ukraine and Russia is a really big issue. Misogyny in the world is a really big issue. Through online initiative #IAmNotAfraidToSay #янебоюсьсказать women share their personal stories of sexual harassment, domestic violence and discrimination in order to spread the awareness. These stories are painful to read and even more painful to write about… But these women are not scared, they are not ashamed! I’m proud to know some of them personally! #standforyourrights #womensrights #янебоюсьсказати #noviolence #nomisogyny #equality #femalerights #powerfulwomen
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We love Japan and want to move there, but while we’re still working on this plan, we can at least enjoy holidays. Last month we spent in Tokyo, visiting Sam’s mum.
This time we didn’t do much traveling around Japan, we stayed in Tokyo for three weeks with some exceptions of visiting friends in Hayama and going on a little Weekend trip to Hakone for some nature, hikes and onsen experience.
Tokyo is such a vibrant and colourful city, it’s amazing how being so densely packed with buildings it manages to feel so green! Areas that are too small to plant a tree will most probably be filled with plants in the pots.
I also love how much is happening especially in the areas of arts and culture. After living in a quiet dutch city for the past 8 years I’ve definitely missed the energy of a big city.
In those three weeks we’ve ate a lot of amazing food, enjoyed time with family, saw quite a bit of art from both asian and european artists, did some collaborations and met new interesting people. I also did a kids’ workshop and visited a Japanese children’s publisher.
I wonder when are we going to be back?…
June 2016.
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Dear friends,
KAIKIN (lifting of the ban in Japanese) is a new theatre play about the times when Japan was a closed country, no people were allowed out or in… except for Dutch merchants.
A lot of you here are artists yourselves and you know how difficult it is to make art without support! So I invite you to help and support
this play, which is written and directed by Ellis van Maarseveen, a director, actress and drama teacher who left the Netherlands 5 years ago to live and work in Japan. Here is the link for a crowdfunding website and remember how every euro matters :) Thank you for helping Ellis and her team to bring this play to life! P.S. I made the foxy poster ;)
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Last Friday I had my first ever kids’ workshop held in Dutch language. I was very nervous that my level of Dutch might not be enough and I might have difficulties communicating with children (who don’t speak any english) but it all went pretty well! It felt very satisfying too, considering that I’ve been living in the Netherlands for the past 8 years.
I’ve also noticed that kids liked hearing my little excuses about not being fluent in their language and asking them to help me learn :)
I was doing this workshop together with Art-s-cool, a cultural organisation that brings together kids and parents to see and make art. This workshop was organised in partnership with Blended festival. Kids were making dioramas that later will be used for the festival’s posters.
Kids split up into groups designing different dioramas about music, dance, food, theatre and other topics they associated with festival.
It was lots of fun and I’m looking forward to the next workshop this month. Here are some of the pictures I took during the workshop.
last preparations! See you in Bologna! P.S. if anyone wants to meet up, let me know! #BCBF16
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Some snippets of the dummy book I’m preparing for Bologna Children’s Book Fair. I can’t wait to get some feedback from the publishers I’ll have appointments with at the fair. I also hope this will be the first step to getting it published. Fingers crossed!
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Rain Rain. Illustration for Maki minimag, the final version was changed quite a bit, but I like this one a lot!
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