Drawing Tiles

Looking for a way to exhibit and sell my journal drawings without cutting up those precious handbound books I came up with a good solution: to make high quality color prints and glue those onto thin MDF board. In this way they become into fine objects on their own which can be sold for affordable prices as they aren't originals. Ready to hang on the wall, they don't need framing. Most are about postcard size or slightly bigger.

Yoshizawa Crab

I managed to fold this crab (designed by origami grandmaster Akira Yoshizawa) with no more aid than a picture of the finished model and the basic crease pattern shown in Robert Lang's Origami Design Secrets. Unlike the traditional version of this crab which involves cutting the paper, this one is folded from a single uncut square of paper.

This is all that remained of my first (succesful) attempt after professional shredding by our cat Sushi. It actually took me quite a while to get the base together for a second time!

Stick huts

On a walk through the nearby woods I came across several stick huts. They remind me a bit of the work of Andy Goldsworthy. While I was drawing this one a little girl's voice suddenly rang through the trees, singing a verse from a nursery rhyme about Little Red Riding Hood: 'in the woods wild animals live'.

Happy New Year!

This Christmas card I drew and designed for De Groene Vingers; the landscaping company I work for as a gardener.