schilderij voor Niranjan

Schilderij op verzoek, voor een jongetje op Manhattan. Hij is dol op pythons, adelaar, cheetahs, luipaarden en puma's. O ja, en mieren, mieren zijn grappig. Ook kan hij niet stoppen met lezen in zijn 'captain underpants' boek. Maar het aller aller liefste speelt hij in de sneeuw. Of nee...wacht....het aller aller liefste is zijn sneeuw luipaardje, die is zo zacht, hij kan echt niet zonder hem slapen.

Schilderij voor Ian

Schilderij voor een kinderkamer in India: 
Speciaal verzoek voor een jongetje met een mama uit India 
en een papa uit Canada. 
Hij is dol op zijn hele luie kat en natuurlijk op dino's!

contest: please vote me! :D

I am participating in a Dutch contest for birth announcements and I would looove to win. You can help me by voting for my birth announcement Eva on geboortekaartjes.nl. 

Thank you soo much! 

O...And please share with as many voters you can possibly think of...:)

For my Dutch audience: Ik doe mee met een geboortekaartjes wedstrijd en wil natuurlijk heel graag winnen. Je kunt me helpen door te stemmen op mijn geboortekaartje Eva bijvoorbeeld. Heel makkelijk via geboortekaartjes.nl

Heel erg bedankt!!! 

Spring Benefit Flap your feet

This week it's The Spring Benefit for the Metropolitan Montessori School. The theme is 'A Night of Wonderful Nonsense: Celebrating the Roaring '20s....'
Hope it will be a wonderful evening indeed. 

Here are some of the Images I created for the invitation and brochure.

Get into that Flapper-vibe and flap your feet!!

Illustration Friday: URBAN

Illustration Friday's theme this week is: URBAN.

Also this week Manhattan is covered with these true words:

"Raising a baby in an NYC apartment is like growing an oak tree in a thimble" 

An other brilliant ad for the Manhattan Mini Storage company.

As a Manhattan mom this hits home. You just gotta get real creative to find room to play. But there is, there really is!! I made a drawing to inspire all you kids out there!! Just get out there. Get yourself some chalk: there's enough room to draw! 

cloudgazing at the School of Visual Arts

Yesterday I had one of my last classes at the School of Visual Arts. One of things I am gonna miss when moving from New York this summer....That's for sure!

This is the piece I worked on in class yesterday. I had fun cloudgazing in watercolor last night. 

Today I will will make time to do some real cloudgazing in Central Park.

Illustration Friday: Yesterday

This weeks theme on the illustration Friday blog was Yesterday. Now I grew up living with someone with a (pretty serious) Beatles obsession. So there's no other thing I can possibly come up with when the word "yesterday" is mentioned.....

Okay, okay, and I'll admit I have somewhat of a (pretty serious) african animal obsession...

So I am afraid this little sketch was an accident just waiting to happen :D

The Hat-seller and the Monkeys

I created an activity book for a a theater company: Play Me A Story. They perform in New York with interactive musical stories for children. They created a wonderful playfull imaginative version of the old fable of 'the hat seller and the monkeys'. 

It was a lot of fun creating a coloring book for this musical performance. Hope lot's of children will enjoy their musical stories together with my drawings :D

Elephant for baby Emma

 Baby elephant for baby Emma <3

Mette! Geboorte schilderij

Geboorteschilderij en geboortekaartje.

Side stepping to graphic design...

....but still with elephants ;)

Made this invitation for a Bollywood style party at MMS school, together with graphic designer Jenni Meyer. It's fun to do something different for once. 

Happy New Year!!!

Happy New Year!!!

Wishing to all of you that 2013 will be the year you'll passionately dance where ever you please!!