Parts of illustrations and scrap paper often tell their own story on my table.
thrift store treasures
A nice visit to the growing and blooming botanical garden in Ghent.
This is the very last Herbarium zine: number 50/50 of the edition.So be quick if you want your copy…
SOLD OUT!
more cookies, buttonholes and spiders…
And, some more self-promotion:
These are the postcards currently available in my shop.
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I did a photoshoot with my postcards. It was quite fun to think about how I wanted to present them. I made small still lifes with the cards and a few props, for each card its own little world. In this post some results, but you can see more in the shop or at my facebook page.
Last weekend I found a treasure on a book market: Viaje por España by Baron Charles Davillier and, more important, illustrated by Gustave Doré. I can’t read the book, because it’s written in Spanish, but it’s beautiful to watch, to stroke, to cherish. The pages are printed on bible paper, so very thin and delicate. Some of the illustrations cover a folded page, it feels very special to open them and explore the world of Doré.
There were more treasures on the market, I got very inspired by all the old, handprinted books. I miss that kind of aesthetics in the printed matter of today…
Woodcut-in-progress: ‘cutting’ with knife, gouge, hammer and nails…
So curious about the result in print!
