Hi all
Ok, I was drawing a bit again. I got kind of out of drawing realisticaly, so I tried it the old way, with reference lines. I took one of my favourite pictures where you can see me in the backround and then Szilvi, Zsófi and Robi (from left to right). Robi took it during the Franz Ferdinand concert during Rockafiel in Luxembourg in 2006. We had a really great time ther and I think you can see that on our faces :-D
Following the main "lines" in the picture, I projected it onto a blanc paper with pencil.

I then wanted to see what it would look like in colour and made a photocopy and coloured it with felt tips. This is the result:


Pretty crude but it's got a certain charm. Anyways, it's a work in progress and soon I will post the final one...if only I knew what to do with it...acrylic, oil or tempera...???

Rékának (for Réka)

Zsófi's 9 year old niece from Budapest, Hungary, sent us a really cute letter and so we wanted to reply in the same way. Zsófi wrote a long letter in pink and I decorated the envelope. Then I made her a little drawing of a Caracal (a desert Lynx) It's been ages since I've done any pencil drawing but I think it turned out allright. Here you can see it:

I know, the quality of the photo is not great but the scanner doesn't want to work...

In November, one of Zsófi's colleagues, Anne Brown, asked me to paint something on her eldest doughter's (Enya's) wall. We met a few time to discuss this. It was supposed to be a christmas surprise for Enya as she was studying in Britain and would come back to Spain for Christmas. Anne was refurbishing the room and wanted the main subject to be the sea. We went from underwater coral reef to boats on the sea, tropical island, and many other things including some posing surfers until we decided on striped beach huts with a surfboard. This was in memory of the belgian beaches where they spent their summers while living in Brussels. It turned out to become something rather geometrical, which I'm not so used to do, but in the end it got good and I introduced an organic shaped hibiscus on the surfboard to break the rigidness of the rest. While painting, their cat cept me company, which was nice. I tried to take some pictures which was quite hard as the room is so small:



The funny thing is that Zsófi, a month or so later went for a walk along EL Campello beach and saw the exact same huts!

Jungle Race

After seeing the Pulpo on my wall, my landlords asked me to paint something on the wall of their baby teins's playroom wall. I showed them some sketches and they chose elements from some which I then recombined. This was my first payed asignement. It was very motivating making something for people that were not close friends or family, even though they are a really nice couple. They let me loads of creative freedom. To satisfy them, I wanted to get something coulourful, original and something they won't get bored of after a short time.
Her you can see the creation in process:

1st wallpainting

This is my very first wallpaint. I did it at my parents place after they split up. My dad left and my mum then wanted the corridor full of colours because my dad always wanted to have it white. Now, 4 years later, they are back together and my dad really likes the paintings too. I only have a photo of one picture. In march, when I go to Luxembourg for a weekend, I will take pictures of the other ones.
My mom gave me some money to buy paint, which I did and I then started painting without sketches or idea. This is the result and I think it could have been way worse. At least it is coulourful :-)

Pulpo

Hi
I want to show you now how I made my pulpo painting on my wall at home:

Starting with a glass of tinto

Zsófi helped me a bit too

It turned out to be the perfect background for a great halloween party :-)

Beatrice

For my girlfriend's colleague, Beatrice, I made a portrait of her (2007) I think she looks quite alike...