I finished my mural today… It’s a commission by “Transform-Art”, a local initiative to enhance dull utility cabins with streetart, inspired by things that happened in the vicinity. The goal was to depict Afsnee & Sint-Denijs-Westrem, with all the points of interest, including all street-art sites.
I went for a fantasy vibe and choose to depict all involved street-art in miniature. see if you can find them :-). Getting rid of the E40, made a lot of room, just like it would in real life (albeit slightly less costly).
In 2021 I developed a card game to play with colleagues. After almost 2 years into the pandemic, we barely knew each other. There were also a lot of new faces in the crowd. This game was a nice way to mingle during the first staff party in ages.
It’s a combination of the classic Quartets and Technical Quartets* with some new “Rules of Engagement” and a third engagement option called “climate bombs”. Fun guaranteed!
* The internet has yet to learn what a Technical Quartets is. On the cards there are properties about the subject. Example: “My -person- has the most kids, how much has yours?”Player with the most kids wins both cards.
Luckily I have a superb colleague who’s a designer and she spent a LOT of evenings making these cards. I had another team who pressured colleagues for intimate information that we could put on their cards. I illustrated the “bomb” cards myself.
One of the things they had to do, was to choose a favourite food. I put it on the card in guesstimated (kilo)calories. By the time we played the game, everybody had forgotten what they had chosen. That wasn’t a good design choice, but… the game was a smashing hit! 🙂
The ending of 2020 was a weird one, for a myriad of reasons. I made some digital cards and in the end my printer died while gorging on heavy paper, so I just posted them on Meta.
Somewhere in November 2014 I decided to make a whole lot of Christmas cards for friends/family. They were actually based on the person(s) they were meant for.
It was also the first time I used “PEEN” as my signature. I will elaborate on the many, many meanings of Peen in another post.
All cards were drawn on 12*12cm cheap blank cards. After a while I came to understand what worked, and what not. One day I will redo the best of them.
In the middle of the pandemic, school year 2020-2021, I took a drawing class. It was fun. We were even able to draw a few times without masks. Apparently in “normal” times, such a class is even móre fun, with cookies and a happy artist-y vibe. Now even the model had to wear a mask (but nothing else).
I’m really not very good at getting the ratios right. Luckily it were mostly very short poses, matching my attention span. The first one is my favourite, with Inez holding a little Inez statue from another class :-).
