My portfolio website

I've been busy working on my portfolio website. It's finally done! Of course I'll refresh it from time to time, as soon as I have documented new work.

If you're interested in checking it out, you can find it here.

From now on the blog 'my absent mind' will mostly show sketches, the process and expos. 

My absent mind

Workshop screen printing

Last week I did a two-day workshop screen printing at the Amsterdam Grafisch Atelier. My intension was to learn the process so that I can screen print my own illustrations in the future. The workflow is pretty technical - which I'm not - and requires quite some patience - which I have none. It was scary but in the end pretty awesome to do something out of my comfort zone. I'm very enthusiastic about it and will definitely try it again! 

I decided to use a few of my illustrations to get to know the technique a little better. I used several backgrounds, the green one is a painting I scanned and changed into black and white bitmap.

I made the red and blue background during the workshop; by tearing pieces of paper and exposing that onto the mesh.

picking a mesh

Preparing the mesh with a photosensitive layer.

mixing the ink

Printing!

Cleaning and stripping the mesh. 

Getting my hands and clothes dirty.

Some of the prints I made.

For sale: My doodles in print

Have you ever checked out My absent mind? That's where I post my doodles, ink on paper drawings of patterns. I decided to make a selection of the ones I like the best and had them printed on high quality thick paper. I sell these prints, so do click on the link to check it out!

Holiday greetings!

My personal wish for you:

And for all the vintage lovers one more:

999th post giveaway - the results

First of all I want to thank everyone who commented on my post. It was so wonderful to see multiple retweets and even a few mentions on blogs and websites. Heartwarming! 

I must admit I was a bit scared only a few people would leave a comment. I'm so happy to realise more than a few did so!

Finally, the results. I gave everyone a number, depending on the gift they were aiming for. I used the random generator to pick a number in each category:

7 entries for the Djeco stickers and Hiskia won! Congrats!

7 entries for the vintage memory game as well, Maike won! Congrats!

15 entries for the collected doodle print. Aukje won, congrats!

And finally, the black and white doodle was the most popular one. (Which I actually didn't expect)

20 entries and Judy won!

I know all of you through Twitter, so I'll send you a message and ask for your addresses.

Thanks again, everyone, for joining in and spreading the news, hope you enjoy the next 999 posts. Hope to see you back here at Turning Pages or at My absent mind once in a while! 

PS: unfortunately nobody entered the competition for the birthday calender so I'll save that one for another time.

Post #999 - Giveaway!

After over two years of blogging I've reached my 999th post! Yay!

So I think it's about time I share some goodies with you. I've put a lot of thought into what I should give away. I've decided upon these items:

A Dutch memory game, vintage of course

Collected doodles, an A4 print. My own work (see my other blog)

Djeco stickers by Benjamin Chaud

Doodle, A4 print, my own work (see my other blog)

Birthday calender, the months are in Dutch... my own work

If you would like a chance to win one of these items:

1)  Leave me a comment below, telling me which item you would like to win (make sure to leave me an email address). 

I'd love you even more if you'd start following this blog or my other blog officially ;-))

2)  Spread the news via twitter, facebook or any other means and you will get two chances to win (let me know if you do).

This giveaway runs until Wednesday 13th of December at 8 pm, CET
I will draw the winners randomly and try and announce the outcome the same evening. Needless to say, 5 items, so 5 people can win!

Good luck!