Making a new picturebook

Mieke Driessen and I started working on our second childrensbook about Stinkie. It's a story about animals wanting to celebrate christmas with a nice christmas tree. Here's a little sketch for on of the characters: Little Rat.

First picturebook will be in store this summer and is a story (written by Annemiek Pecht) about 'Sinterklaas', published by Clavis.

Ranunculus is in the air

When the flowerman sells Ranunculus (ranonkels): SPRING IS COMING CLOSER! 

Tea time collages

Tea time is still one of my favourite subjects: sharing stories, eating homemade cookies and spending qualitytime with friends. Here are a few collages I made, as a tribute to tea time.

Lamp of plastics, broken stuff, garbage & childhood memories

When I was in Paris 1,5 year ago I visited a gallery that showed art made of plastic disposed kitchen utensils. The idea stuck with me, and I've been collecting plastics and broken toys since then, hoping to make a curtain of plastics. After all this time collecting it's still not enough to make a curtain, but it was enough for two lamps:

A few weeks ago I made these 2 lamps. One for the bathroom, in reds, oranges and pinks that go wonderfull with the red walls and the Hedof screenprint.

The other one is a lot bigger and is one of the two lamps above the desk in my workroom. With stuff like: milkbottle caps, emptied desertcups, old watch bought in Barcelona, broken toys, smurfs, spongebob, badminton shuttle, plastic banana, soccer puppet, plastic deer, etc.

my workplace

My collection of colorful and folklore things, an a bit of selfmade stuff in between.

fresh clean blog from Image de Julie

Here is my official Image de Julie-blog. Fresh, clean and smells brandnew. Gotta love it.