This is a timelapse video of a grisaille (in black and white) underpainting in acrylics on a small canvas (the working title of this small painting is Prehistoric Monster Skull Collection). The rest of the painting will be finished in oil paint (but will take a lot longer than the underpainting).
I love timelapse video's and I really wanted to make one myself, and this is my very first try. I had already started the painting when I decided to make a timelapse of the rest of the underpainting. Soon I will add the final result here. If you don't like the video you certainly must like the music by my good friend Bastiaan de Boer 'Open The Bottle'. My new Youtube channel is here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFr7pZMAzs7ZGyiV6EMMyuQ On my channel you can find a playlist with video's about my work.
It's been a few months not posting here on my blog (except from the two previous blogposts I posted just before this one), and that is about the longest time I did not blog. But I have been busy, filling my sketchbooks with drawings for commissions, new paintings and actually starting to work on new paintings. On the photos you see an overview of sketching. Because most of the commissions are really seriously utterly secret I can't show much more now.
Furthermore, at the end of 2015, I started teaching art and design at the immensely cool Theaterschool in Rotterdam, and I am enjoying that very much! Such a nice school with all those talented students. http://theaterhavovwo.nl/
This blogpost was supposted to be posted somewhere in November 2015, but I actually forgot to post it. I recently made this small painting for my good friend Bastiaan de Boer. He is now starting a small collection of my work, and just commissioned a brand new one. A good picture will be made soon, and posted here and in the portfolio section of my website.
As we speak my "the rat we call mouse" sculpture entitled 'Afterwar Delight' is sitting on the rocks at the art and antiques store and gallery Diederiks Fine Art located in what must be one of the most attractive streets in the old city centre of Den Haag, 'Het Noordeinde' street.
One of my Fuping birds, also on display at Diederiks Fine Arts, is surrounded by Easter eggs and reclining at a 19th century sofa. www.diederiksfineart.com
Circus around Bosch A small solo in Schijndel (As part of the Hieronymus Bosch year) I exhibit paintings, drawings and ceramics January 9 until March 5, 2016 KEG expo Cultureel Centrum 't Spectrum Steeg 9 5482 WN Schijndel
At Zuliani's, no not an Italian restaurant just around the corner, but the art and terrazzo makers who are renovating the sculpture 'Ode aan Marten Toonder' (Ode to Marten Toonder). I made this sculpture with my art collective De Artoonisten (Hans van Bentem, Luuk Bode and DJ Chantelle aka Boris van Berkum and myself) in 2002. Because of rigorousadjustments tothe square, like the recently built imposing 'Markthal', the city had to move the sculpture a few meters from the original location. And with relocating the sculpture it had to be stored away for one year. Luuk Bode and I are actually helping Zuliani a bit with adding some new paint on the top part of the sculpture, and that starts with removing the old paint. The sculpture will be placed at the new location in Februari 2016. More information: http://www.vanderkrogt.net/standbeelden/object.php?record=ZH58ad
For the promotion of the art historian Andréa A. Kroon I made a box based on historical Japanese lacquer boxes with Masonic symbols.
Andréa A. Kroon was promoted on the thesis 'Masonic networks, material culture & international trade. The participation of Dutch freemasons in the cultural & commercial exchange with Southeast Asia, 1735-1853'.
This is the formal title of the book. This describes in some 900 pages, the creation of Masonic lodges along the trade route to India, Ceylon, Dutch East Indies, Japan and China. These lodges had many VOC personnel and later traders as members. They have created a special material culture of lodge buildings on Java to Japanese lacquer with Masonic symbols.
On the box I painted Masonic symbols, flowers and an owl with a jabot, in reference to the professorship.
The box contains a ceramic Dodo sculpture (Andréa is a huge Dodo fan) and a porcelain bowl, on which I painted Masonic symbols and "Chinese clouds".
More information about the work of art historian Andréa A. Kroon you can find here:
