counting the days till christmas

One more calendar and the last one that I will present this year. This one is starting 1st of december allready. One page to tear of every day, each designed by different illustrators from Weimar in an edition of 150 pieces for our friends.

Cover / Ina Hattenhauer and Inside / Stefanie Jeschke, Anne Baier, Lydia Kessner, Olivia Vieweg, Ina Hattenhauer, Elke Will, Rosa Linke and last but not least Andreas Heintzel, Friedrich Althausen and Alexander von Knorre.

PS: A drawing from our former teacher Jutta Bauer, watching our calendar.

happy 2010! week by week.

Tschau-Tschüssi in Leipzig made this cute calendar, where I did drawings for the month april. More information and a possibility to order: click here.

All the Participants:
mawil (Januar) / Phillip Janta (Februar) / Alive (März) / Rosa Linke (April) / Ralph Niese (Mai) / Katja Schwalenberg (Juni) / marga.marina (Juli) / Klub7 (August) / Alinea (September) / Iska Kaek (Oktober) / Gregor Hinz (November) / Anke Weckmann (Dezember)

happy 2010! day by day.

Our calendar from ILLUMAT the Illustrationmachine is out since a while allready - I just forgot to post it.
365 drawings for the whole year! Available via the publisher Inkognito in Berlin. Click here to see more!

over the hill, into the castle and back in history / 1

Yesterday I went to the museum "Schloss Tenneberg" with a collection of dolls in Waltershausen. That made me think about the connection of dolls and illustration. Much more as toys dolls are images of the "ideal child" in different times and societies and a view on the it´s world - and cultural history of childhood. You can see some examples in the pictures below....

over the hill, into the castle and back in history / 2

That depiction of childhood is one point - the other is the similarity between develloping a character for a children book. The face, the figure, the personality - and the animation, the moves of the body parts are alike.

I like the old dolls and their parts as well for their strange asthetic that influence my work as well. And I was surprised that I was really not amazed by my own childhoods dolls. The "ideal child" - what is it today and for tomorrow?

on stage / the show

The "Kurztheaterspektakel" - short theatre festival took place in the "Kulturbahnhof - an old railwaystation in Jena and was a an inspiring event. The huge pictures infront of the people faces are the masks I made for the piece "Melancholie".

*Danke an Andreas für die Fotos.

home sweet home / on stage

thursday, friday and saturday there is a short theater festival in jena, close to my hometown weimar.
i did masks as a stage design for "melancholie ist kein ein-euro-job" by tommy neuwirth. if you are close - come!
here is the program:

belgium 12 / goodbye.

belgium 11 / ready to leave

After the three weeks residency in the in the printing studio of the Frans-Masereel-Centrum I collected and numbered my work - I am leaving perfectly happy. The bus comes late, but the train too; so everything is allright. Sarah and Paul that where here last week are leaving too.

A: Series about construction, trying to make prints there the layers more fit in each other as normally in silkscreen but not normal for my :-) I always like to make quiete loose compositions still "working" the picture out while printing. As a result I get pictures where I like the difference from one to the next, but there none is the same as well.

B: Illustrations for a text by Elias Canetti. It is about women selling bread on the market in Marocco, written in 1958. I made a leporello with the women on the street and single prints, which i actually like the best.

belgium 10 / the letterpress

The before last day of my stay in the artist residency I got very atracted by the letterpress with the wooden letters. A treasure! For me it is not so much about the print itself, but forming sentences - catching something that got stuck in your head, putting the words together from the letter case and then trying to fix them for printing. Thats a good exercise and experiment that I would like to continue.

belgium 9 / gent

A colourfull weekend in Gent! Much more day- than nightlife this time ... and a good chance to meet friends from my exchange in Gent, Anton and Céline again.
The exhibition photos are from the flemish photographer Stephan Vanfleteren with portraits of "Bekende Vlamingen" in the Wintercircus Mahy.

belgium 8 / something new is coming up

belgium 7 / raindrops keep falling on my head

and Catriona, Satoshi, Tim and Stefan left as well . . ... .

belgium 6 / birthday print

on friday the 23rd. instead of cake and candels, wich would have been to many anyway ...

belgium 5 / leftovers

Amber and Katie left. This is a beautifull prearrangement from one of Amber's prints:

belgium 4 / new prints

Some smaller prints from the new series. The prints are combinations of diverse elements.
I really like to work with the transperency of the colours and i am still looking for a title for the series ...