Want some good news?? Our (Tim the author and me making the illustrations..) book #adreadfuletale part 1 has been selected as part of the beautiful catalog and Dutch biannual travelling exhibition of 50 best small books: 'Mooi Marginaal'. Read the lovely jury comments, Murks and Willem are honoured indeed, and their respect for their creators is growing ;-) Even though they are set to stumble and splutter along in part two and three, not being happy at all....
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This is my favorite illustration from our book. It is scary, I don't usually achieve a scary effect. And is has a sort of 30ties dark color wood cut feel to it. An effect which I was aiming for at the start of this project, even though I make these illustrations digitally on the screen of my phone. All that and pink! I used to be vary wary, even scared of using pink. You know, girlish and so on. But using it in tis sketch got me over and now I really have entered the brave country of daring to use pink - it's a good place to be.
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The book is indeed only part one. Online (#adreadfultale on instagram) we are running this story in the first place and now up to episode 42 I believe. And even publishing part two is now really almost finished. It will return from the printer really soon. Covers and back are printed (see the teaser pic in the left-down corner below...), just the binding left to do.
One thing I would like to share about the illustrations is the interior as shown below, who wouldn't want that as her or his students room? I made it however thinking of the interiors painted by Matisse, he remains such a great source of inspiration to so many....