imaginary family

music video, music by Joanna Isselé

workshop sint niklaas

a few weeks ago, i was a teacher at a workshop in Sint niklaas. the animated video's made at the workshop will be shown at 'coup de ville', an art exhibit in somewhere in sint niklaas

this is a video I absolutely wanted to post. usually all teenagers in workshops make the same kind of film. I never saw a student make something like this, though.
notice it is also the first time this girl, Louise, did animation.

paul delaroche

the answer to years of googling by martha

studies for my new shortfilm 'norman'

brechtjan verschuere

a friend of mine, hopefully the VAF will grant me the money to make the film, he will be the backgroundartist.


"zijn werk draait rond fragiliteit. brechtjan is geniaal in de 'vorm' hij kan met hele rake materialen en vormen, met objecten omgaan, en zo enorm mooie broze composities neerpennen.
brechtjan die is ergens het vreemde midden tussen een verzamelaar, een designer en een schilder"

i have to, i really do

recently I gave a lecture about the relationship between art and cinema. between painting and cinema. there wasn't really a huge turn-up, unfortunatly, but i would advice everyone to go buy or rent the Peter Greenaway documentairy 'rembrandt, j'accuse'
He analizes 'de nachtwacht' by rembrandt meticously.
but that's not what is interesting,
what's interesting is the subtext.

cinema is capable of MORE,
and the vague notions can be spotted by the attentfull observer.

as a treat,
and a compulsion,
i'll post 'de nachtwacht'

it's only natural I would post it someday.

great news

since about a week or so,
i'm a part of the website 'urban sketchers"
i'm actually really proud of that, i've been following the site for a while now.

http://www.urbansketchers.com/2009/06/meet-correspondents-ghent-belgium-robbe.html

books II

books

art can sometimes be found in unusual places.
this week, the library in a local town near me, was having a stock-sale.
i saw it as a chance to buy some books i would never buy for high price, books i would nevertheless love to own and read.
i ended up leaving there with a pile of over 50 books. 10 were for reading, the rest i bought because of their hugely attractive book covers, their illustrations.

i'm thinking about, contemplating still, but i suppose i'll start working with these old covers.

the bible for painters

really!
i found it, oddly, on a second hand market. it was just lying there. I have been looking for something like it for YEARS!
carefully and professionally the writer, gino piva, has writen everything technical about painting in it. you might know, but painting is somewhat of a lost art. in art-school, they don't teach 'technique" anymore. it's all about the artistical prestation. I have come to a point in my paintings where I believe, if I can advance my technical skills, the creative story will enhance.

so, if it interests you as well, ask about this book. look it up. my version is translated from italian, so it might have been translated in dozens of other languages.
or, come to me. I'll become your teacher

Johann Baptist Reiter

a contribution by luc degryse