Boekie Boekie and other projects

So I've been pretty busy lately, working on a new book for Pica which is finished now, after much scratching of the head and going back and doing things over. More on that will follow when the book will be published, so not for a while.
Meanwhile here are some details of my illustrations for the next Boekie boekie, which I think will come out in the 'kinderboekenweek'.
Also out by then will be a children's poetry anthology, with poems by a great number of Dutch poets and writers and illustrations by a host of illustrators (does anyone know an appropriate collective noun for illustrators? A blotting perhaps, or a scrawl?) All edited by the venerable Ted van Lieshout. I made three illustrations for it, so those will be uploaded at some point as well.

Terrible Yellow Eyes

Having stayed in the United States for rather a long while, I'm now back in the Netherlands. I had a roaringly good time, and quite a busy one too. In fact things can now be called frantic, but that's beside the point.
Mainly I wanted you all to know that you should go to Terribleyelloweyes.com, a wonderful blog devoted to Maurice Sendak's amazing book Where the Wild Things are (or Max en de Maximonsters for those who know the book by its Dutch title). The talented Cory Godbey has been putting together a collection of pieces from illustrators all inspired by the book, and he was kind enough to let me contribute. It's an amazing site, with work by some very wonderful illustrators.

Some details.




Another idea I had.

The Goat boy is kind of my favourite.


These guys don't really have to do anything with this, but I had fun doodling them.

Where man has Oregone before

Painted Hills, originally uploaded by groene_inkt.

I'm in Oregon at the moment, have been for three weeks actually, and will be for another three. Things are grand, I'm very busy with a new book for Pica (and there's no end in sight in terms of illustratin').
The weekends are free for traveling though, two weeks ago we went to the desert and saw the painted hills.
Go to the Flickr for more pictures.

(and from the title of this post I guess you can deduce what film I saw last)

Moss man

P1070259, originally uploaded by groene_inkt.

This almost looks like something I would draw.

Boekie Boekie - Morning walk

My illustration for the new Boekie boekie magazine. My inspiration for this one was Japanese illustrator Tadahiro Uesugi, who is simply brilliant. (I should be ashamed for even mentioning his name)