In other news

The Terrible Yellow Eyes exhibition at Gallery nucleus is apparently quite a succes. So If you're in the Los Angeles area and haven't seen it, you absolutely must. And If you have 350 dollars to spare, you can still buy my drawing.
Cory Godby did a write up of his adventures visiting the exhibition, you can read about it and see pictures of what must've been a most excellent evening on his blog: http://lightnightrains.blogspot.com/2009/09/terrible-yellow-eyes-show-california.html
(His blog is worth a visit anyway, as he's a great artist and he always has something interesting to say about his process).

Terrible Yellow Eyes - III

Hurray!
Cory the enterprising founder of the Terrible Yellow Eyes blog has managed to arrange an exhibition at Gallery Nucleus in California. They're going to be showing a selection of work from the site and mine is among it.
Have a look here: http://www.gallerynucleus.com/gallery/exhibition/214
(the picture above is by Cory, go visit him at www.corygodbey.com)

And now, so that this isn't too dry a post, here's the new trailer for Where The Wild Things Are.

Oh my!

A while ago I made a drawing inspired by Maurice Sendak's beloved book Where the Wild Things are. That was for the blog Terrible Yellow Eyes. And last week I was inspired to do another. I'd been working on drawings on the computer for days and wanted to take a break and just put some pencil on paper.

Now as you may be aware of Spike Jonze, the director of the brilliant Being John Malkovich, is set to outdo himself with a movie based on the book. As a very wonderful promotion tool he started a blog called We Love You So. It is of course about all things Sendak, but also tons of other interesting stuff. I every now and then take a look there and today I was very much surprised to find my drawing at the top of the page.



I'm very thankful of course, it's not something you expect. You can see it for yourself here: weloveyouso.com

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.