multi-media

BG 320 – Me, 42 years ago

Watercolor portrait, after a painting of me at the age of 19.


Portret met aquarelverf, kleurpotlood en zwarte stift.
Naar een foto van mij toen ik 19 was.

Portrait with watercolor paint, colored pencil and black marker.
After a photo of me when I was 19.

BG 249 – Verwrongen / Distorted 3

Verwrongen, Distorted, multi-media wall art, 3/3.


Mixed-media kunst (hout, kippengaas, papier-maché en metaalverf).
Afmetingen 60 x 60 cm. Dit is de derde in een serie van drie.

Mixed-media art (wood, chicken wire, paper mache and metallic paint).
Size 60 x 60 cm. This is the third in a series of three.

BG 245 – Verwrongen / Distorted 2

Verwrongen, Distorted, multi-media wall art, 2/3.


Mixed-media kunst (hout, kippengaas, papier-maché en metaalverf).
Afmetingen 60 x 60 cm. Dit is de tweede in een serie van drie.

Mixed-media art (wood, chicken wire, paper mache and metallic paint).
Size 60 x 60 cm. This is the second in a series of three.

BG 242 – Busy in my studio

Started with a sheet of wood. A square piece of birch plywood, with more than three layers. I had a number of them cut to size, 60 by 60 cm. Transported by bike, of course. I didn’t have a car back then. Before I started using them, I sanded the edges with sandpaper around a block of cork.

Then the chicken wire. Chicken wire on a roll. A piece unrolled, cut off and deformed with work gloves on – because lessons learned from deep scratches from a previous time. Folded, bent, fought with. Finally overcome, satisfied. About how it fit, on the wood.

The wire stapled. In many places. The stapler, of course, faltered from time to time. And a single staple was crooked. Had to go and find a pair of pliers to pull the damn thing out again. Grumble, grumble. Finally gave them all a convincing whack with a hammer.

Then cut strips of newspaper. Newsprint, unlike when I was younger, has not been easy to find …

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BG 241 – Verwrongen / Distorted 1

Verwrongen, Distorted, multi-media wall art, 1/3.


Mixed-media kunst (hout, kippengaas, papier-maché en metaalverf).
Afmetingen 60 x 60 cm. Dit is de eerste in een serie van drie.

Mixed-media art (wood, chicken wire, paper mache and metallic paint).
Size 60 x 60 cm. This is the first in a series of three.