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Sneak peek: exuberant Balmain

|One of my guilty pleasures is ordering each year the H&M designer collection. Just recently I watched the entirely new H&M collection by the young creative director Olivier

A benevolent universe – Sánchez

|Great colors by an artist who designed prints for the fashion industry for 18 years before setting up her own studio and start with free work because “my heart

Teach yourself new things – each day

|Some great creative professionals teach their skills in approximately one hour online classes in writing, music, app design, drawing and even business. I did these blind drawings of

Visual echos

|Richter did these ink drawings in the autumn of 2008. He is rarely satisfied with his own initial gestures, and as a rule starts a lengthy process

DIEP flap in Rorschach

|The last two weeks I’m focused on the process of friend’s breast surgery. My original painting (left) reflected the bloody part of the surgery (created after I saw

Woven Rorschach – Richter

|Gerhard Richter in his XXXL light, white atelier reinvented himself by using a computer for multiplying 4-times his Abstract Painting ‘724-4’ into woven Rorschach-compositions (his digital Paul Smith-like Strip paintings from 2012 originate from the

Oxygen Blues

|Roses are red. Violets are blue. I came here for the boobs. And so did you. A dear friend just had a serious breast operation. As

Happiest period of my life – Picasso

|Picasso’s dream was that anyone could own one of his works. This summer, his grandchild Marina, will sell 126 pieces of Picasso’s ceramics. She owns more than 10,000 of

Mr. Smiley

|A disastrous, very expensive high-speed railway (with unsafe trains) was initiated in 1999 by former Minister of Infrastructure and Transportation Netelenbos and former Supervisory Board Chairman at Dutch

Playing with fire – Miró

|For a series of late works, called ‘burnt and lacerated canvases’ from 1973, Joan Miró made notes to himself with comments like ‘improvise with rage’. He loved to work with

Mr. Klaver (Groen Links)

|Jesse Klaver (Dutch for clover) is the new 29 year young political party leader of the Dutch Green Left party, a rather small anti-capitalist, eco-socialist group. His

Right wing wins

|Since people’s stress levels lower with 60% after watching a real ‘Jack the Dripper’(Jackson Pollock), I thought that might be an appropriate concept for todays illustration. Conservative Prime

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