Cemetery Brussels/Belgium

In this old cemetery, most gravestones date from the 19th century. As you wander narrow paths, some stones and decorations are broken, and some texts are no longer readable. Others...

Hergé museum in Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium)

Hergé is the comic strip artist behind the famous Tintin and the funny Quick and Flupke. In Louvain-la-Neuve in the French part of Belgium, there is a museum dedicated to his...

Permeke museum & Brugge

Constant Permeke (Antwerpen, 31 July 1886 – Oostende, 4 January 1952) was a Belgian expressionist painter and sculptor. He is considered a leading figure of Flemish* expressionism, often painting fishermen...

My favorite sketching materials

I'm always excited to explore different materials. From acrylics to printmaking, from pencils to digital brushes. I love it all and even when something isn't 100% for me, I'll never...

January, winter wonderland

It's been years since early winter was this cold and this beautiful. Postcard beautiful I'd say! There isn't much wind so the snowflakes have been balancing on the trees for weeks,...

Endangered! Sketchbook challenge week 2

It's week 2 of the #septembersketchendangered (you can check the hashtag on Insta to see more participants) with TJ Marston and this week we visited the most Northern and Southern...

The Vansbro nightswim was canceled

...So I let some inks and paint swim on my paper instead. I made a few different versions, exploring materials, and the translation of the sensation of swimming. Hopefully next year...

Beachcombing in Normandy

Perhaps you remember our trip to the Jurassic coast in England last year to go fossil hunting. This year we visited Normandy in France, and while the focus was mostly...

Monet’s house and garden in Giverny (France)

For one of us, Normandy was all about D-day and war monuments, for me, it was the cradle of 19th-century Impressionism (and fossils but that's a whole other story). Impressionism is...

Small pleasures, Belgium edition

Sometimes when you've been longing for something, it becomes almost a myth in itself, something much bigger and better than reality. But that hasn't been the case with the desire...