As you can see in these pictures our beginners who never airbrushed before and came here to spend quality time with each other and of course learn a thing or two, made a lot of fun and good work too.

It was nice having you guys!

Marissa

It was a family gathering with a father and his 2 children, and a talented, young author who’s first book can be found here:

http://www.boekscout.nl/html/boek.asp?id=403

Some info about the book (in Dutch):

Titel: Brans Verhaal
Auteur: Lotte Wildiers

ISBN: 978-90-8834-431-2

Korte inhoud:
Bran trekt de wijde wildernis in, op zoek naar alles en niets. Op een wonderlijke reis door de wereld leert hij mensen kennen, leert hij zich redden in vreemde situaties en uiteindelijk leert hij zelfs houden van zijn lieve Selene. Maar met Selene komt er ook een hoop spanning en gevaar in zijn leven. Brans leven draait niet meer enkel om zichzelf, maar ook om zijn Selene, hun kleine gezin en hun vrienden.
Dit boek vertelt het verhaal van de kleine gebeurtenissen die je leven zo heerlijk maken. Maar tegelijk gaat het ook over grotere thema’s als liefde, racisme, haat en macht. Brans Verhaal is een zoektocht naar kleine dingen, waar je steeds op grotere dingen stuit en uiteindelijk beseft dat alles met elkaar verweven is…

Time to post some more of our students artwork, they go so fast, we can’t keep up!

The guitar is made by Erik, lovely isn’t it? I bet the owner will steal the show on stage.

The portrait is a self-portrait of Petra, when she was a little girl, well done Petra.

Marissa

Ever since we use a blog, we also receive huge amounts of spam via the comments ‘doorway’ where robots try to sneak in and post rubbish. We catch all all that spam in a big, nasty net where we get rid of it in the most horrible way that you can imagine.

It can happen that I erase a legitimate comment. If or when this happens, then I apologize from beforehand. You will notice this if your comment doesn’t show up after, say, 24 hours. If this ever happens to you, feel free to drop me a note and I will ‘unblock’ you immediately.

The spam-catcher team leader, a.k.a Edzilla

I am going through all our old files (quite a task) in order to prepare our new digital archiving system. Yesterday I found this image below, which is an old cover design of the magazine Airbrush Art + Action which later changed it’s name to Art Scene International. This was, in fact, one of those first rebranded issues.

I founded that magazine and headed it as Editorial Director for 10 years (give or take a few months), until I decided to leave: my publisher was forcing me to lower my standards which was not something that I was willing to do. One of my editors took over the wheel for a few years but recently the magazine closed down for good.

The interesting thing about this cover is that – personally, I think it was one of our better ones. However, last minute it was stopped by my publisher, something that had never happened before. Most of the time he was not messing with the content but this time he did. It was the start of a very bad habit that eventually justified my decision to leave the publishing house a few months later.

Later I found out why my publisher pulled the cover and had it replaced by a ‘not so good’ version (in my opinion). His explanation: “We don’t put people on our covers, we are an Art magazine. We put art on our covers”.

That was the most absurd statement that I ever heard.

Back then I knew Marissa as a rapidly rising star, and this was also her very first, well deserved article. The photograph on this cover version which never made it to press made me smile, because not only does it depict her artwork but also her sparkling personality. Genuine human emotions often make great covers.

Two years later I married her. She still has the same sparkling personality today as I saw it on that (unpublished) cover photograph back then.

Eddy

Hi all,

A new web shop will be custom made for this website, but for now…
I just made a cool webshop on Fine art America. Check it out!

Have fun!

Marissa