Poste Aérienne at MEAKUSMA

live drawing event with Boris Servais and Adrian Wylezol at invitation of Mea Kusma, Alter Schlachthof, Eupen (BE)

It was a cool experience to see our small-size ink, pen and crayon drawings projected on this impressive big wall, with the sounds of Sohrab, Innercity and Midnight Opera.

We were hooked very quickly, we both have forgotten time and
we're pretty sure that we'll do events like this again.

more images here

Big thanks to Christophe and Michael from Mea Kusma,

the artists and everybody else - it was great!

Boris · Adrian

A Growing Mountain Of... Stuff.

I´ve been doing a lot of editorial work in the past

weeks. Above is a piece for the business section of

DIE ZEIT, on the topic of whether or not we

need the old economist ideas.

Here´s one from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung

about how a lot of people can have very risky hobbies yet tend

to be very cautious when it comes to planning their

finances.

And to balance things out a little:

Some skeletons! I hope I will be able to do more personal

work in the future again, but I also really enjoy

doing editorial illustration.

Cheers,

Frederik

illu12 ⋄ Illustratoren Festival

Welcome to the biggest rhineland festival of illustration to date!!


illu12 takes place in Cologne the coming weekend, from 20th-22nd of April in DQE. 43 exhibitors from Cologne and NRW show their work and reveal details of their creative process. Wether you're illustrator, art lover or creative professional, make sure to drop by, it's a fine opportunity to meet artists and chat about their work.

Boris Servais talks about the phenomenon of "alternative illustration" on Saturday, 16h. The example of three contemporary artists, Henrik Drescher, Benoît Jacques and Barron Storey, offers insights in their unique working techniques in the scene of independent illustration.

The programm of events includes workshops, discussion forums and live drawing. One of the contributors for our coming Mikrokosmos Edition, Lars Henkel, designed the key-visual for the festival, an hommage to Maurice Sendaks Where the Wild Things are.

Home Sweet Home

The Atelierhaus Salzamt Linz called to design a postcard according to the topic "Home Sweet Home" for the NEXTCOMIC-Festival 2012. Accepted techniques were painting, drawing, comics, illustration and collage. All submitted postcards take part in the exhibition "Home Sweet Home - drawing, houses and postcards" in the Atelierhaus Salzamt from March 15th till April 30th 2012.

One hundred international motives are shown in a small full color catalogue.

Greets, c.pom

Collage - Sites of Crime

There are two sites of crime with different use of physical strength, that are bound to occur in format vary.

While the first, C.Pom still acts as a "deskperson", Ib Jorn deals with "Wrestling-Power" since a few months. He fights a glorious battle of materials with great show of strength!

Greets PA

Skueruem

Pacifist Skyrim -

contribution to the very nice Skueruem blog initiated

by Thomas Wellmann.

Cheers, Boris Servais

sketchbook

I started some time ago, to take a sketchbook with me to make some doodles and sketches of people and objects while waiting. I like really like to use the blue and red pencils. They give another feeling while drawing on the paper, compared to the regular pencils. 

 Leen

Thumbs up, thumbs down

I´ve been doing some editorial work in the past year, and this

piece for an article about US rating agencies and the whole

Greece problem for DIE ZEIT is the latest one I did. 

I really love how they worked the illustration into

the layout. I enjoy doing editorial work a lot

because of the snappy deadlines and the

specific connection a drawing has with

the text. You get a call, and a couple

of days and a few calls and emails later

you can see the piece on newsstands all 

across the country. A very satisfying way

to work!

-Frederik 

Fragments

Hello dear PA-ers,
it has been a longer time since I came with some drawings.
These are some pictures from my ›work in progress‹ in hells kitchen. At the moment I work around with collages from parts of my pencil drawings which I`ve cutted to pieces before, what looks weird sometimes..

On the other hand I fight with coloured papers I rip off walls in the street, what came to some rather abstract results.



Finally I try to combine these. This is, due to the different materials, difficult.
But I keep on trying and bring more details to our blogg soon.
Hope to see and hear from you soon.
Best IB

Portraits & New Work

Some of the things on which I'm working this year. This is one of the originals for the monsters book, that are probably gonna be exhibited in Hamburg at the invitation of GUI-GUI end of the year.



The portrait is the first in a new series of drawings about imaginary beeings, some kind of 'fantasy' portraits if you like.


I'd like to make an exhibition next year in my native East Belgian city Eupen, although time is very short. I hope it's gonna be possible.

It is ink drawings with an acrylic 'wash' - watercolor painting.

Cheers, Boris Servais

THE INIMITABLE DICKENS

This year 2012 the world of literature is celebrating the great english novelist, Charles Dickens' 200th birthday. Although it is February for me it will take the whole year to comment all the interesting news about this inimitable person. "Drood" written by Dan Simmons seems for me a book worth reading. In his novel  life and work of Dickens are woven together very well.

Greetings,

C.Pom

THE INIMITABLE

This time I´d like to ask you all a little quiz question. The lady on the picture shows us a quotation. "A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self." Please guess to whom those words belong.-

In a few days I will tell you the person´s name.

Greetings

C.Pom

ELDORADO? - again

A new silkscreen-flyer of our concert series „Eldorado?“. An evening with thrilling improvised and electronic music, this friday at the Wendl, Berlin Kreuzberg.

Adrian

Belletristik

I illustrated a poem for the Berlin-based Belletristik Magazin. They have a lot of talented and interesting artists working on each issue - among them our very own Dieter Jüdt! - so I was honored to participate.

As you can see the special orange color they used has quite a lot of punch!

Link to the magazine page

Cheers,
Frederik.

Wolke über Hanami - Poster & Leporello

Now our newest silkscreen-project „Wolke über Hanami“ - nine drawings in response to the Fukushima disaster, inspired by a haiku of C. Pom - is published.

Printed in three colors by Olli Nerlich (Kreuzberg) and carefully bound by Cris Grieser (Prenzlberg). Available as an oversized poster (in size 70 x 100 cm) or as a leporello book (20 x 28 cm).

Thanks to all involved artists - to Leen van Hulst, Frederik Jurk, Ib Jorn, Cleo Schwinkowski, Boris Servais, C. Pom, Benedikt Rohlmann and Eva Maria Werner.

Dieter

Good-for-Nothing

Eichendorff one of the famous german poets of the Romantic wrote 1822/23 the novella "Life of a good-for-nothing". The poems contained in his narrative poem have been melodized by Robert and Clara Schumann. As German hiking songs they 

became world-famous.

These illustrations belong to my contribution for the next produced limited edition of the 000x magazine 0020.

These illustrations belong to my contribution for the next produced limited edition of the 000x magazine 0020.

Greets, c.pom

ELDORADO?

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Silkscreen-liveprinting and jam-session under the title ELDORADO?, this Saturday in Berlin Neukölln. I did the flyer (inspired by our „Maybe“- project) for this recommended event. See you there!

Adrian