These are two more motifs from my brand-new greeting card series which have just gotten published:

MOTIF: PIGmalion

• Folded A6 Postcard (4 pages)
• Plain Fun Series:
  Dozens of happy little piggies in a variety of bright colors are assembled on the cover.
• Card size is 105 x 148mm (4.1 x 5.8 in.)
• Heavy paper (300 g/m2)
• Front side is coated with a glossy foil.
• Back side is uncoated and can be used for personal notes.

♥

MOTIF: Ceci n’est pas un mouton noir

• Regular Coated A6 Postcard (2 Pages)
• Plain Fun Series:
  This card shows a little black sheep casting a shadow in a dark room. The black color comes out as really well in this card. Note the Magritte-style title and handwriting on the back ;-)
• Card size is 105 x 148mm (4.1 x 5.8 in.)
• Heavy paper (280 g/m2)
• Front side is coated with a stylish matte varnish.
• Back side is uncoated and can be used for personal notes.
• NOTE: An altered version of this motif is available for sale as a limited-edition linoprint.

SPRINGTIME! And so many possiblities of what this year can be like! (A bit of sun would be nice for starters.)

You say tomato – and I say, fuck you!

Here’s a happy little machine producing happy little people :-)

Here’s an editorial illustration on the ambivalent route to peace by means of war.

And on we go with the never-ending list of my latest greeting cards that have only just gotten out:

MOTIF: Isn’t it RoMANtic?

• Regular Coated A6 Postcard (2 Pages)
• Plain Fun Series:
  A woman hanging a huge load of laundry covered with heart motifs out to dry.
• Card size is 105 x 148mm (4.1 x 5.8 in.)
• Heavy paper (280 g/m2)
• Front side is coated with a stylish matte varnish.
• Back side is uncoated and can be used for personal notes.

♥

MOTIF: KISSmet

• Regular Coated A6 Postcard (2 Pages)
• Plain Fun Series:
  A smile, and a kiss – the true meaning of kis(s)met, which in Arabic means fate! The closeup of the female mouth here was designed in pop-art comic style.
• Card size is 105 x 148mm (4.1 x 5.8 in.)
• Heavy paper (280 g/m2)
• Front side is coated with a stylish matte varnish.
• Back side is uncoated and can be used for personal notes.

♥

MOTIF: State of the HEART

• Regular Coated A6 Postcard (2 Pages)
• Plain Fun Series:
  For this card, I have assembled 35 cute little hearts who areengaged in all kinds of activities dealing with love, passion, affection – and, of course, missing that loved one.♥
• Card size is 105 x 148mm (4.1 x 5.8 in.)
• Heavy paper (280 g/m2)
• Front side is coated with a stylish matte varnish.
• Back side is uncoated and can be used for personal notes.

Same train carry my mother,
Same train, same train,
Same train be back to-morrer,
Same train, same train.
Same train carry my sister,
Same train, same train,
Same train be back to-morrer,
Same train, same train.

Same train a-blowin’ at de station,
Same train, same train,
Same train be back to-morrer,
Same train, same train.

- Old Folk Poem (19th Century)

These are some more of the postcards and greeting cards that I am now selling from my web site :-)

MOTIF: FLOWER Power

• Folded A6 Postcard (4 pages)
• Mixed-Media Collage-Style Series:
  A beautiful flower tree in full blossom, growing from a pot residing on a table, with a watering can in the background.
• Card size is 105 x 148mm (4.1 x 5.8 in.)
• Heavy paper (280 g/m2)
• Front side is coated with a stylish matte varnish.
• Back side is uncoated and can be used for personal notes.
• Comes with a heavy envelope.

♥

MOTIF: The Simple JOYCE of Life

• Regular Coated A6 Postcard (2 Pages)
• Plain Fun Series:
  This is one my all-time favorite motifs, showing a little cartoon guy watering a word flower growing from a book. Note that the black comes as a highly saturated pitch black here, which looks really cool.
• Card size is 105 x 148mm (4.1 x 5.8 in.)
• Heavy paper (280 g/m2)
• Front side is coated with a stylish matte varnish.
• Back side is uncoated and can be used for personal notes.

A bunch of new postcards of mine has just gotten out, which I am going to feature here bit by bit. These are the first two:

MOTIF: HIPPO Campus

• Regular Coated A6 Postcard (2 Pages)
• Plain Fun Series:
  Dozens of happy little animals assembled against a dark backdrop.
• Card size is 105 x 148mm (4.1 x 5.8 in.)
• Heavy paper (280 g/m2)
• Front side is coated with a stylish matte varnish.
• Back side is uncoated and can be used for personal notes.
  

♥

MOTIF: NoTHINK’s Impossible

• Regular Coated A6 Postcard (2 Pages)
• Mixed-Media Collage-Style Series:
  A young man engaged in some heavy thinking,
  with streams of thought emitting from his brain.
• Card size is 105 x 148mm (4.1 x 5.8 in.)
• Heavy paper (280 g/m2)
• Front side is coated with a stylish matte varnish.
• Back side is uncoated and can be used for personal notes.

>MORE ANIMALS

…here’s a soprano singer in sketchy style, wishing for spring to finally arrive, dammit.

From the doctor’s summing up Ivan Ilych concluded that things were bad, but that for the doctor, and perhaps for everybody else, it was a matter of indifference, though for him it was bad.

And this conclusion struck him painfully, arousing in him a great feeling of pity for himself and of bitterness towards the doctor’s indifference to a matter of such importance.

- Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych

A few illustrations of mine have just gotten published in The Writer magazine on articles on literary fiction. One of them even made it on the cover.

The first image shows a little man balancing on a four-row stack of blocks with letters inside which say, LITERARY FICTION (see the spread below).

Image number two is of a little man looking up at a huge stack of books (this is the one that made it on the cover, in part).

And the last illustration (see below) shows a little figure writing on a sheet of paper with some thought balloons coming out of his head.

These are a bunch of images on the art of living, and the art of surviving – from wall street disasters to The World’s a Stage to finding some peace and quiet.

Here’s a male portrait I made which consists entirely of scrap paper and cut-outs from postcards and magazines.

Here’s an image visualizing different approaches to writing a novel: Some authors have a lot to say, while others don’t – but are fortunate enough to compensate through their larger-than-life egos.