Pictoplasma 1

Just like last year I went to the Pictoplasma festival in Berlin!
And of course I started another traveldiary and came back with 26 pages! :-O
Let's start with my first day (sorry, only in Dutch) :






The cat in the sink is drawn by Gemma Correll. (check out her work, it's so funny!)
The graffiti is from FIT in collaboration with Alex Godwin and Lowbros.
The felt fly and kappa monster were made by Yasmin Sheikh aka Nerderella!
And the glass bug sculpture was made by the Canadian Bee Kingdom.

To be continued...

London felt trip

Last month I had to go to London for work and took a little friend with me...

He enjoyed the flight.

The trip continued in the underground.

We did some sightseeing at Somerset House.

There was a graphic art festival going on there...

And my little friend enjoyed the artworks. Look, there's the queen!

Then on to a small toy museum...

But the other toys didn't seem to like him....

...or scared him!

Off we go then!

...to spend a few relaxing hours in a little park, before we had to fly back again.

Socks 6

The signs says 'It is Dangerous to Climb Sculpture'

To be continued...

Cake & dolls

I decorated some boxes as gifts for my dolly friends...

And before you think I've gone crazy... I don't mean any imaginary friends, but real people
who collect dolls like me. Though well, that's up to you to think I'm crazy for playing with
dolls at my age. ;-)

We met at the beach and sat down with all our dolls for cake and tea.

Japan at home

Around this time of the year I start to miss Japan, so here are some pics from my last trip.

This was a traditional house where we stayed for a few days.

Inside. The 'window' in the sliding door didn't leave much light in.

The friends we stayed with were so nice, they had put some snacks and fruit
on the kotatsu (low table).

So let's take a bite. Wait... what?!

He yeah, that wasn't in Japan, it's in my own bookcase! It's the latest room I built
for my dolls! ;-)
It's all built from foamboard and printed paper. The miniatures are from ReMent,
a Japanese company that produces dollsize items for collectors.

Don't eat the toys

I made this chocolate box for my graduation at the Art Academy of Utrecht (HKU).

The theme of my work was toys for grown ups, so these are very special chocolates....

They're cuddly toys! Now you can enjoy chocolates without getting fat!

In the same range; Skinny french fries!

These fries are so thin that they're kept in a cage and you're not supposed to feed them.
And not eat them either if you want to stay as thin as they are.

In the dark

While I'm sitting at my (low) desk and look sideways, suddenly
'someone' is standing there in the shadows.

Beesies are watching

All ready for tonight's match....

Happy Easter!

My mother has been digging around in her garden and then found
one of my old toys! It immediately joined the Easter celebrations.

Lego hair

An older photo from a hairdresser in Hong Kong.
I'm working on the comic diary of my last Asia trip, so I'm browsing through
my photos again. I found out that I shot 4000 photos in those 2 months....

Our plants

Yes I know, we have too many toys in our house.

Living house

While I put a face on a lamp, my boyfriend gave eyes to the teapot.

A playful birthday party

This is what you get when a doll collector friend celebrates her birthday.

(The doll is a so called BJD (Ball Jointed Doll)).

Great Steampunk-octopus (from the Mechtorians series by Dokter A)

Frog paparazzi

(pic from last Monday)
(photo by Kanae Kasahara)

Frog at sea

My Wonderfrog went to the beach today.

He came across some interesting things...


And even found a message in a bottle!

PS Wonderfrog is a Japanese doll, designed by doll designer Kenzo.

Little witch

I've been working all day on a two-page comic for Zone 5300.
Zone5300 is a comic/culture/art magazine, that celebrates its 15th anniversary
this year (and I've been drawing for it since the very first issue!).

My comic is about the weird adventures of a litte witch. I drew the figures on paper,
cut them out, and mixed them with miniatures.
Here's a photo that I didn't use, before Photoshop. The little teapot was so heavy that
it fell down all the time.

Playmoberlin

Welcome to Berlin, where they announce construction work on the underground
with Playmobil figures!


Also on the television screens inside the wagons (sorry, the train was moving)

And they're even used on protest signs! (The German says 'equal rights for all')