De dichter schrijft in zijn verantwoording aan het slot van de bundel:

"In het voorjaar van 2018 stond ik voor het eerst op een podium om mijn eigen teksten voor te dragen.

Hoewel ik heel lang veel heb geschreven was dat in zekere zin ook de eerste keer dat ik verantwoordelijkheid nam voor dat wat ik schrijf.

Tussen voorjaar 2018 en zomer 2019 heb ik wekelijks ergens in het land op een podium gestaan. Daarbij stelde ik mij ten doel om bij iedere voordracht tenminste één nieuwe tekst te lat...

This concise book contains all you'll ever need to know about perspective drawing. In twenty masterfully organized chapters, from simple to complex, the author explains the basics and not-so-basics of perspective drawing. He includes suggestions on how to make your drawings a lot simpler, drawing methods for observation and space division, a "Remember" section at the end of each chapter in which he summarizes the most important information and principles presented in that chapter, and a "Prob...

Inspired by modern masters, Use This if You Want to Be Great at Drawing is a playful introduction to contemporary drawing styles, techniques and ideas.

This sketchbook features thought-provoking prompts and eye-popping illustrations to sharpen your skills and unlock the outer limits of your imagination.

Far from a free-for-all of random exercises, this book is divided into sections covering essential aspects of drawing such as tone, composition and humour. Accessible, fun and informative, U...

The Street Art Manual is the world's first book to combine practical advice and tactical guidance for creating 11 forms of street art in public space around the world. Every type of street art is covered, including graffiti, stencilling, subvertising, large scale murals, wheat pasting, urban projections, aerial art, yarn bombing, guerrilla theatre, banner drops and projectiles.

Each technique is illustrated with step-by-step drawings and straight forward advice about what you need and how to...

From rural Japan to international icon - Yayoi Kusama has spent her remarkable life immersed in her art.

Follow her incredible journey in this vivid graphic biography which details her bold departure from Japan as a young artist, her embrace of the buzzing New York art scene in the 1960s, and her eventual return home and rise to twenty-first-century super-fame.

Become a super awesome artist with this fantastic new book. Using real examples of art for inspiration, this great book features 20 exciting art challenges to help you create your own masterpieces. Channel the artistic genius within and you’ll be painting like Pollock, doodling like Duchamp and creating like Kahlo in no time!

* 'Great art has dreadful manners...' Simon Schama observes at the start of his epic exploration of the power, and whole point, of art. 'The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into believing masterpieces are polite things, visions that soothe, charm and beguile, but actually they are thugs. Merciless and wily, the greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure and then proceed in short order to re-arrange your sense of reality...' * With the same disarming force,...

The complete manga, anime and video game "art school" course for beginners!

The Complete Guide to Drawing Manga & Anime offers a structured 13-week lesson plan that is typically found in professional drawing classes. With 65 detailed lessons arranged into 13 weekly topics, it's simple to learn the essentials and then progress to higher levels. You can create your own personalized learning experience as the structured lessons can be followed in sequence on a strict daily schedule or as an easy...

Een bijzondere Snoecks voor bijzondere tijden, minder mocht je van de Snoeck 2021 niet verwachten. Van stijlvolle reportagefoto’s van een vampierenfeest in New York (Devin Yalkin) tot de uitbundige en schaduwrijke portretten van Floria Sigismondi. Over de verrassende en ontwapenende blik van Alastair Philip Wiper op industriële productie wereldwijd, de krachtige statements van Elina Brotherus, en de kleurrijke en luide stem van mixed media artiest Federico Solmi.

De coverfoto van Isabelle ...

In de zomer van 1955 verhuisde Picasso zijn atelier naar ‘La Californie’, een belle époque-villa van begin vorige eeuw, gelegen in de heuvels rond Cannes. De grote Jugendstil ramen en het uitzicht op de tuin met cactussen, eucalyptus- en palmbomen kwamen terecht in Picasso’s schilderijen. Deze interior landscapes, zoals Picasso ze noemde, tonen onvoltooide schilderijen en sculpturen, schildersmaterialen, muziekinstrumenten en allerhande objecten die hij als rekwisieten gebruikte in zij...