Hi everybody,

Last minute, and a bit too late, I made a little freebie for Halloween.
It’s a little box that you can put your candy in or other kinds of treats. Originally I wanted to make a couple of variations to this box, but I simply didn’t have enough time.

Have fun with this freebie and I wish everyone an great  HALLOWEEEEEN!!!

Click to Download – Halloween Candy Boxes

I made a tea towel calendar design for Spoonflower.
This time it’s a bit kitsch with flowers, haberdashery and of course tea. I think it turned out to be a happy lot, haha.
The design can now be purchased at Spoonflower:

Finally the day came!
On the 7th of October the exhibition ‘Hello World – 8 children’s book illustrators from Apeldoorn’ opened their doors.
Together with 7 other illustrators from Apeldoorn (the town I live in) I am exhibiting my work in a galerie.
The other illustrators, friends and colleagues are Jenny Bakker, Marius van Dokkum, Hélène Jorna, Roel Ottow, Caroline van Pelt, Nina Smit en Nynke Talsma

The opening of the exhibition was so nice. A lot of people came to visit the gallery and view our work.
Here you can find a tiny impression of the openings day of our exhibition!

Entrée with balloons!

My husband Coen the ice cream man

Entrez

Visitors checking out my portfolio book.

Visitors looking at my card rack

My wall with illustrations

Me (in yellow) talking with Nynke Talsma

Marius van Dokkum sitting at his table

Table of Hélène Jorna

Table of Hélène Jorna

Work by Jenny Bakker

Work by Hélène Jorna

Work by Nynke Talsma

Some more visitors

illustration on a wood panel by Jenny Bakker

Work and biography of Nynke Talsma

Work by Nina Smit

Work by Marius van Dokkum

Work by Anneke Eggermont

Work by Roel Ottow

I already told about this expo a couple of times via social media, but I also wanted to blog about it.
On October 7th 2012 I will be taking part in an exhibition together with 7 other children’s book illustrators of Apeldoorn, the Netherlands. It will be taken place in gallery H10A in Apeldoorn.
(Also check: Caroline van Pelt • Jenny Bakker • Marius van Dokkum • Hélène Jorna • Roel Ottow • Nina Smit • Nynke Talsma)

The expo is linked with the Dutch Children’s Books Week, an annual event that focusses on the latest and most potential children’s books of the year. This year’s theme is ‘Hello World’, and
Het thema van de kinderboekenweek dit jaar is ‘Hallo Wereld. Following this theme I made this illustration about travelling kids that have fun collecting all kinds of animals and souvenirs during their trip.

For more info about the exhibition you can have a look on the website. Sorry it’s Dutch only
www.apeldoornse-illustratoren.nl xxx

Miriam

Today I received a book from Dutch publisher Malmberg for which I illustrated. It’s called ‘Taal Actief’ voor groep 4
It’s fun seeing your work back in a book. I hope the school kids also agree and like it as well.
There are a lot of pretty illustrations in it from other Dutch illustrators as well.

Here are some examples of mine.
I hope that the kids who are going to use these books are going to enjoy learning from them.

About a week ago I made a fan art painting for the movie ‘Brave’.
It was featured on the website of Pixar Times. their theme was to draw a Pixar heroine.
You can view their blog post here for more pretty Pixar fan art.

And here is my submission.
I have to admit I revised it a little bit today.
The deadline was a bit tight for me to combine with my other commissions, so I send them a painting I wasn’t perfectly happy about yet to be honest.
But now she is finished, and I am more content about the result then I was earlier.

I wanted to make her look like a brave girl, but with a little bit of insecurity in her eyes.

Kind Regards,
Miriam

A new illustration!