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Summer School in Utrecht

Illustratiecursus in Utrecht door Ellen Vesters

Studio Vlijt

 

The perfect way to pay for my Cambridge Summer School was to host a summer school myself.
And so I did.

The summer school was part of a dynamic short courses week at cultural centre Parnassos in Utrecht.
There was a photography course, a singing course, a soul choir course, a music composition course, and then there was my class.
It was such a fun week.

 

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In such a short course it’s nice if you can focus on a theme.
I chose to focus on ‘Drawing the City’ and planned all kinds of fun city activities.
We went urban sketching, made city maps, tried some character design, based on the city people we met during our sketch excursion, and also tried our hand at some guerrilla art (with many many thanks to Rotslab for lasercutting our stencils).

 

Illustratiecursus in Utrecht door Ellen Vesters

Manon Sas

 

Have I mentioned I love teaching?

Two famous peeps in my class!
Check out: http://prettyunexpected.nl/ & http://vlijtig.blogspot.nl/

 

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Naomi den Besten
Studio Vlijt
Manon Sas

All eyes on Meike

A couple of weeks ago I got an unusual request.

An educational institution asked me for a couple of sketches of a character that would depict three processes, namely Development, Planning and Evaluation of educational programs.

Nothing unusual about that.

 

However, they then asked me for something that is a big no go in ‘illustration land’…
someone else would turn my sketches into the final drawing!

 

I will let the final image speak for itself.
This kid’s got some skills… Meike is only seven years old!!!

 

 

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Creative Mornings Utrecht

Those of you that are living abroad, will probably already have heard of Creative Mornings, a concept that was put out there by the ever inventive SwissMiss, Tina Roth Eisenberg:

 

Creative Mornings is a global breakfast lecture series for creative types. Each monthly event is free of charge and includes a 20 minute talk, plus coffee!”

 

Finally they came to the Netherlands and, very happily ever after for me, they landed in Utrecht! Among other designers they asked me to deliver some (breakfast themed) designs for little magnets to fill their goody bags with. As I am all for free sharing, I was happy to oblige.

 

Below the designs I made for them.

My personal favorite was chosen: can you guess which one?

 

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