This summer I decided to take part in the annual Global Talent Search (GTS) – one of the top competitions for illustrators. I love working for a brief for a specific demographic while showing who I am. Knowing who the client is, understanding the type of customer I'm making art for is very helpful. I enjoy expanding the research beyond things like income, marital status and geographic region. I try to understand how they spend their time and wonder what are their favorite TV

A week ago I wrote about sharing my work process with my daughter and suddenly I felt the picture I portrayed might sound too ideal. So I decided to revisit this subject. I work from home and working during the kindergarten summer holiday is not easy. But it is not that easy during the school year either, so I use my ordinary bag of tricks to distract, share and balance. To my usual methods (I guess this is a subject to a whole series of blogposts) I added some extra summer a

My scrapbooking illustration is being featured in the 26 issue of Uppercase Magazine. This means a lot to me because I love Uppercase and feeling honored to be chosen to take part in this creative and inspiring magazine. Furthermore, this was a great opportunity to share my work and aspiration with my daughter. My 5 1/2 years old girl is getting more interested in my professional work and I find it very important to show her the different stages of my process. I wish she will

These days we are surrounded by beautiful pictures of lovely houses and perfect homes. It makes me jealous sometimes; at first I thought I love the idea of spending my life in those impeccable buildings and picture-perfect rooms. But when I think deeper on the real meaning of home to me and when I take another look in my Pinterest account, I realize that what I really yearn for has nothing to do with perfection. On the contrary, I want our abode to be alive, an ever growing a

Do you like yellow? I used to dislike yellow. I don’t really know why. Maybe the reason was this color never suited my skin tone. Perhaps because yellow is such a contrast to my beloved blues it made me feel restless. Anyway, yellow was never part of my go to color palette. But lately I realize I'm using yellow again and again. I started to enjoy its bright and cheerful feel and the joy it evokes. I even like and appreciate the power of using yellow to make contrast. This is