IDEAS: MONTH #181
IDEAS: MONTH #182
"in the mountains working less at the ark only oiling it and dedicating myself to the family making it a point to capture more ideas in the surrounding but often getting home from our mountain walks to exhausted to draw and anyway with the children to take care of especially after myrthe's departure"
IDEAS: MONTH #183
"being less diligent with my drawings traveling back to the netherlands but once there really making it a point to collect ideas and mostly seating down early in the afternoon prior picking livia up to school to draw despite at times feeling a little exhausted nonetheless getting some good ideas and also a more trained hand now that i am no longer in the mountains doing physical work"
IDEAS: MONTH #184
"focusing now very much on my drawings and also getting quite a good flow of ideas despite at times in the evening feeling to tired to draw especially after embarking in the building of a garage in our backyard using too much my hands to mix concrete and getting too much in a quite repetitive mode but also being able to take break from it and keeping with my children to draw with them very curious of my bizarre ideas also beginning to use their imagination that way trying to themselves draw funny ideas"
IDEAS: MONTH #186
"a very prolific time getting in a whole new tempo carrying on all my projects while taking care of the children and usually in the afternoon alone with silvester drawing before picking livia up from school getting quite some good ideas perhaps with some repetition to former ideas and perhaps at times a bit more spicy then before"
IDEAS: MONTH #186
"at times making quite some good and spontaneous drawings feeling quite a flow but at times feeling quite tired especially after using my hands all day laying the heavy bricks of the new garage but generally feeling quite good about drawing and often seating in the low wooden table myrthe bought second hand for in front of the sofa and seating on the ground to draw with the kids playing around me wanting to see what i am drawing also at times drawing in their room waiting for them to fall asleep"
IDEAS: MONTH #187
"still reaching a good balance with getting ideas and drawings left mostly alone with my youngest son silvester in the netherlands and experiencing a period with a full revive of my imagination now making it a point to focus on my project exclusively only later traveling down south with him and little livia going through france and germany at times having not really so much energy left for drawing at the end of the day or simply having not really a proper table to do so spending the nights in other people apartments"
IDEAS: MONTH #188
"in the mountains with my children having quite a cozy time together with the winter outside and in the evening allowing them to watch some television to draw or at times drawing with them in the afternoon often having wither livia or silvester suggesting the drawing to make and even when not drawing having both children talking about funny drawings i should do without me even hinting about them this while taking rather challenging walks up the mountains and having the mountain theme and if not that the winter showing up quite often in this batch"
IDEAS: MONTH #189
"traveling back to holland stopping several nights in germany being rather uncomfortable with seating to draw after seating so long in the cars but slowly back home in the netherlands recovering my discipline and drawing also in the afternoon in the living room with silvester also contributing to my ideas and later with myrthe at home with a burn out drawing mostly in the evening at times getting quite in a flow of good ideas and with also a very fluent hand not using it more than for creative purposes"
IDEAS: MONTH #190
"drawing regularly ever evening despite my injured back and several times also seating in my children room waiting for them to fall asleep and getting some inspiration from them about what to draw or just getting inspired in the very moment mostly altering things in the domestic surrounding or also while outside taking my youngest son for a walk in the nature among the many animals in the various farms surrounding our village"
IDEAS: MONTH #191
"walking around with august in many dutch cities getting several ideas as i used to when he was a kid always at my side and also in general with my kids bringing them to bed at night getting very spontaneous ideas while drawing waiting for them to fall asleep at times however feeling too tired to draw getting all my energies sucked in working on the anarcarkist manifesto"
IDEAS: MONTH #192
"drawing quite regularly to begin with at times showing a bit of sexual frustrations and at times getting a bit of lame ideas but at times also getting good ones later however setting off for a journey with the family in north france getting some more genuine ideas but only a self-made table in the front seat of our van to draw not really making good executions like in my studio"
IDEAS: MONTH #193
"back in the netherlands feeling rather fed up about the bad weather and also with constant noise in my left ear driving me a bit crazy but somehow handling it and feeling much better at last going to italy despite having far less comfort there particularly to draw with also my hands feeling rather tired after some intense work opening up the paths to the ark and welding despite that however always managing to squeeze out some fairly good and genius ideas"
IDEAS: MONTH #194
"being quite diligent drawing daily beside the times going camping with the family finding it too hard to draw in such setting and preferring to use the comfort of a desk back home often drawing with silvester alongside and some time later in the evening putting both kids to bed and feeling more tired and not so willing to draw also with the tip of my pen in the end breaking but keeping to use it making long lines harder to do having to often retrace them"
IDEAS: MONTH #195
"drawing at first while traveling with august to sardinia catching up with davide and either way making it a point to keep up with my drawing routine also later while driving with both my son from the north to the south of italy having less of comfortable set up to execute my drawings but still feeling in my head quite prolific"
IDEAS: MONTH #196
"in the mountains trying to still draw despite all my hard working welding fences and plastering our barn and trimming the high grass into late in the evening making it a point to try to keep up with drawing despite having changed to a lower table in our little kitchen and feeling much better a drawing later with myrthe and livia on my side taking a break after lunch before going up to the ark to glue more tags"
IDEAS: MONTH #197
"back in the netherlands falling in the routine of bringing now also silvester to school and having to pick him up at lunch and leaving him playing in the living room seating on the floor near him and drawing on the low table in front of the television often thinking of ideas together and generally feeling a good grip on my hand after months dedicated to the ark"
IDEAS: MONTH #198
"still drawing between picking up my children from school late however getting also silvester to attend school full time and trying to work hard on my writings relegating my drawings in the evening when i feel mostly tired and the living room is taken by myrthe often watching movies there either way not really wanting to stay sited trying to go more for walks and managing with some fresh air to also get some good ideas"
IDEAS: MONTH #199
"a period with very much bad weather outside dedicating myself mostly to writing and leaving my more creative practices more to the evening time managing however to keep up also with it and still get some creative ideas going"
IDEAS: MONTH #200
"getting back into my creative flow despite still working very hard writing and also editing my website mostly drawing in the evening after the children went to bed or still with the children awake down in the living room at times getting quite brilliant ideas also inspired by her many games"
IDEAS: MONTH #201
"feeling quite creative and anyway being quite diligent in making my drawings prior to leave for italy and disrupting my practice trying to anyway keep up with my drawings in our tiny kitchen with the fire going and the children running around eventually also falling sick and having to pause my drawing altogether also later traveling to my native highland to visit my old friends"
IDEAS: MONTH #202
"back in the netherlands drawing very regularly mostly in the evening after myrthe gets home from work and i ma dispatched from taking care of the children feeling always quite inventive and rich of very original ideas despite the little time i dedicate to the actual drawings and often just using as a point of departure whatever surrounds me"
IDEAS: MONTH #203
"with a rather steady life now being quite steady in my creative production despite beginning to work for a bakery early in the morning and relegating it to the evening but still at times getting good ideas and being very much in the flow with my imagination"
IDEAS: MONTH #204
"with all the physical work at the bakery and also the physical work rearranging our garden so as to have more space in the garage to fabricate my ark getting in general more bodily with more sexual ideas purely out of my imagination keeping in this respect rather pure and uncontaminated from external resources such as the internet of any other form of mass media"
IDEAS: MONTH #205
"feeling in a good flow getting ideas out of me very spontaneously and with very interesting result despite the execution being only at the sketch level but definitively as the result of a long process of nurturing my imagination with both humans as well as animals"
IDEAS: MONTH #206
"being not so diligent drawing while in italy for the spring holiday mostly working there attaching the last tags in the ark and then returning to holland and taking a bit of time to get back to my creative flow ultimately getting quite into it but also with some elemnets of frustration with the bad weather and my partner getting exhausted from work as well the children getting exhausted from school"
IDEAS: MONTH #207
"at first being quite caught up in my daily routines welding the structure of the time capsule to be placed inside the ark and taking care of the children after school but then getting more in an improvisational mood particularly with the good weather also affecting the whole of my imagination becoming more fluent in getting ideas and perhaps in executing them feeling quite cooked by the end of the day especially after taking the children to swim in the river"
IDEAS: MONTH #208
"being quite scattered with drawings in the mountains just trying to focus mostly in working at the ark or hiking and keeping with my family and friends and only in the few moments of peace resuming drawing certainly loosing a bit of my hand but still getting some good ideas"
IDEAS: MONTH #209
"back in the netheralnds at first feeling rather exhausted and depressed having landed back to my domesticated life and mostly doing my drawings with the children just sitting on the living room floor but then getting more and more into them eventually sitting in livia's room keeping her company waiting for her to fall asleep and beginning to recover my talent despite all the heavy work i have to do at the bakery just lifting and lifting crates of bread resulting in my hands being quite swollen"
IDEAS: MONTH #210
"keeping very regular every evening drawing in livia's room waiting for her to fall asleep and getting more and more into both better at drawing as well as getting off an on some good ideas with some that might repeat previous ideas especially in the evening i feel more tired but generally also improving on my health walking every day and keeping outdoors and at times reflecting my life outdoors in my drawings while at times also getting ideas connected to all my reading about hunter-gatherers"
IDEAS: MONTH #211
"funny drawings executed in the evenings after putting my daughter to bed and still at times making her involved in the process showing the results and encouraging her to also use her imagination with evenings in which ideas just flew ouf of my head or simply with idead i gathered during the day particularly when out of the children school routine going for hikes in dutch forests and surrounding nature"