Ceramic experiments.

Last year I tried pottery but was hopelessly bad at it. Still, my attraction towards clay remained, so I joined another course. This time no turning wheel involved, which allowed me to work at a slower, calmer pace. And I absolutely love it! These are the results of my first few goes. I will be continuing my experiments for the coming months. 

Eusebio the plant pot head.

There's no place like home jewelry box.

Beauty on the inside pencil holders.

Rekult workshop "From A to Zine"

It's been waaaay too long since I posted on here. So here are some lovely photos by German (http://todytod.com/) that were taken during a workshop that Amy and I were invited to give hosted by Rekult. It was a lot of fun and wonderful to see all the results by the end of it. I would definitely join again!

Plantágoras exhibition at Niche Rotterdam.

On the 20th of June there will be a small opening
for my little Plantágoras watercolour series.
Everyone is welcome! I will be at Niche from
5 to 9pm welcoming people.
The first visitors will get a nice little present!
Here's a link to the event.

Bike exhibition.

There will be a bike exhibition coming up in Rotterdam very soon where the bike rims I drew on will be showing! Nice surprise!

Fresh from the printer!

We got our delivery of lovely A4 prints on 300 gr "artist paper" today! The paper and colours are great, very high quality, super bright colors!

I posted them to Bego who will be showing (and hopefully selling) them at the 

XV Creative Jam Festival in Lisbon. 

Pictographic.

For the past few months I've been creating imagery for Holaluz.com's blog. It's a good mental exercise to read an article and translate it into one simple and clear image. Check their blog for some interesting articles about elecrticity related topics.

Boquería illustration in Cosebelle Magazine.

Check this link for other market-themed illustrations. 

Creative Jam in Lisbon.

Odios Obvios will be present in this design event in Lisbon. Bego, the other half of this project, will be present, selling prints of our illustrations.

Odios Obvios.

For some weeks now, my friend Bego and I have been secretly working on these illustrations for our new Tumblr blog called "Odios Obvios", which means obvious hates (the name doesn't translate so well). Each week we will illustrate things that seam obviously hateful to us.

You can enjoy and follow us through facebook or Tumblr.

http://odiosobvios.tumblr.com/

Little People.

I'm borrowing a Wacom tablet and been drawing little people for an illustration for Vers Beton. Coming up soon!

Horovod / Хоровод

Last week I finished this project for a Russian speaking toddler group in London. 

More pics coming up soon! 

My contribution to Wit Industries X Koga Art Series.

They're out there at last! Wit Industries asked me to decorate the bike rims of one of their super fancy racer bikes and this is the result. Click on the image for a bigger view.

Click here for the full article on my contribution more photos:
http://art.witindustries.nl/3-RACHEL-SENDER

I also have a video of the process of painting them. Fun and challenging!



Illustrations on bike rims from Rachel Sender on Vimeo.

Gouache.

It had been years since the last time I used gouache paints. I have been seeing more illustrations lately done with these paints and started feeling jealous. So yesterday I treated myself to a few tubes and had a go. This post is also a sneak peak of a project I'm working on with the writer Adele Chong. 

This was done during the course I've joined at Studio Kolectiv. 

Transgender Transformation Flipbook.

As part of The Flip Collection III at Printroom, I'm making this flipbook titled "Transgender Transformation". 

The drawings are done by hand and later coloured in Photoshop. There are 42 frames, which was a lot of work. But if someone in the cartoon industry heard me they would laugh. This gave me a small (tiny, infinitesimal)  taste of the amount of work that goes into making a full animation film. Mind blowing.

Self-made Christmas presents.

I hand painted, cut and sew these personalized dolls for my sister, her partner and my nephew. It was a fun (and tedious!) process. A special thanks goes to my friend Conxa who helped me with her sewing machine skills.

The happy owners.