Studio PuRRR opened up for the first time for Kadefestival 2017 - including small showcase of Witty Art!

So, last Sunday, we opened up our Studio PuRRR for the public, who came to the Kadefestival Delfshaven (a local festival in the Rotterdam area Tussendijken), right at our very doorstep at the Spangesekade and organised by our partner Schiezicht. My creative partner Deborah van de Beld and I'd decided to put together a small showcase of our creative skills, resulting in some Witty Art on the walls and a bit of Deborah's handmade costumework on display.

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For this occasion, I opted for a small presentation of a series still pretty much in progress: ''TEST L.A.B. (Lost Accidental Babies)'', a series featuring one of the most popular characters in Witty Art: UnBunny. This time, UnBunny finds himself captive in what appears to be a test lab facility where UnBunnies like himself are subjected to a series of sinister experiments, resulting in them losing shape and form and ultimately their mind.

A gruesome fate, you wouldn't want to wish upon anyone, however, as we catch glimpes of life outside, the question comes to mind whether life in the madhouse is to be prefered above the real world gone even madder. Also, if you have lost your mind, who says you cannot be happy regardless? Does one really need a sane mind to be really truly and fully happy in this world?

To be fair, questions like these pop up in my mind quite often...

I showed this series, which I originally started in 2012 and is very much up and running in 2017, before at a Pop Up Expo in the beginning of 2015, but for this occasion I thought it'd be nice to show some of the drawings still in progress. As to give the viewers a bit of an impression how Witty Art is created, in this case from the initial first pencil sketches to adding the lines in ink and adding the layers of watercolouring.

Consider it a bit of ''The Making of Witty Art'', so to speak.

Directly facing those poor little TEST UnBunnies, on the opposite wall, you can see a small selection of four so-called Singles, all of them created back in 2013-2014. These have been on display on several locations before, amongst others at Route du Nord (edition 2014) and at private artgallery Lijnbaan140 (2016) and I felt that their minimalistic mood would contradict with the colourful explosive force of the TEST L.A.B.-series in an interesting way.

After all, both type(s) of work reflect the World of Witty Art, albeit in different manners, but they definitely are firmly rooted in common ground.

During the day, quite a number of interested people came into our studio and had a look at our presentation, which led to often very entertaining and interesting conversations about our work and our studio.

So this was a very good 'test run' as far as opening up our studio is concerned, a thing we definitely are willing and planning to do more often, by organising exhibitions and other creative and culinairy events, such as our pop up restaurant Tante Timmie Kookt (Tante Timmie's Kitchen) and more!

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Very happy with my brandnew Witty Art Promo Flyers!

Today, I am very happy to have my brandnew Witty Art promotional flyers delivered, thanks to my prefered printing company Drukland.NL for their quality service, as usual.

So, earlier I ordered a set of brandnew Witty Businesscards, for which I used the image of one of Witty Art's favourite characters: UnBunny, always balancing the tight rope when bridging the gap between the corporate, commercial world of the entrepreneur and the more social and creative aspects of life as an artist.

And when deliberating on which image to choose for my Witty Art promotional flyers, I didn't have to doubt for too long: ofcourse, it had to be UnBunny again and this time, too, I opted for one of my series 'Innovation In Corporation'. Because after all, UnBunny IS one of the most loved Witty Art Characters and, not totally unimportant, series featuring him are amongst my best selling as well. All in all, a good choice for a promo flyer, I suppose.

Anyway, am looking forward to utilize these flyers to the absolute max and spreading them all over town and beyond or handing them out during art events such as exhibitions and so on. So, if you live in or around Rotterdam, The Netherland, you are bound to see some of these in a place near you, very, very SOON!

Also, look out for more new Witty Art promotional items in the near future - and yes, some of these will be available on line as well!

New Witty Art promotional items coming to you in 2017!

So, recently I have been also working on some new Witty promotional items and the first priority was to get some proper new businesscards, as I have been carrying outdated ones with me for ages. They arrived by mail just yesterday and I am thrilled with the result!

It's a plain and simple design: while the back has my basic TWC Works info on it, the front shows an image taken from my Witty Art Series 'Innovation In Corporation', which features one of my most popular art characters, UnBunny, who appears to have an ongoing struggle with modern life in general and in this case, particularly the rat race that is corporate life.

Businesswise, I walk the fine line between an ideal, a social as well as a commercial vision, trying to make a a profit and some proper living while maintaining my standards as a both a creative and a social entrepreneur. Well, most of them. And in today's world, that is already challenging enough at times, as it requires compromise on almost a daily basis, even when I am making Witty Art. For instance, when I am working on a commissioned piece. Which, I hasten to add, is fine by me. I am an entepreneur, I need to make a living and am proud to do so - though it is not always easy.

BUT - when I am free to create Witty Art in my own time and my own space, I can guarantee you, that is the most powerful autonomous statement I can make as an artist, as an entrepreneur and as a human. Granted!

And ... to sustain that oh so vital and much needed space for said autonomy, I am currently working on more pretty cool Witty Art promotional items as well as new merchandise, to be sold online via my own Witty Webshop - which is also currently in progress, but will all be launched in 2017!

So, if you are interested, stay tuned for more!