Portfolio
Here you can see an quick overview of my diverelated works, without background information. After my portfolio you can see my works with background information.
Commissioned work
After some expositions at the Duikvaker (Dive-show in Holland) I was asked to design some work.
Paul Lijnen from IANTD Benelux asked me this time to design a Cavedive-logo for a T-shirt. It had to contain the titel 'Goning Underground' after a song from the Jam.
Paul Lijnen from dive-organisation IANTD Benelux asked me to design a poster to promote their Essentials-divercourse. This work was an experiment to make full oil painted work, but never did that again.
Technical Diving College needed a logo for their technical diving trips to put on a badge. I used the word 'Expeditions' and recreated elements from the original logo above this word.
This poster was designed to promote technical wreckdivetrips of Technical Diving College. I used the 'Expeditionlogo' as a starting point.
This is a poster I designed for Technical Diving College to promote their rebreathercourses and training.
Vic Verlinden was working on his first wreckdivebook. He asked me to make an illustration for his book. It took me a long time to investigate background information before I started to draw. The drawing contains details and also references to Das Boot. Unfortunately the illustration was very small printed in the book, so these details were lost.
When you are interested in the details, please click on the picture.
This poster was designed for Technical Diving College to promote their core business: wreckdiving.
Vic Verlinden ask me to design the logos for his tekdive-shows 2017 and 2019 in Belgium.
Nature creates creatures beyond my own imagination. The frogfish is one of them. When I lived on Aruba I spotted him a few times and used it for a T-shirtlogo.
After I have been working for a year at DiveStore Europe as an instructor, the company stopped. I continued on my own as a dive-instructor. This was the first poster I made to promote a deep divecourse. Didn't get any students with this poster, I still wonder why?
Posters Dive Trips
This is an overview of posters I made to promote divetrips, mostly for Technical Diving College.
This poster is designed for the upcoming wreckdivetrip with Technical Diving College along the famous Jurassic coast.
A group of technical divers asked me to design a poster for their trip to Truk Lagoon. During the proces of seeking inspiration I found information about Fukuryu. Fukuryu were suïcide-divers during Worl War II, although not operational in big numbers, I was immediately intrigued by their story and their futuristic divehelmets. I choose this as the headsubject of the design. On the right behind him, you see a well known artefact inside one of the big wrecks: the compressor, also known as "R2D2".
This poster I designed to promote a wreckdivetrip to Gulen Norway with Technical Diving College. I went on this trip myself and it was amazing diving over there.
This poster I designed to promote a wreckdivetrip to Eyemouth with Technical Diving College.
This poster promotes a wreckdivetrip to Scapa Flow with Technical Diving College. I joined the trip myself and it was my first technical wreckdivetrip.
Logbook
This is were it all started: drawn reports for my logbook. These works are recollections of important dives I actually made. This is the stuff I love to create most: free work, mostly with nonsense and fantasy, sometimes actually reports or historical facts, never a deeper meaning.
t was my first time that I made an technical dive with my friends from Technical Diving College in the Kreidesee Hemmoor, Germany. I used the logo of the store, made my version of it and called it Nitrogen Narcosis, because of the, sometimes unnoticed, narcotic effect you experience when you are deep under water.
When I started with technical diving I had to learn a lot of new stuff. I loved words like Nitrox, Normoxic, but my favourite was Voodoogas. A gasmixture you don't want to dive with. I used this word to make a drawn report of my second trip to Hemmoor.
I started to call my Hemoor-reports the Hemmoor-series. In other (commissioned) artwork I became more serieus. The visits to Hemmoor are an exception. Hemmoor means no limits to creative thinking and imagination.
When I started to work out my ideas for tecinator I, I had two ideas. This version I made later, because it was harder to draw.
After my trip to Norway I wanted to visualize the story of the attack in the Ferndale. After I did drawing of the U-455 I wanted to make more of illustrations which were based on facts and the story behind a wreck and I wanted to do it in the style of a cover of this small old war-comics. This type of illustrations turned out to be time consuming, because of the search for information. What type of ship was it? Which airplanes did they use? What happened?
For the style off the cover I copied the style of Victoria (oorlog) ministrips.
I also wrote a report for this dive, which used as inspiration for my painting.
During the holidays of 2003/2004 me and my wife visited Cuba. I made a few dives and the most interesting site was Bay of Pigs. It took me many years to visualise this dive, because I wanted to make a silkscreen printing. After several years I took a course en worked on my first realistic version. I also did research into the invasion of Bay of Pigs. But eventually the silkscreen printing botched en the project came on hold for another few years. Then the idea erased to use pigs instead of people. I did the drawing and inking over again and painted it digitally.
During a nightdivecourse with a student we met a giant pike who swim for more then 20 minutes with us. The idea for the 'dving in the Lowlands-series was born. For u full written report in Dutch, please click on the picture.
After the Pike I wanted to draw another big predator of our Dutch waters: Sander. But I had to wait till I saw it during a real dive. Two years after the encounter with the Pike I could start to drawing Diving in the Lowlands part II. I finally saw a real big one in Vinkeveen, Holland
The movie Terminator is one off my favorites and I always wanted to do something with it. I came up with tecinator.
This was the periode of diver propulsion vehicles. Although I never bought one myself, I used this as inspiration for Ocean riders. I mixed elements of the bikercuture into a underwaterversion.
I don't ride a bike myself (and I never will) but I like to draw underwater bikers, so after Ocean Riders II there wile be more. To be continued.