Pictures by Derek Bacon
“Alles gaat de goed kant op” (Everything’s going in the right direction).
Portrait of Dutch Prime Minister, Mark Rutte, in celebration of his decade in power, and recent re-election on the back of the ‘toeslagenaffaire’ — a scandal involving false allegations of fraud against some 26,000 Dutch families, many with immigrant backgrounds, and many of whom were left financially ruined as a result. Go Mark!
Buckets of rain, buckets of tears, got all them buckets comin’ out of my ears. Ink and pencil on paper 44 x 44cm. Inspired by something I heard in a Rupert Sheldrake lecture on consciousness.
Interview on Skillmill’s Job and Industry Journal.
Many thanks to Juste Galminaite!
…for all your problems. Pen, brush and ink + pencil—50 by 50cm portrait of Dr Younan Nowzaradan.
Saturday, May 8th I’ll be on Sketchbook Skool to show some of the things you can do with ink. If you’re interested in following along in this 3-hour workshop, to learn about 3 different ink techniques in one picture, then please check out the workshops at SketchbookSkool.com.
Pencil, ink and ballpoint pen drawing. L—R (behind): Sergei Skripal, Alexei Navalny, Yulia Skripal, Boris Nemtsov, Nikolai Glushkov, Stanislav Markelov.
A cover illustration for this week’s Internazionale magazine.
Many thanks to Maysa Moroni.
Ferdinand Grapperhaus with cakes.
The face of Kim Jong-un (Commander-in-Chief, Supreme Leader of the Nation, Leader of the Party and the People, Highest Incarnation of the Revolutionary Comradeship, Invincible and Triumphant General, Bright Sun of the 21st Century, Ever-Victorious, Iron-Willed Commander) is always there to greet a new morning.