I have come across an extremely unusual artist in the last few days, a most extraordinary artist, whose work appeals to me! His work has attracted to me in the most unusual fashion.
So, let us see his work and then go on about it.
He goes about his work in the most unusual way…. As you can see. He says in his website that he gets inspiration from his wandering mind….. He says it all in his website.
Redmer Hoekstra (1982) graduated from the Art Academy in Zwolle as a visual artist and illustrator in 2009. “I’ve always loved alienation and fantasizing, daydreaming. As a child I had all kinds of theories about how the world worked. At the Academy I was able to rediscover this and process this in to my work. How things work is a fascination of mine and in many drawings you can find this. I open up appliances and objects and freely change what is inside. Often a subject gets a completely different feeling or meaning. I play with form, meaning and function, while new combinations arise. Often surprising, strange and funny but also with a strange kind of logic, a fantastic and surreal world.
I find my inspiration riding the train or on the road, where my mind can float through the landscape and new connections between things appear. A philosophical view of the world and myself. Who am I? What is my reality and how do I get to decide how it looks and works? They are pen drawings on paper. I work with fine liners . By shading I create light and space, which gives a drawing life. It is important to draw as realistically as possible, to make the alienation most powerful. It’s a laborious and almost artisanal technique . A drawing on average takes 32 to 40 hours.
So all that remains is to illustrate this blog with his work……..
So, there you have it…. His artistic endeavours.
His art is attractive, and I love it, the weirdness of it, and the unusual way he goes about his artwork, drawing it as opposed to using lithography or etching attracts me too.
It remains only to post his website…… That way you will be able to get in touch with him, or – even -buy some of his artwork! https://www.redmerhoekstra.nl/
Well, we have so many images for you to play with, though these ones are probably copyright.
All these images are reality distorted, which is quite fun!
So, here they are for you to play with.
This is a wonderful idea!
The disappearing road…….
An amusing idea……
Autumn activity…..
Now this is an idea!
An impossible idea…….
How to make an unpleasant day into a pleasant one.
Now this is an idea!
I hope that these images will spark off an idea in you…… But perhaps they will give you an idea for images that you will think of for yourself…. But in any event they are really weird ideas, and that is enough.
I have decided to put more images up for you to use for whatever you want…. By the way, these are copyright free images, so you may use them as you want. So here they are…….
Here is a farmer….. I have no idea why they took this photo, but it is a great study
A sad study of an old man, use it with your imagination.
Another worker.
And now for history!
A soldier from the USA’s civil war.
Abraham Lincoln in the flesh.
A negro family…… in the time of the civil war
An armless soldier from the American civil war……
So, here is a collection of images that you may use freely, and I hope that they are of use to you.