For our birthday’s last year, we went to a place in Landgraaf, The Netherlands called ‘Mondo Verde’ (or ‘Green World’). The place displays breath taking statues of mythological creatures, giants and heroes as well as an array of luscious green gardens from notable places all over the world.

With plants, animals, statues and architecture exact to it’s country’s origin it was a real delight to spend time with the family and take many photos. These are two photos of the many taken from the Japanese portion of the enormous park. The lovely looking geisha statue was in the middle of a pond of colourful and elaborate Koi.

If you’re ever in the Netherlands, skip everything the tourist books tell you and go to Mondo Verde. There is an unspoken beauty and elegance to it.

This personal project took longer than expected. At first I really wanted a beautiful and innocent nymph. However, it ended up being a pretty miffed off dryad with hair of a mangled tree and power’s most Greek dryad’s couldn’t dream of.

Needless to say, I would consider this dryad to be a hamadryad, a dryad who is spiritually and physically connected with their tree. With the physical connection, if a the tree were to die, it’s dryad would as well. My little story behind it is someone tried to cut her down and she didn’t like it very much.

Some churches feel ‘clean’ while others are riddled with hypocrisy and filth. The photo I have taken here was from one church that I felt was clean. Just looking at these candles from the photo fills me with a sense of awe and calmness.

“Onze Lieve Vrouwekerk (Church of Our Lady) is one of the important survivors of the Mosan group of Romanesque architecture. Although its earliest predecessor was built in the 4th century, the oldest parts of the current church probably date from the late 9th century. Apart from several smaller additions in Gothic style, the church is still completely Romanesque.
Of special interest is the unique western facade which was built around the year 1000. It’s a so-called westwork; a wide, almost completely closed tower flanked by stair-turrets, like many other churches in the Mosan region (the archdiocese of Luik/Liège) once must have had. Of this type of westwork, this is the only one that has survived intact, although its uppermost part of dates from the 13th century, and is built in a late-Romanesque style. A later type of westwork can be seen at the St. Servatius. Inside the westwork, which served both religious and defensive purposes, are several spaces, one of which is the choir for the parish. Attached to the church was a chapter of canons, which had a choir of its own in the eastern part of the church. After 1342 a new church was built for the parish next to this one, the St. Nicolaas, but nothing of that church remains since its demolition in 1837.
Behind the westwork is a basilican church from the 12th century, which looks far more conventional. However, the two pseudo-transepts the nave has on each of its sides are special. These were built to give extra strength to the structure so it could have stone vaults. The apse of the eastern choir is flanked by two towers with massive stone spires.
Several changes in a Gothic style have been made to the church, mostly in the form of new additions to the old church. The church’s current main entrance is in a Gothic style and is located next to the western facade, giving the impression that it’s a completely different building. Behind the entrance is a Gothic baptistry from the 15th century. In the 16th century the church was expanded with a Gothic archway which surrounds a courtyard.”

-limburgchurches.tripod.com

To start, I was going to make a tutorial of this for NaldzGraphics but I felt the content wasn’t completely original. It seems everyone and their cousin likes to make angels out of themselves or anyone else they admire. There were many steps as well. I don’t think many would want to read a tutorial that consists of more than 60 steps!

I used Eliza Dushku (Dollhouse, Buffy The Vampire Slayer) for no other reason than I think she is absolutely gorgeous. I guess one would consider this fan art, neh?

The original full size (1920 x 1200) is available here.

I was asked to create an apple wallpaper and had a difficult time with it at first. I thought of the name ‘Positive Space’ as a near take on irony seeing as there is more artistic negative space.

This is a wordpress theme design I made and rather enjoyed. The koi fish is a symbol of love and friendship for the Japanese. They’re very enticing creatures!

Feel free to contact me if you may have interest in this

Please take a look at Matthew Heidenreich’s original http://psdvibe.com/2009/01/20/corporate-wordpress-style-layout/

Certainly inspirational!

This is a logo I made for a Dutch Image Consultant. She stressed that she wanted her logo to be pure, fresh, different and business like with a sexy twist. For this, I felt a milk chocolate brown and soft yet bold blue worked best.

My partner held a competition on his forum asking members to design themselves as superheroes. He – as the administrator – didn’t take it too seriously and asked me to do something for him. This was the outcome and it was great fun! I personally like his rainy side…

In March 2008, Giorgio Armani held an ‘Emporio Armani – Get Together’ advertising campaign for his He/She perfume line. He wanted graphic and video artists to portray our ideas on togetherness and freedom with an urban flair.