Category: Ernst Haeckel

And some more finished prints/ drawings

by Laurens de Blocq van Scheltinga, posted in Albertus Seba, Art, book, Collections, color pencils, Ernst Haeckel

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A small new sketchbook

by Laurens de Blocq van Scheltinga, posted in Art, Beestjes, book, Collections, Creatures, Drawings, Eggs, Ernst Haeckel, Giclée, Inspiration, sketch

Busy now with working out these sketches. These will become some smaller color prints eventually.

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Painted drawings…?

by Laurens de Blocq van Scheltinga, posted in Albertus Seba, Art, Beestjes, Collections, Creatures, Drawings, Ernst Haeckel, Geen categorie, Inspiration, Taxidermy

New work; paintings on wood, for a new collection of creatures

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by Laurens de Blocq van Scheltinga, posted in Albertus Seba, Creatures, Drawings, Ernst Haeckel, Giclée, Inspiration

+20 new pages full of creatures… and I don’t even have my big book of inspiration now! Once I completely move to my new studio, Natural Curiosities of Albertus Seba should give met yet another boost with new ideas.
I will post some new stuff in the very near future…

The second 2D collection

by Laurens de Blocq van Scheltinga, posted in Albertus Seba, Art, Collections, Creatures, Drawings, Eggs, Ernst Haeckel, Giclée, Inspiration

A second page of creatures. A diversity that can be found in jungles, warm and moist places.

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A new way of working

by Laurens de Blocq van Scheltinga, posted in Albertus Seba, Art, Beestjes, Collections, Creatures, Drawings, Ernst Haeckel, Giclée

After a long time of silence, I’m working full time as a art teacher at the moment, here is the first finished work I’ve made.

It’s a combination between a regular drawing and digital one. Hope you like it..

As you can see I’ve continued working with a collection as my subject. More of these will follow…

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31 cabinets to fill..

by Laurens de Blocq van Scheltinga, posted in Albertus Seba, Art, Beestjes, Collections, Creatures, Eggs, Ernst Haeckel, Inspiration, Taxidermy

Some time ago I met a biology teacher from a high school at a workshop I gave. She saw what I was doing in my work and I was asked if I would be interested in a dozen or so cabinets dating from the early 1900’s.

Today my studio had a whopping 23 wooden cabinet cases and another 8 wooden/cardboard on the shelves. Some of them are almost intact, so I won’t touch those. Others are all turned into dust, not a single butterfly to see anymore. I will use those cases to collect my own creatures in, like the ones you can see here.

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A new way of viewing

by Laurens de Blocq van Scheltinga, posted in Albertus Seba, Art, Beestjes, Collections, Creatures, Dissections, Drawings, Eggs, Ernst Haeckel, Giclée, Inspiration, Larger sculptures, Photoshop, Taxidermy, Wildlife photography

I embedded my work sorted on category on my latest page: www.laurensdeblocq.com/my-work

Here you can see all my work, zoom in, and scroll to the next image.  I hope you like it!

Albertus Seba

by Laurens de Blocq van Scheltinga, posted in Albertus Seba, Art, Collections, Creatures, Drawings, Ernst Haeckel, Inspiration

Next to the plates of Haeckel and a lot of other copperplate print of the forms of nature, Albertus Seba’s Cabinet of Natural Curiosities has always been a great inspiration for me. Now I’ve used a small copy of the book until now, I’m finally able to buy the original and very large version of Taschens masterpiece. Now I will use these large prints for my new work on drawings and sculptures. To be continued…

Haeckel and the Trunkrat

by Laurens de Blocq van Scheltinga, posted in Art, Collections, Creatures, Drawings, Ernst Haeckel, Inspiration, Photoshop
An addition to the (not so accurate) Ernst Haeckel schematic. The three evolving steps of the Trunkrat.

As an experiment to my series on evolution.