Most people will think about books, but today almost every product imaginable can be purchased one item at the time, like with a book. Decor, Footwear Clothes, Wall art and more… Being a self-taught graphic designer, I started off by designing my own book cover that was published in 2001. Seventeen years later the opportunities…
One can never go wrong with a calendar gift. The first three calendars are all the designs and photos to do with Africa, the culture, leather crafts about its rainbow people. The Floral Treasures calendar is ideal for flower and plant lovers. Most are manipulated photos from the Cape and surroundings. The images in the…
I wish I knew! I like to create artworks for shirts, but is it trendy? It all depends which market we design for, and since I’m more European – being Dutch in origin but living in Cape Town, my taste and what I feel looks nice on a T-shirt or on other products is probably…
My memories about Christmas is linked with playing in the snow, making a snowman or decorating a real fir-tree with my mom and sister in Holland where I grew up. My mom owned several Anton Pieck paintings she acquired during the fifties, so I created an Anton Pieck calendar and combined them with modern illustrations…
2018 is Soon Upon us, and we are again looking for that special gift? Have any of you started shopping for the Christmas celebrations? Online shopping for special occasions like Christmas has to start a lot earlier. Before the Internet, I myself did my shopping at the last-minute. One week before, but our reality has…
On the internet these days how often do we have to prove just that? That we are Human! What would our great great grandparents say if they knew, but then the Internet would have been an unknown concept let alone computers. As I was writing my End of Times blog I was inspired to created…
I cannot remember when I discovered Pinterest, but I do know that I was hooked for a whole week. Any person that is addicted visually, meaning they love images about almost any topic, they will love Pinterest. Today I have well over 200 boards, but two weeks ago I felt the need to update the…
These four images are my latest designs posted on. Redbubble and Society6 and it will soon appear on Zazzle and other POD shops I have here linked on my blog. Please look out for the products that have these designs titled: Music for the Soul – Succulents for Sale – Wheels of Time and Are-there-extraterrestrial-civilizations-we-are-not-aware-of.…
Several Print-on-demand Facebook group’s members reported that their art was for sale on Amazon without their consent. ….At first I didn’t want to look out for any designs of mine. It would so spoil my creativity; so I rather just carried on designing. Then one day this week my husband by pure chance spotted one…
I would never have believed that one day I would join the local shop chains who have begun to advertise gifts for Mothers’ day, but here I am today, doing the same thing. Zazzle, being my largest shop so far, I’ve created some adverts from my latest designs. When it is mother’s day? In the…
Shopping for gifts 