Klaas Op De Beéck

As you might have noticed there haven’t been many caricatures posted here in a while, but here are two self-portraits I painted last week. I like the way the colors turned out on the second one more than the first one, but they are both experiments.

Tomorrow morning at 11:10 am(GMT +1:00) I have my plain to Washington DC and from Washington DC I’ll fly to Cleveland airport, Ohio. My arrival at Cleveland is scheduled on 18:19 pm (local time).

Keep folowing my blog upcoming week, because I’m going to try to upload some pictures or drawings every day, to keep you guys updated.

Hi Folks!

In about three weeks I’m Leaving Europe for a week, when I’m going to Sandusky, Ohio in the United States, where I will attend my second ISCA convention. The convention starts on Monday the 2nd November with the registration and Ice-breaker reception, and continues during the weak with all kinds of stuff like the 4 amazing special guest speakers (Sam Viviano, Tom Richmond, Mark Fredrickson and Hermann Mejia) from the MAD usual gang of idiots, the amazing workshops and seminars about almost everything involving drawing caricatures and of course the convention room, where we’ll draw each other 24/24 during the 6 day’s of the convention. The convention ends with the awards banquet  on Saturday the 7th. This year convention is even more exiting because it’s in the largest indoor water-park of the US and I’m going one day early for enjoying the thrill rides in Cedar point, one of the best amusement parks in the world. More about all this later, I’ll try to keep my blog updated  everyday during my stay, with some fresh pictures and amusing story’s, so… Stay tuned!!

As you might have noticed I didn’t upload any new caricatures on my blog in about a month, this is because I’m having it really busy with my education on the college for fine arts in Ghent, where I’m painting. I’ll try to upload some pictures of my first works this week and I’ll try to make some time to draw some caricatures this weekend.

For the ISCA menbers, see you on the con!!

My Michael Jackson caricature is being exhibited at the international tribute exhibition in Bucharest. The Tribute Exhibition for Michael Jackson is an international project, including artists from many countries and is organized by Nicoleta Ionescu and Alexandru Ifrim. The list of participants to the exhibition:

Fabio Shin (Brazil), Klaas Op De Beéck (Belgium),
Gheorhe Matei (Romania), Bill Plympton (USA)
Oronde Kairi (USA), Ben Towle (USA)
Mike Greaney (USA), Joseba Morales (Spain)
Yamen Elgamal (Egypt) ; Kagan McLeod (Canada)
Scott Jones-McMahon (UK) ; Luis Eduardo Leon (Colombia)
Miroslav Gerencer (Croatia) ; Sal Navarro (USA)
Chris Wahl (Australia) ; Michaël Olivier (France)
Aswini&Abani (India) ; Jourdenais Jonathan (Canada)
Tónió (Hungary) ; Bogar Chancay – Ecuador
Jaime Ramirez (UsA) ; George Williams (UK)
Mark van Olmen (The Netherlands) Francisco Medina (Venezuela)
Ben Heine (Belgium) Alessandro Grandinetti (Italy)
Guaico (Colombia) ; Turcios (Spain)
Gergely Bacsa (Hungary) ; Daihaa Wyrd(Belgium)
Radu Raileanu (Romania) Nicoleta Ionescu (Romania) Alexandru Ifrim (Romania)
Dan Ionescu – architect

Make sure to visit the blog of the exhibiton

Yesterday the convetion was officially opened with “the ice breaker” reception, where everybody starts with some first sketches and networking with other artists. At this moment the convention room is filled up with artists who have been drawing already for the whole day and some of them will also continue drawing during the night. At this first real day there where already seminars by Jason Seiler and Jan Op De Beeck.

Today we decided to visit downtown Raleigh and unsuspected I had the unique historical opportunity to attend Obama’s race in Raleigh. After waiting two and half an hour in line we made it to the place Obama was speeking to the audience. This was an amazing experience. There were thousands of people suporting Obama.

Today we went to Winston-Salem,  it was a City with a nice architectural new part and a green old part. For getting there we hired a car and had an accident, but nobody was hurt. And we got a new car from the rental service.

We had our plane in Brussels at 10pm (local time) and arrived in Chicago at 2am, we had already been flying for about 8 hours. We had 2 meals and lots of soft-drinks. In Chicago we had to wait for three hours to catch our connecting flight to the Raleigh-Durham area, North Carolina.
In those long hours of waiting I read some stuff, and ofcourse drew!

Tomorow we’ll rent a car and visit the smokey mountains.

Hi there,

Tomorrow I have my plain to Ralleigh, where I will attend the NCN convention. At this convention caricaturists from over the whole planet come together. This convention starts the 2nd November and ends 7 November with the Awards Banquet, where the awards of the competitions will be announced. In the week before the convention I will do some site-seeing in North-Carolina.

Hey everyone,

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