410 Portrait of Ted Cruz in watercolors

This is Ted Cruz – a newly announced candidate for the US 2016 elections – he’s republican and apparently “tea party” republican. He likely eats innocent kittens for breakfast and gives his grandchildren pink automatic rifles for Christmas. (sorry if i offend somebody on regards to their “freedom”). Anyway – I just wanted to paint … Read more

145 Portrait of John Dramani Mahama, the president of Ghana

See the article of reference here and the original photo here The president underlines the importance of not only focusing on material facts concerning the spread of ebola. Instead of focusing on the amount of sick people, hospital beds, available docters, we need to approach it in a more human scale (my own words). I … Read more

141 Portrait of Mitch McConnell

Congratulation on electing your new ruler, americans. May he be feared by his enemies and loved by his people May he live long and prosper And may his hand grow back to reasonable proportions This is actually the first page in my new sketchbook. This nice and friendly looking guy will greet me with his … Read more

140 Portrait of a worrisome Barack Obama

See the original here A strange expression isn’t it?… Perhaps this press photographer just caugt Obama in the end of a yawn. Or did he actually frown like that? Amarican elections get almost as much media coverage in Denmark as danish elections.. It’s a question of entertainment.. Yeah sure, it influences everybody who is behind … Read more

128 Portrait of Lars Løkke Rasmussen

This is a Danish ex-premiere minister. Maybe the future minister aswell – he’ll be remembered for.. nothing much.. unless he gets Denmark involved in another war.. Now that would be something worth remembering.. Until that day, he’s only known for being the guy that drank a lot of tap-beer paid by the tax-payer.. We don’t … Read more

121 Peter Piot – the scientist who discovered ebola

This is not strictly news – but it’s a picture that i stumbled upon in the newspaper, and I wanted to draw it. I need to work on simplified faces seen from afar. Yesterday was my nightshift-friday, so I’m in my usual zombie-like state, so forgive me if i’m not too productive today!

119 Picture from the news (Mahmoud Abbas)

memadtwo suggested that I try drawing from photos from the newspapers. Actually I have thought about that for some time now- Maybe I’ll start doing a daily series of illustration of news. We’ll see. Today, Sweden officially recognized Palestine as a state. They’re the first EU country to do so. The Israelian foreign minister responded … Read more