As you can see, there is absolutely nothing wrong with Charlie Sheen.nbsp; Only with the rest of mankind. nbsp;

I drew this for NRC Handelsblad in my hotel room in California, on the return journey. nbsp;Now that I'm back home, I plan to be posting on a daily basis again.nbsp;

His writing somehow prompted me to make a detailed drawing. Ah, the joy of slowly building up a portrait out of many small lines! Sometimes this is fun to do as a counterbalance to the much less controled watercolour portraits

An attempt to catch the strong features of Dutch author Wanda Reisel in a few lines. nbsp;A simpel portrait, without particular references to her work.nbsp;

A portrait of the short-listed authors for the Libris literature prize 2010:nbsp; Mensje van Keulen,nbsp; Marie Kessels, Peter Terrin, Walter van den Broeck, Bernard Dewulf ennbsp;Tom Lanoye.nbsp; Berhard Dewulf won the € 50,000 prize.nbsp; It is always a interesting to bring different heads together within a predefined space on the page of the Vrij Nederland magazine.nbsp; Here I tried to bring some unity by fusing the contours and by sticking to five colours: alizarin crimson, aureolin, ceruleum, burnt umber, french ultra.nbsp;

Father Umberto Bossi, leader of the Lega Nord in Italy, has a shadow, his sonnbsp; Renzo.nbsp; Here's a picture of Renzo.

Today Pieter Winsemius asks Mark Rutte in NRC Handelsblad whether the choice for CDA and PVV does justice to the principles and ideas of theirnbsp; party, the VVD.

The new books of the gentlemen-authors Arthur Japin and Adriaan van Dis are reviewed in Vrij Nederland.nbsp; My literary portraits usually refer to the last book in atmosphere or theme.nbsp; With more than one person in the frame that approach tends to lead to messy pictures, so I opted for a simple straightforward portrait, that looks nice in the magazine.nbsp;nbsp;

Joran van der Sloot (1987) has become a celebrity in the US, in Peru and in his native country, the Netherlands. nbsp;He was first arrested and later released in connection with the murder of Natalee Holloway on Aruba (2005). nbsp;He surfaced again in Thailand in relation with a women trafficking deal and he now sits in a Peruvian prison after being nbsp;for the murder of Stephany Flores nbsp;(31 May 2010). nbsp;The press has covered his story like a gruesome real live soap, with new! shocking! spectacular! developments on a weekly basis.nbsp;

Here's a picture of the babyfaced star of the soap. nbsp;NRC Handelsblad 12 June 2010. nbsp;I kept the face simple, without much colour and no background so that all attention goes to the eyes.

Fall has arrived and here's a retrospective bouquet of authors for the summer of 2010: nbsp;Bret Easton Ellis, David Mitchell, Don DeLillo, Yan Martel, Siegfried Lenz and Rolf Bauerdick. nbsp;

Robert Bolano's posthumously published novel El Tercer Reich (the Third Reich) has now been translated into Dutch. The mood of the portrait reflects the mood of the book nbsp; (Dark, spanish beach resorts, German war gamer, 1980's, WW II and a hint of fascism).nbsp;