Over the years I have worked in oil, acrylic,watercolor, gouache, papercollage, tempera, pencil, charcoal and digital. I have done woodcuttings, silkpainting, claywork and fiberglass projects. Each medium works differently and each fits to a certain project.

Most of the time I have worked in acrylics because this medium dries fast and allows you to make changes easily. The impact of digital editing, however, has made it easier to work in watercolors. Making corrections on a watercolor paintings is almost impossible but with digital editing this is possible today.

The process of an illustration starts with a specific scene or subject matter. Let's say I am illustrating a garden scene with a child playing with a cat. The first thing to do is to find a specific scene. What game is the child playing? In what position is the child and what is the cat doing? Once I have decided in what position the kid and the cat is, I have to choose a perspective. Do I want to illustrate the child with the cat from a frontal perspective? Or do I choose a bird-eye perspective looking down on them from a tree? There are many options. When the perspective is clear I have to select an environment. Is this an English, French or Japanese garden? Is it winter, spring or fall? What plants are typical for this type of garden?