Mat the Headsign's Original Illustrated Web Logation

Thongue Puller

2008-06-01T15:33:00.000-07:00

Grlgh!

Earth Eater

2008-06-01T15:32:00.001-07:00

I was possibly a bit influenced by a goth girl sitting across from me on the train :)

Teacher

2008-06-01T15:29:00.000-07:00

Theiy're not all like this, I know

Lovers

2008-06-01T15:26:00.000-07:00

Love is not always that way, but often one is the taker, the other the giver.

Man with pushchair

2008-06-01T15:23:00.000-07:00

A man with a child and a baby buggy waiting for a train in Brussels Central

Lou Reed & a plane crash

2008-05-27T14:02:00.001-07:00

Oh yeah, come on, call me a mythomaniac if you like, but yesterday, I swear I saw Lou Reed on the train platform in Liège while I was rushing by on the Thalys train. He was at the end of the platform- probably to avoid being molested. I know he's around here with Laurie Anderson. She gave a concert in Aachen last week, but I preferred to go and see my friends, the infamous Nazi Dogs (they're not nazis, just one of the finest punkrock acts around and our rehearsal room neighbours). But damn, I wished I could have jumped off the train. I'm usually not a fan type but Lou Reed always seemed like a nice person to meet.

Anyway that was only the journey there. On the return, from the trian window, I first saw an empty police van that was strangely positioned, then the cops who were all unbelievingly staring in the same direction. The some guys with brown and grey suits who seemed to walk aimlessly in a field- large sunglasses typical FBI or CIA type, at least in movies. Then spectators, journalists, a sports event? And finally this:

...a...plane...crash...

Yeah and this time, I've even got some fotos to underline that I'm not a complete mythomaniac.

Obviously, due to an old runway that was 500m shorter than the usual runway, that US supply plane on its way to Arabia didn't get enough thrust and crashed, leaving two pilots traumatized but safe. What a mess, but at the same time what strange beauty, especially in the evening light.

Hodie Venus

2008-05-26T14:44:00.000-07:00

I started this picture two weeks ago on the train, but she would no hold still although she was trying to get some sleep. I finished the job two weeks later.

Lukas

2008-05-26T14:42:00.000-07:00

I kind old man who lives at the nursing home where my mother resides. He has Alzheimer.

Rolling Bridge

2008-05-26T14:40:00.000-07:00

I believe this is a rolling bridge. There are quite many of these in the train station in Liège.

Air

2008-05-26T14:39:00.000-07:00

The aeration of an asian restaurant in Aachen

Thalys Seats

2008-05-26T14:37:00.000-07:00

A view from my seat on the Thalys train to Brussels.

PUNK!

2008-05-18T14:26:00.000-07:00

Drawn on the train to bussels and back.
The band's name is TSF. Can you guess why?

BEAT!

2008-05-18T02:02:00.000-07:00

Did this one yesternight while watching some cheezy thrillers.

Who wants to look at a drummer? ;)

F,L,A,W

2008-05-17T01:40:00.001-07:00

A capital L, A and W are pursuited by a capital F who wants to join their posse.
Luckily, a friendly clique of punchholed stars help them keep the unruly letter at safe distance.

Dollar Slave

2008-05-16T02:27:00.000-07:00

Actually the first of yesterday's "T&L sessions". I wasn't sure about posting this one, but it's just pure brainstorming and isn't meant to express any opinions about nothing or anything so please don't judge me ;)

Hauptmann Viktor von Totenstein

2008-05-16T02:18:00.001-07:00

Don't ask...

Still, the "Thelma & Louise sessions" :)

Angels dance

2008-05-16T02:12:00.001-07:00

Crazy brainstorming pictures I drew yesterday while watching "Thelma & Louise".

Happy Roboto

2008-05-16T02:03:00.000-07:00

"Great Crack", of course, is the irish-english meaning of "good fun"

Place Rouppe, nighttrain

2008-05-12T14:13:00.001-07:00

Place Rouppe in Brussels

A view out of the nighttrain

Houses, trees, holligans, black, red and blue

2008-05-11T14:50:00.000-07:00

I bought 2 new pentel brushes, so I drew these buildings on the train from Aachen to Brussels to try them out.

While waiting for my mother to be readied for bed at her nursing home, I started to draw those trees. I finished them while talking to her when she was in bed...

On the train back from Brussels, some young hooligans were trying to tempt me into a fight.

Train bistro girl

2008-05-05T07:20:00.000-07:00

Again, the subject was much too fast to disappear. I completed the train bistro counter and some details of the girl later on another train.

Robots

2008-05-05T07:10:00.001-07:00

I still haven't bought a Moleskine. To tell the truth, my Hahnemühle sketchbook serves me well enough and was less than half the price of a skine so I'll continue using this one and abstain from being represented on the nice skineart.com blog at least until I finished this one.

Bruxelles, Gare Centrale

2008-04-24T00:46:00.000-07:00

Brussels Central Station, an underground railway station, turn of the (last) century style. Unfortunately, it is being cheaply renewed and many of the original achitecture and style is being removed by cheap, styleless materials. Some of the brand new floor material's already chipped. Last year, the floor was still covered with the original beige and black terracotta tesselation , now it's cheap concrete plates, some of which are already chipped on the corners.

“Au Bon Bol”, Brussels

2008-04-24T00:09:00.001-07:00

A chinese place in Brussels where noodles are made on-the-spot.
In the first image, the waitress makes the noodles (she was fast and I couldn't finish).
In the second image which I made weeks later, she eats (again I couldn't finish- the boots are still only drafted).

On a train

2008-04-22T01:25:00.000-07:00

Drawn on a train. She looked so peaceful.