WV2310/2025

Watercolours & ecoline ink on Steinbach paper.

Yet another someone from the clan of snow panthers...

WV2387/2026

Watercolours van Gogh & Ecoline ink on Steinbach paper 27x36 cm.

"Looking back in anger

On this dirty little town

It stained your dress carved up my face

Put a wedge between our state of grace

Somethings so young and pretty

Should never be released

We place our bets we take our pick

They wind up in the belly of the beast

And when you can't get what you want

You take anything you can

So I wear this suit of beasts at night

I slip it on how come it feels so right...ETC "

SUIT OF WOLVES (excerpt) - Music & lyrics Elton John & Bernie Taupin, 1992.

WV2211/2025

Ecoline ink & coloured pencil on Steinbach paper.

"You hear it every day

'Once upon a time' they say

Once upon a time in this place

I looked and saw on your face

A smile that spoke to me in oh so many ways

The Sunday morning bells

Rang out that all was well

Sun shone across the yard

We'd rest when we worked hard

We'd take a little time off to appreciate the day

We'd get a little rain

Then the sun came out again

But a frost it's hard to fight

Once it takes hold flowers die

There's only so much you can do to keep some things alive

And love builds a garden

Grew it from the ground up

Each one of us knowing every inch of it was us

We pulled it all together

Hoping and believing

That love built this garden for the two of us to dream in..."

LOVE CAN BUILT A GARDEN - Music & lyrics Elton John & Bernie Taupin, 2011.

WV2178/2025

Watercolours and coloured pencils on Steinbach paper.

"I'm flying across the ocean and I'm soaring

Back home to the place I was born

You know that I'm flying across the mountains

And valleys, back home to the one that I love so much

Now don't blame me for feeling homesick

I have been away for such a very long, long time

Lord, you know I served once in the county jail

And I feel strong for being hungry, tired and poor

On and on, guess I was born to run

With your buttons and bows

Yeah, with your buttons and bows

Yeah, with your buttons and bows

I'm flying across the ocean and I'm soaring

Back home to the place I was born

You know that I'm flying across the mountains

And valleys, back home to the one that I love and miss

On and on, guess I was born to run

With your buttons and bows

On and on, guess I was born to run

With your buttons and bows..."

FLYING - John Baldry, 1971.

WV2392/2026

Watercolours van Gogh on Steinbach paper.

Where the mountain men are kings...

WV2416/2026

Watercolours & ecoline ink on Steinbach paper.

Number 12 of 13...

"All the weekend warriors touching down

Leaving a black stain on the sacred ground

Ready and willing to feel wild..."

RIVER MAN - Elton John & Brandi Carlile, 2025;

WV2288/2025

Watercolours and coloured pencils on Steinbach paper.

"And I dream I'm an eagle

And I dream I can spread my wings

Flying high, high, I'm a bird in the sky

I'm an eagle that rides on the breeze

High, high, what a feeling to fly

Over mountains and forests and seas

And to go anywhere that I please...."

EAGLE (excerpt) - Abba, 1978.

WV2398/2026

Watercolours van Gogh & ecoline ink on Steinbach paper 250g.

"It's midnight Cinderella

Don't you have some place to go

Some man to fill up your glass slipper

Some man to lay you down and let you know

That's a hard life Cinderella

Don't you want to run away

From a house full of ugly sisters

On a red bus to a green place

Wake up Cinderella

Hear them knocking on your door

Must be them fellas from the palace

Could be the prince has finally come to call... etc"

CINDERELLA '67 (excerpt) - Farm Dogs (Bernie Taupin), 1996

WV2133/2025

Watercolours and ink on Steinbach paper.

"Oh the press is down

And the flesh is black and white

Eager workers turning the pages

Dirty fingers touch your life

All you pretty maids

With all your charms on view

Farm the wasteground in your head now

Your sisters can't get through

Oh hey, hey, Citizen Jane

What will your sisters say

Oh they'll say ain't it a shame

After comin' such a long, long way

Citizen Jane

Now they're trading skin

And the cause is pushed away

Greedy piggies live on Fleet Street

Dealing meat out every day

Oh hey, hey, Citizen Jane

What will your sisters say

Oh they'll say ain't it a shame

After comin' such a long, long way

Citizen Jane..."

CITIZEN JANE - Music & lyrics Bernie Taupin, 1987.

WV2190/2025

Coloured pencils, watercolours & ecoline ink on Steinbach paper 27x36 cm.

The Crow, whose autonym is Apsáalooke, are Native Americans living primarily in southern Montana. Today, the Crow people have a federally recognized tribe, the Crow Tribe of Montana with an Indian reservation, the Crow Indian Reservation, located in the south-central part of the state... (wikipedia)

WV2404/2026

Coloured pencils Faber-Castell & Ecoline ink on Steinbach paper 27x36 cm.

After the book 'Eaters of the Dead' by Michael Crichton.

WV2140/2025

Watercolours van Gogh & Faber-castell colour pencils on Steinbach paper 27x36 cm.

"....

I can see your breath in the air

I got only to be aware

Have you got any secrets to share because I do

I've never saw you make a move

You've always got something to prove

What becomes my soothe

Leaves a curse on you

Can you hear the wolf?

Can you hear the wolf?

She's gonna come after you

Sink those teeth right through..."

SISTER WOLF - Honeyblood, 2016.

&

"Sister Wolf" is a reader by American author and novelist Ann Arensberg.

WV2225/2025

Coloured pencils Faber-Castell on Steinbach paper 27x36 cm,.

The Viking Age, during the Norse colonization of North America.

Vinland was a coastal region of North America explored by Vikings. Leif Erikson landed there around 1000 AD, almost five centuries before the voyages of Christopher Columbus. The name appears in the Vinland sagas, written in the early 13th century, which recount the stories of the Saga of the Greenlanders and the Saga of Erik the Red. It describes an area beyond Greenland, Helluland, and Markland. (Wikipedia)

WV1989/2024

"....

And she walked like a mystery

And she passed like summer rain

And she said "I do" like an angel

But I never knew her name

Oh the congregation gathered

But in darkness I remained

In love with the bride of a handsome man

But I never knew her name..."

I NEVER KNEW HER NAME - Music & lyrics Elton John & Bernie Taupin, 1989.

A drawing of an (unknown to me) woman in colored pencil by my father Desiré Vermeulen (1935-2022), the local artist of Werchter.

Desiré was best known for his landscapes and still lifes. He didn't draw people that often. He drew this in 1999.

WV2389/2026

Watercolours van Gogh on Steinbach paper 27x36 cm.

30 BC - Lonely in the desert... Marco Antonio where are you now?

WV1976/2024

BLUE MOVES was Elton John's first studio album that I bought in 1976 in a record store in Mechelen. All songs on this double album have been a source of inspiration for later drawings and so on over the years, such as this...

IF THERE'S A GOD IN HEAVEN (WHAT'S HE WAITING FOR)

“Torn from their families

Mothers go hungry

To feed their children

But children go hungry

There's so many big men

They're out making millions

When poverty's profits

Just blame the children

If there's a God in heaven

What's he waiting for

If He can't hear the children

Then he must see the war

But it seems to me

That he leads his lambs

To the slaughter house

And not the promised land

Dying for causes

They don't understand

We've been taking their futures

Right out of their hands

They need the handouts

To hold back the tears

There's so much crying

But so few that hear

If there's a God in heaven

Well, what's he waiting for

If there's a God in heaven

What's he waiting for? for..."

Music & lyrics by Elton John & Bernie Taupin, 1976.

WV2458/2026

Watercolours van Gogh on Steinbach aquarel paper 27x36 cm.

We've done it all before and now we're back to get some more...

WV2315/2025

Watercolours van Gogh & Ecoline ink on Steinbach paper.

"Once I had a heart cold as ice

Love to me was only for fun

I'd make a mark for each broken heart

Like notches on the butt of a gun

Once I had a trick up my sleeve

A reputation all over town

I was heartless and cold, wherever I'd go

I shot down every young boy I found

Yes I used to be a moonlight bandit

I used to be a heartbreak kid

Then I met you and the next thing I knew

There I was, oh, shot full of love

Who'd have thought that someone like you

Could take a desperado like me

But , oh, here I am, I'm as meek as a lamb

With my bleeding heart there at your feet

Yes I used to be a moonlight bandit

I used to be a heartbreak kid

Then I met you and the next thing I knew

There I was, oh, shot full of love..."

SHOT FULL OF LOVE - Juice Newton, 1981.

Coloured pencil and digital reworked, printed on canvas 40x30 cm.

"PAINT BY NUMBERS"

WV2402/2026

Coloured pencils Faber-Castell on Steinbach paper 27x36 cm, 259 g.

"....

Age is something I just left behind

In the past, far away, used to be

But you're present my Blue Wonderful

Blue Wonderful to me

Go where you want when you want to

Just don't let the wind tear you free

Stick around the light that brings you home

Don't ever hang around with the breeze...."

BLUE WONDERFUL (excerpt) - Music & lyrics Elton John & Bernie Taupin, 2016;

WV2337/2026

Coloured pencils & ecoline ink on Steinbach paper.

"The road is long and seeming without end

The days go on, I remember you my friend

And though you're gone and my heart's been emptied it seems

I'll see you in my dreams

I got the old guitar here by the bed

All your favorite records and all the books that you read

And though my soul feels like it's been split at the seams

I'll see you in my dreams

I'll see you in my dreams when all our summers have come to an end

I'll see you in my dreams, we'll meet and live and laugh again

I'll see you in my dreams, yeah around the river bend

For death is not the end

And I'll see you in my dreams..."

I'LL SEE YOU IN MY DREAMS - Bruce Springsteen, 2020.

WV2357/2026

Coloured pencils on Steinbach paper.

"

I hear the drums echoing tonight

But she hears only whispers of some quiet conversation

She's coming in twelve-thirty flight

Her moonlit wings reflect the stars that guide me towards salvation

I stopped an old man along the way

Hoping to find some old forgotten words or ancient melodies

He turned to me as if to say

"Hurry, boy, it's waiting there for you"

It's gonna take a lot to drag me away from you

There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do

I bless the rains down in Africa

Gonna take some time to do the things we never had

The wild dogs cry out in the night

As they grow restless longing for some solitary company

I know that I must do what's right

Sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti

I seek to cure what's deep inside

Frightened of this thing that I've become..."

AFRICA - Toto, 1982.

WV2368/2026

Watercolours van Gogh on Steinbach paper 27x36 cm.

"And I think of you now

As a dream that I had long ago

In a kingdom lost to time

In a forest of evening

The archer is bending a bow

And I see you bring her bread and wine

Down the legions of years

The invaders have taken this land

And bent you to their will

And the memories fade of the ancients

And all that they had

Though the magic lingers 'round you still

Oh, who would walk the stony roads of Merlin's time

And keep the watch along the borderline

And who would hear the legends passed in song and rhyme

Upon the shepherd pipes of Merlin's time..."

MERLIN'S TIME - Al Stewart, 1980.

WV2221/2025

Coloured pencils Derwent-Cumberland & Faber-Castell on Steinbach paper.

"On a bench, on the beach

Just before the sun had gone

I tried to reach you

Plain faced and falling fast

You looked so vacant like an empty shell

Whose life had passed upon the ocean

Before light shook the sky

Down by the docks I saw

The masts unfolding

Don't turn away, please understand

It's a life and a living

And a way to keep the wolves away

From hungry hands, from hungry hands

Crazy water

Takes my fishing boat on Monday morning

Dangerous dreaming

If we all believe in the things you believe you're seeing

Oh we'd never drop our nets in the crazy water, crazy water

Tangled lives, lonely wives

Shoreline widows pray

For the souls of missing whalers

Endless nights on an endless sea

Where nothing lives between us

Just the breakers on the ocean

Separating you and me

Separating you and me"

CRAZY WATER - Music & lyrics Elton John & Bernie Taupin, 1976.

WV2358/2026

Coloured pencils on Steinbach paper 27x36 cm.

"Who draws the crowd and plays so loud, baby, it's the guitar man

Who's gonna steal the show, you know, baby, it's the guitar man

He can make you love, he can make you cry

He will bring you down and he'll get you high

Somethin' keeps him goin' miles and miles a day

To find another place to play

Night after night, who treats you right, baby, it's the guitar man

Who's on the radio, you go and listen to the guitar man

Then he comes to town and you see his face

And you think you might like to take his place

Somethin' keeps him driftin' miles and miles away

Searching for the songs to play

Then you listen to the music and you like to sing along

You want to get the meaning out of each and every song

Then you find yourself a message and some words to call your own and take 'em home

He can make you love, he can get you high

He will bring you down, then he'll make, make you cry

Somethin' keeps him movin', but no one seems to know

What it is that makes him go

Then the lights begin to flicker and the sound is getting dim

The voice begins to falter and the crowds are getting thin

But he never seems to notice, he's just got to find another place to play

Fade away

Got to play...."

GUITAR MAN - BREAD, 1972.

WV2089/2025

Ecoline liquid watercolour ink painting on Steinbach paper.

"Oh, what a night

Late December, back in '63

What a very special time for me

As I remember, what a night

Oh, what a night

You know, I didn't even know her name

But I was never gonna be the same

What a lady, what a night

(Oh, what a night)

Hypnotizing, mesmerizin' me

She was everything I dreamed she'd be

Sweet surrender, what a night

And I felt a rush

Like a rolling bolt of thunder

Spinning my head around

And takin' my body under

(Oh, what a night)

Oh, I got a funny feeling

When she walked in the room

And my, as I recall

It ended much too soon

(Oh, what a night)

Why'd it take so long to see the light?

Seemed so wrong, but now it seems so right

What a lady, what a night...."

DECEMBER '63 (OH, WHAT A NIGHT) - The Four Seasons, 1975

WV2426/2026

Watercolours and ecoline ink on Steinbach paper 27x36 cm.

Inspired by the inside cover of Sylvie Kreusch's 2024 album 'Comic Trip'.

"...

Real super woman

Flying straight out of her comic strip

It's in the way she moves

Man, if she only knew

Frame bursting op

And blending in with reality

You feel the world anew

And I can feel it too

Paaw, paaw

Bang, bang

Kachaaaaw

Whem, blem

I always knew but I want to believe it now..."

COMIC TRIP (excerpts) - Sylvie Kreusch, 2024.

WV2340/2026

Ecoline ink & coloured pencils on Steinbach paper 27x36 cm.

"In the birth of a morning

In the past of a time

In the wake of December

In the time of your life

I will always remember

The space when you spoke

In between the words

We were struggling to float

But it's a deep dive learning to breathe

I don't know what you keep down there in your deepest ocean

You'll heal, eventually will leave

You are not alone when you're lonely

We all get left behind

You are not alone when you're lonely

There is nothing in the dark...."

DEEP DIVE (excerpt) - Tom Smith, 2025.

WV2235/2025

Ecoline ink & watercolours on Steinbach paper.

"All I'm after is to be on your winning side

All I need is to be turning back the tide

'Cause I care too much for the life that I lead

What you're thinking could be anybody's guess

All I'm after is the sun and the summer nights

By the seashore, don't want no more neon lights

Just the sand and the sky as the hours roll by

Ain't it funny, how the world seems to be back there in my dreams

All I see is my reflection in your wild and winsome ways

Ain't it funny, life feels different every day

All I'm after is to be the flame in your tattoo

Be the one girl who can thrill me through and through

This is just a guess but I must confess

It feels better being certain

Please excuse my truthfulness

What I'm seeing's worth believing

When you thrill me like you do

So you wonder why my feelings never fade

I think I got it made

In the evening when the rain begins to fall

That's when I wonder if you think of me at all

But you sound so sad, in your special way

Ain't it funny, life feels different with each new passing day

All I need is my reflection in your wild and windswept ways

Ain't it funny how life changes every day..."

ALL I'M AFTER - Gordon Lightfoot, 1982.

WV2438/2026

Acrylic & watercolours on Steinbach paper.

Hiiden in an abstract vision, the last of the 12 Amazons at last...

Ecoline ink on Steinbach paper 27x36 cm.

She packed her bags last night pre-flight

Zero hour six a.m.

And she's gonna be high as a kite by then

She misses the earth so much

It's lonely out in space

On such a timeless flight

All this science she doesn't understand

It's just her job five days a week

A rocket woman

And she thinks it's gonna be a long long time...

(inspired by 'Rocket Man', a song of Elton John, 1972)

WV2344/2026

Coloured pencils & ecoline ink on Steinbach paper.

"I don't want nothing

Nothing but you

Am I waiting

Looking for a new blue moon

I'm so tired waiting

Waiting for you

Am I waiting

Looking for a new blue moon

So many moons have come and gone

And none of them were blue

So many times the sun came up but

Came up without you, you, ya yoo hoo oh

You won't call me

Call me lonely

Am I waiting

Looking for a new blue moon

Someday when you hold me

Someday you may see

I was waiting

Looking for a new blue moon..."

NEW BLUE MOON - Traveling Wilbyrys, 1990.

WV2320/2025

Watercolours van Gogh & Ecoline ink on Steinbach paper.

"I never saw the end in sight; fools are kind of blind.

Thought everything was going alright, but I was running out of time.

'Cause you had one foot out the door, I swear I didn't see

But if you're really going away, here's some final words from me.

Baby, write this down, take a little note to remind you in case you didn't know,

Tell yourself I love you and I don't want you to go, write this down.

Take my words, read 'em every day, keep 'em close by, don't you let 'em fade away,

So you'll remember what I forgot to say, write this down.

I'll sign it at the bottom of the page, I'll swear under oath

'Cause every single word is true, and I think you need to know,

So use it as a bookmark, stick it on your 'frigerator door,

Hang it in a picture frame up above the mantel where you'll see it for sure.

You can find a chisel, I can find a stone.

Folks will be reading these words, long after we're gone...."

WRITE THIS DOWN - George Strait, 1999.

WV2283/2025

Coloured pencils and ecoline ink on Steinbach paper.

A white raven is a common expression for a very rare sight. A raven is normally black, but there is also an exceptionally rare white specimen.

According to the Greeks, all ravens were once white. But the sun god Apollo fell in love with Coronis. When she was pregnant, she fell in love with a mortal man. The white raven witnessed all this and came to tell Apollo. Apollo could not bear this. Angered, Apollo turned the white raven into a black raven. He killed Coronis and took the baby, Aesculapius, from her womb. (wikipedia)

WV2065/2025

Watercolour and coloured pencils on Steinbach paper

Who believes in the angel archer?

WV204/1994/2026

War for any reason whatsoever is always and everywhere reprehensible.

WV2367/2026

Watercolours van Gogh on Steinbach paper.

Story of the Lady of the White Bats... Way down in the valley tonight.

"... And tell me do I fit in the big picture

Do I have a shot at the big part

'Cause I've been up all night looking at the big picture

I've got some good lines for my big star..."

THE BIG PICTURE

Music & lyrics Elton John & Bernie Taupin, 1997

WV2345/2026

Coloured pencils on Steinbach paper.

WV2247/2025

Coloured pencils & ecoline ink on Steinbach paper.

".....

I'm giving it all in a moment or two

I'm giving it all in a moment for you

I'm giving it all, giving it, giving it, giving it

This kicking here inside makes me leave you behind

No more under the quilt to keep you warm

Your sister, I was born

You must lose me like an arrow shot into the killer storm...."

THE KICK INSIDE (excerpt) - Kate Bush, 1978.

WV2246/2025

Mix of watercolours, coloured pencils & acrylic on Steinbach paper, 27 x 36 cm.

A shieldmaiden was an independent, usually unmarried woman "who belongs to herself" and who has chosen to live as a warrior. They are frequently mentioned in Scandinavian mythology, in sagas such as the Hervarar saga and the Gesta Danorum.

According to the Nordisk familjebok, shieldmaidens also appear in the stories of other Germanic peoples: the Goths, the Cimbri, and the Marcomanni.

Examples of shieldmaidens from the sagas include Brünnhilde in the Volsunga saga, Hervor in the Hervarar saga, Brünnhilde from the Bósa saga and Herrauds, the Swedish princess Thornbjörg in Hrólfs saga Gautrekssonar, and Hed, Visna, and Veborg in the Gesta Danorum. (Wikipedia)

From a homemade drawing/painting to an AI illustration is only a small step in 2026 with ChatGpt and other AI channels.

WV2376/2026/2026

WV2359/2026

Coloured pencils & artline marker on Steinbach paper 27x36 cm.

"...

Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids

In fact it's cold as hell

And there's no one there to raise them if you did

And all this science I don't understand

It's just my job five days a week..."

ROCKET MAN (excerpt) - Music & lyrics Elton John & Bernie Taupin, 1972.

WV2400/2026

Coloured pencils Faber-Castell & Ecoline ink on Steinbach paper.

Sailor of the seven seas with her faithful black cat Felix... or the adventures of Captain Seldom-at-home.

WV1941/2024

" You wore a little cross of gold around your neck

I saw it as you flew between my reason

Like a raven in the night time when you left

I wear a chain upon my wrist that bears no name

You touched it and you wore it

And you kept it in your pillow all the same..."

HIGH-FLYING BIRD - Music & lyrics Elton John & Bernie Taupin, 1972.

WV2331/2026

Watercolours van Gogh & ecoline ink on Steinbach paper.

"Down to the banana republics, down to the tropical sun

Go the expatriated Americans hoping to find some fun

Some of them go for the sailing, called by the lure of the sea

Trying to find what is ailing living in the land of the free

Some of them are running from lovers

Leaving no forward address

Some of them are running tons of ganja

Some are running from the IRS..."

BANANA REPUBLIC (excerpt) - Jimmy Buffet, 1977.

WV2224/2025

Coloured pencils and ecoline ink on Steinbach paper 27x36 cm.

The women of the Crusades are the women who excelled in their roles during the Crusades. The role of women in the Crusades is often considered limited to domestic or illicit activities. While this is true to a certain extent, they also played an important role in activities such as armed combat in battles in the Holy Land and participated in the fighting.

Hadvide, daughter of Arnold I of Chiny, accompanied her husband Dodo de Cons, a confidant of Geoffrey of Bouillon. Both Hadvide and Dodo returned from the Crusade unharmed. (wikipedia)

WV2207/2025

Ecoline ink and coloured pencils on Steinbach paper.

"One day you'll look to see I've gone

For tomorrow may rain, so I'll follow the sun

Some day you'll know I was the one

But tomorrow may rain, so I'll follow the sun

And now the time has come

And so my love I must go

And though I lose a friend

In the end you will know, oooh

One day you'll find that I have gone

But tomorrow may rain, so I'll follow the sun

Yea, tomorrow may rain, so I'll follow the sun

And now the time has come

And so my love I must go

And though I lose a friend

In the end you'll know, oooh

One day you'll find that I have gone

But tomorrow may rain, so I'll follow the sun..."

I'LL FOLLOW THE SUN - Music & lyrics The Beatles, Lennon-McCartney, 1964.

WV2102/2025

Coloured pencils faber-castell and mixed media (acrylic) on Steinbach paper.

"Two girls in the desert

They follow the guide

They look around

They dream of a rodeo prince

Two girls in the desert

They walk on the path

They look around

They dream of a rodeo prince on a white horse

They search in their bags

They point to the mountains

They shake their hair

They talk to an old cowboy

Two girls in Arizona

Carried by waves of wind and sand

The burning of the sun

The hands stop

The night brings strange hours

The day brings new wisdom

This blanket is so heavy

A page turns..."

(inspired by 'Two Girls' by Raymond vh Groenewoud)