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Artist // Professional // Varied
  • Mar 16
  • South Africa
  • Deviant for 13 years
  • He / Him
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Hello!  My name is Willem S. van der Merwe.  I was born in 1972, Pretoria, South Africa. I started painting and drawing at the age of 5. I stopped doing that for a while to study some other fields, but recently I've been getting back into it. I love wildlife and nature, but I also paint or draw people. I also paint and draw fantasy creatures or scenes, as well as extinct animals.



For commissions, contact me here or by email:



willemsvandermerwe@gmail.com


Favourite Visual Artist
Mauritz Escher, René Magritte, Salvador Dali
Favourite Bands / Musical Artists
Nightwish, Epica, Ayreon, Sonata Arctica, The Gathering, Amberian Dawn, Pagan's Mind, Opeth, Delain, Amorphis, Lacuna Coil, Nemesea, Leave's Eyes, FLOOR JANSEN!
Favourite Writers
Douglas Adams, Isaac Asimov
Hello all! I'm excited to announce that I'm working on a little book, "The Ages of the Earth". This will be a concise overview of the history of Life on Earth, from the Precambrian to the present day. To make it a bit easy on myself, for now the illustrations will be monochrome, except for colour illustrations I've already done. But this is just to give people an idea of the phases through which life evolved, the extinction crises and the rediversification that happened after each crisis. I'm planning to post the book chapter by chapter here, with the illustrations ... will just take a bit of time to decide how to organize it. Eventually I intend to make the whole thing available as an e-book for a low price. I hope you all are as excited as I am! It's been a lot of fun for me thus far.
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I'd like to share this music video with y'all!  Kaylyn Botha is the daughter of Adri, the owner of the local art gallery that sells and promotes my work.  Kaylyn stiill has a few years of school ahead of her, but has enough talent to get a proper career in music going.  This song is very light and poppy; it's her first Afrikaans song, she mostly sings in English.
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 Here it is, my book!  This photo was taken 'in the wild' on a bird-watching trip and there were hippos nearby!  This book has 42 of my articles published on the h2g2.com site, and of course lots of paintings and also many monochrome drawings.  Lots of information, interesting little facts that few people would know, and it is easy to read.  If you'd like to get this book, you can order it here: http://www.lulu.com/shop/willem-van-der-merwe/colours-of-wildlife/paperback/product-24029708.html and here: http://www.lulu.com/shop/willem-van-der-merwe/colours-of-wildlife/hardcover/product-23953329.html
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There's something very nostalgic about the style of your illustrations. They remind me of the style used on stickers of animals or dinosaurs in the 90s.

Thank you for the watch! Have a nice day Zero

Thanks a lot! Had a great day.

You have with your loved ones a Happy Birthday and this year God fill you with blessings and happiness my friend. =P :#1: :airborne: :airborne: :airborne: :cake: :party: :party: :party: :hug: :huggle: :happybounce: :happybounce: :cake:

Thank you very much!