by Henk ter Heide on Sunday February 21, 2010
A few months ago I promised you a story a day… and dropped of the face of the earth.
The last few months have been a bit tense.
In August, last year, I wrote a letter to the board of my company in which I accused the head of finance of embezzlement.
The board has taken the letter under advisement but hasn’t as yet taken any action to deal with the problem.
The reason being that we are a government funded business and our board members are local council members and there will be a council election in two weeks.
But for some stupid reason this head of finance apparently doesn’t know this.
He seems to think that if he can get rid of me his embezzlement won’t be investigated.
So the last few months he has tried several tricks to get rid of me.
Accused me of abusing a colleague, tried to discredit me.
Tomorrow he is going to offer me a job. Apparently a job where I’m going to get a pay rise of € 100. I know this because I received my bank statement last Friday and my salary is already € 100 up, while I haven’t yet accepted the job.
Does he really think I would be this stupid?
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by Henk ter Heide on Friday July 13, 2007
At long last we now can watch Discovery channel in Gouda. For years the local cable company held on to the principle that as long as there was one old lady who didn’t want to watch anything but the Dutch channels, cable should be as cheap as possible. So we had the Dutch channels and several home shopping channels but nothing that could raise either the fee or your interest.
One of my favorite shows on Discovery channel is the one about the Orange County Choppers shop. I like to see how those people make the most complicated and beautiful bikes.
In one of there shows they made a tribute chopper for David Mann (Wikipedia). For that bike they had an artist do a rendering of flames on the frame.
I thought doing a drawing of flames would be a nice opportunity do have another go with the pencil on pencil blending method.
Flames
In real life it’s quite a nice drawing but sadly the scanner isn’t able to pick up all the colors. The flamy part is actually three colors. Flowing from dark purple in the middle to orange/yellow at the edge.
I’ll have to come back on this drawing.
Drawing hack
In kindergarten we’ve all learned that it is something of a deadly sin to color outside of the lines. But when you adhere to that rule you might get something like the orange in my drawing Apples and pears. Not very real, is it.
If you look closely at “Flames” you could see that there are a few green patches on the edge between yellow and blue.
If your hands are steady enough to color right up to the line, by all means do. But when you’re presented with the option to either color outside of the lines or or leave some white. Draw outside of the lines. Nobody will see the mixture of colors when you do, but leave a bit of white and it will stick out like a sore thumb
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On Wagonized you’ll find drawings by France Belleville. His drawings, both with pencil and with pen, are about people, ladies (cars 
), dogs and every day items.
Today I have a second link for you. After writing about Wagonized I remembered that I had planned to give you this link to David Mann’s art.
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by Henk ter Heide on Monday June 18, 2007
I’m again on sick leave. Again.
I was working at Promen‘s branch in Cappelle aan de Ijsel but they run out of work a few weeks ago. Thinking that was temporary I took some holidays but I’ve none left and still there is no work.
Since they run out of options they pressured me to except placement at the “doorstroom afdeling” (the overflow department) in Gouda. Every department in Gouda I’ve ever worked turned out to be very chaotic and I feared that would also be the case with the Overflow department.
Truch 1th sketch
The Overflow department is the department for people for whom Promen hasn’t any work. Nothing at this department is organized. People are just placed in this room, some product is dumped in the room and people are told to fend for them selves.
Nobody knows what is expected of them so they all roam the room looking for something to do. The moment that someone has some idea of what he could do every other person in room jumps in. Resulting in a situation where ten people are doing a job that would go better when it was done by two people.
I was brought there last Wednesday and endured it for about an hour before I fled. The second day was little better and I fled after two hours. The third day I called in sick.
I’m not quit sure what will happen next. According to the agreement I have with Promen they should place me at the department in Cappelle aan de Ijsel but they don’t have work. Promen will probably claim that this are circumstances beyond there control, which isn’t actually the case. It has been known for a few years that the demand for unskilled labor would change when the European Union would open the border eastern Europe. Promen just didn’t act on this change.
I’ll just wait and see. In the mean time I can work on my drawings.
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