Martinus van Tee Illustration

Children's book illustration and caricatures in Cape Town and the Stellenbosch winelands by South African illustrator, Martinus van Tee

Secretary’s Day with Immaculate Events at Louisvale Stellenbosch

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I have been work­ing with Mari­eta and her team at Immac­u­late Events for about 6 years now, and it is always a joy sketch­ing car­i­ca­tures at their events.

This was the sec­ond year that I joined them for their sec­re­tary’s day func­tion where the ladies were treat­ed to incred­i­ble music, live enter­tain­ment and an amaz­ing buf­fet. 
The venue at Louis­vale is also an absolute gem in the Stel­len­bosch winelands.

I’m already look­ing for­wards to next year’s event.

Watercolour Caricatures for Wedding Place Cards

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I was com­mis­sioned by Dora and Scott to draw car­i­ca­tures from pho­tos for them to use as place card set­tings at their wed­ding recep­tion.
These car­i­ca­tures were drawn with ink and paint­ed in water­colour on water­colour paper.
I love sketch­ing at wed­dings, but I also enjoy the more pas­toral expe­ri­ence of work­ing from my stu­dio in Stel­len­bosch.

Blackboard Bungle Children’s Poem

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When­ev­er I’m dri­ving my car to an event, I’m always think­ing up poems. I often send the work in progress to my dad, the author Tinus Horn. We’ll send it back and forth each adding a line or a stan­za or swap­ping a word for a bet­ter one.
Then once we are both hap­py with the poem, I sharp­en my pen­cils, whip out the water­colours, and start draw­ing. I love the col­lab­o­ra­tion process!
I’m hop­ing to pub­lish the poems as a book.

 

Cape Town Wonderful Winter Workshop day 1

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Tra­cy Pre­to­rius from Bright Blue Trav­el Mar­ket­ing invit­ed me to sketch car­i­ca­tures of all the guests attend­ing her Trav­el Indus­try work­shop.
It was a plea­sure to work with Tra­cy and Gayle! 
Lots of laughs were had and the guests loved their car­i­ca­tures.

Digital Caricatures at The Argyle Woodstock Cape Town

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I sketched live dig­i­tal car­i­ca­tures for Verb SA at an event at The Argyle in Wood­stock ear­li­er this year. I had just bought a new Wacom Tablet and this was the per­fect oppor­tu­ni­ty to put it to the test.
I sketched 20 guests per hour!

Thanks Zaza and Peter for the book­ing!

Baby Party sketches

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As a car­i­ca­ture artist I sketch at all kinds of events, and last week­end I was asked by Wilan­di and Mar­co to sketch at the “Koek en Tee” par­ty for their 6 month old baby.

The guests were all up for a laugh, and it was nice to see a pre­vi­ous car­i­ca­ture por­trait I had sketched of Wilan­di and Mar­co framed on their wall.
Con­grats you two, and thanks for the book­ing!

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