Welcome,
On these pages you will learn more about our home based company, Aeronaut bvba, run by my wife and me.
We are active in art, illustration, graphic design, ceramics and music.
Art & design, a little history...
I started as an airbrush illustrator and custom paint artist and worked for several years in TRIAS illustration studio in Antwerp, while doing freelance work and custom painting on cars and motorbikes at home.
I won several awards for my custom airbrush work on cars and motorbikes.
In 1996 I left the studio and started on my own as a freelance illustrator and designer. In that time, most of my work was hand drawn and painted illustrations, mainly for Disney and their licensees.
A lot has changed since then, and most of our work is now done on the computer using Macs, Wacom Cintiq, Adobe software, Painter, and other software. Working on the computer has become faster and easier to edit than traditional painting on cardboard.
Nowadays we do almost everything like illustration, painting, photo retouching, logo design, packaging design, product design, cd cover design, etc...
Clients we work for are Disney, Frajodis, Studio 100, Tupperware, Panda, Tribeco, Donau Design, Lotus Bakeries, Mediamind, Nicotoy, Carta Mundi, Adimex, etc...
Ceramics
My wife, Karin Wauters is also a professional ceramist with over 20 years of experience in that field.
Music
Since a few years I took up music again. I have loved music all my life and I played keyboards in a few obscure and long forgotten bands in the 70’s and 80’s.
I played around a bit with 4-tracks and played the piano at home.
The rise of powerful computers and sophisticated DAWs finally brought an affordable music studio to our homes. So now finally I can make the music that I want.
In 2008 the first EP “Dreams Are Buried Here...”, a collaboration project with Achim Wierschem (Mindmovie - Germany) and Robin Thomas Quinn (Artie Q - USA), was released on iTunes and other major download stores.
In 2009 I plan to release my first full album with music from my "Songs of Love and Loss" and “Relics” projects.
The website will be updated regularly, please check the blog to read about recent updates.
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Jef De Corte
serenity |səˈrenitē|
noun ( pl. -ties)
the state of being calm, peaceful, and untroubled
ORIGIN late Middle English : from Old French serenite, from Latin serenitas, from serenus ‘clear, fair’
Latest news and updates:
26-12-2009 “Relics XI • Serenity” new song * * * * FREE DOWNLOAD * * * *
13-12-2009 New photo’s added to ceramics portfolio
09-12-2009 Newsletter #9
08-12-2009 Ceramics: Open Studio in December 2009 / Ceramics portfolio updated
07-11-2009 Newsletter #8
07-11-2009 "Voices of Hope" featured in VSL Podcast #53
07-11-2009 LIONSART 2009
22-10-2009 Newsletter #7
19-10-2009 “All My Dreams” - for all those days that end in shame... a new version of the song
15-09-2009 “Duisternis of Licht” - “On the wind” dutch remix version by Subliminal
14-09-2009 “Collaborations” by Artie Q
14-09-2009 Indigo, artwork for the new album by Geert Amant
14-09-2009 Autumn, a song for karin
03-08-2009 Newsletter #5
01-08-2009 Relixs X - moment of eternity online
04-07-2009 Newsletter #4
01-07-2009 Jojo Project
29-06-2009 “On the wind” Japanese version
05-05-2009 Newsletter #3
05-05-2009 “Relics IX: elegy for an abandoned dream” online
29-04-2009 Instrumental version of "On the wind" by Blue Planet and Mindmovie
17-04-2009 Second newsletter sent out.
14-04-2009 “Chislehurst Rose”: collaboration with Artie Q online.
01-04-2009 The first edition of “The Aeronaut Newsletter” online.
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Last updated: 09-12-2009