The Ooij polder – 27-06-16 (sold)

surrealistic landscape graphite pencil drawing

A little pond situated in the Ooij Polder, Gelderland, Netherlands, near Nijmegen, caused me a lot of trouble. I saw human figures in the treeline and the water reflections but I had to come up with some subtlety so I wouldn’t attrack all the attention to the figures as well to the trees as a given realistic fact.

Sans titre – 10-06-16

Surrealistic portrait graphite pencil drawing of Ingrid Bergman

In my ever quest for finding styles and new ways of rendering I found myself challenged by this picture of Ingrid Bergman, famous Swedish-American moviestar and celebrity of the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s and part of the 1970s.

Nude – 07-06-16 (sold)

Cubistic nude graphite pencil drawing

Part of the roundism series. This one is all about the central piece of the figure, communicating with the negative space around it.

Nude – 03-06-16

Cubistic nude graphite pencil drawing

Part of the roundism series but is marked by some kind of Man Ray photographical surrealism as well.

Thermonucear goddess – 01-06-16 (sold)

Cubistic portrait graphite pencil drawing

I was visiting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen at Rotterdam, Netherlands together with colleague artist Julia Filament, when she saw an artistic lamp hanging from the ceiling in front of her nose.

Nude – 27-05-16

cubistic nude graphite pencil drawing

A drawing through which I succeeded to base my principles of my kind of cubism – roundism.

Nude – 25-05-16

cubist nude graphite pencil drawing

Part of the roundism series. It’s almost realistic but still to be called styled in a cubistic way.

Bettie Page – 20-05-16

surrealistic nude graphite pencil drawing

This graphite pencil drawing ‘Bettie Page – 20-05-16’ is a very special one. Absurd is another word that comes to mind when you look at it.

Furia sunbathing – 16-05-16 (sold)

Realistic pussycat graphite pencil drawing

In retrospective this is an ode to my deceased cat who died in November 2016. This is her, reclining in the sun, a couple of months earlier, when she was still going strong.