Studies 05 (1985)

My sketchbook with nudes and portraits of women. Struggling to learn the trade.

Studies 04 (1985)

My sketchbook with nudes and portraits of women. Struggling to learn the trade.

Studies 03 (1985)

My sketchbook with nudes and portraits of women. Struggling to learn the trade.

Studies 02 (1985)

My sketchbook with nudes and portraits of women. Struggling to learn the trade.

Studies 01 (1985)

My sketchbook with nudes and potraits of women. Struggling to learn the trade.

Poekie (1985)

The first drawing I made of my second cat (after Miesje in the 70s). Being a calico cat I remember struggling to depict that in my drawing.

Zwanenveld (1984)

An early realistic drawing of the view from my room in Zwanenveld, Nijmegen. I remember struggling with the depiction of so many details and trying to capture the core of the view.

Gladiatores (1984)

A drawing I made at the Stedelijk Gymnasium Nijmegen in art class. Triggered by roman and greek literature I was reading back then, I became fascinated by gladiator fights.

Male model study (1984)

An early attempt to study the anatomy of a person. I remember this one to be a study for my drawing ‘Gladiatores (1984)’.

Angie Lynn (1984)

An early attempt to do realistic nudes. This one is Angie Lynn, a nude model in the 1970s and 1980s.