Nude – 21-12-16 (sold)

Did this one for a Chinese collector who wanted to have a copy the same pastel from 2012 which he acquired as well. The Chinese are into realistic western art nowadays.

Nude – 07-03-16

A classic study of the female corpse in pastel. I put the stress on the high lights.

Henriëtte – session 1 of 16-01-16

Just practising my view and hands.

Henriëtte – session 2 of 16-01-16

Just practising my view and hands.

Hélène 1 – session 09-01-16

An impressionistic approach to live model sketching with one of my favorite models – done at Voorburg. Netherlands.

Reclining nude – 10-11-14

I was hovering over my regular model and was charmed by this unusual angle. Perhaps you can forgive me when I tell you that I made the pastel from a picture I took that session because otherwise I had to keep my head upside down the whole time.

Flowering Trees (2014) (sold)

Longing for spring makes me post this one. I closely studied Camille Pisarro and saw leaves, blossom transcending into the negative space around it very gradually.

Utah (2014)

This one is special. Sarah Rose, a pastellist and dear colleague from the U.S. and living in Utah, once took this picture on horseback.

Nude couple (2013) (sold)

A quick sketch of an old picture I once found that I quickly sold to one of my students.

Adam & Eve – 08-05-13 (sold)

Found a pastel in the ‘garbage’ map of pastels that I found to be not very bad after all. Takes me back a couple of years when I did a lot of hatching.