Drawings

cubistic cityscape graphite pencil drawing

Schiedam – 02-09-16 (sold)

A cubistic / roundism kind of style of Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.

In the dead of summer means I am in the midst of the outdoor sketching season. Although I did not complete this one on the spot the invention of the basic composition and planal distribution were done at Katendrecht, Rotterdam.

Cubsitic cityscape graphite pencil drawing

Schiedam 21-08-16

Part of a series on Schiedam, a town near Rotterdam, Netherlands, done in a cubistic / roundish style.

De Hofvijver (The Court’s Pond) – 17-08-16

View at the outer side of the Inner Court (the dutch parliament) and the Court’s Pond (de Hofvijver) at The Hague, Netherlands.

Schiedam – 11-08-16 (sold)

The town of Schiedam (near Rotterdam) depicted in roundish forms. This is a view on ‘De Kameel’ (The Camel) – a windmill (yellow bricks – hence the name) typical for Schiedam

cubistic urban graphite pencil drawing publicity

Gemeentemuseum – 05-08-16

One in the series I made of the Gemeentemuseum at The Hague, Zuid-Holland, Nederland. To honour Mondriaan I made it in a cubistic way.

Roundism – 29-07-16 (sold)

Part of the bigger roundism series and reason why I got blocked by Facebook. It had serious issues with nude at that time. Since then its policy on nudity has changed after a couples of scandals that made the press.

Bettie Page – 22-07-16

American pin-up and 1950s celebrity Bettie Page in roundish forms

Roundism – 19-07-16 (sold)

Part of the roundism series. I like doing this one because of the flow of the reflections that I turned into a kind of water waves.

cubistic portrait graphite pencil drawing

Eben Pagan – 05-08-17 (sold)

A commission for the man in the title of the work.

Roundism – 13-07-16 (sold)

Part of the roundism series. This one is with a private collector in the United States.

Roundism – 08-07-16

Part of the roundism series and a continuation of the search of opening up structures like a female body by connecting parts tonally.

Roundism – 05-07-16 (sold)

In this piece from the roundism series I take a step further and mess about with form distortion The cuts in the body parts are more extreme than in previous drawings.

Roundism – 01-07-16 (sold)

I liked the jumping quality of the model making a jump and tried to emphasize the round shapes – like the breasts and buttocks – popping out.

surrealistic landscape graphite pencil drawing

The Ooij polder – 27-06-16 (sold)

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.

Cubistic portrait graphite pencil drawing of Simone Simon

Sans titre – 18-06-16

Part of the sans titre series depicting Simone Simon, a French actress from the 1950s.

Surrealistic portrait graphite pencil drawing of Ingrid Bergman

Sans titre – 10-06-16

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)

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

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

Thermonucear goddess – 01-06-16 (sold)

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

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

Nude – 25-05-16

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

surrealistic nude graphite pencil drawing

Bettie Page – 20-05-16

Realistic pussycat graphite pencil drawing

Furia sunbathing – 16-05-16 (sold)

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.