Bettie Page – 19-05-18
I found this great early picture of a young Bettie Page posing before her pin-up days of fame.
I found this great early picture of a young Bettie Page posing before her pin-up days of fame.
I found this great reference picture on which the model was heavily backlit, distorting her figure in the centre of it.
This is the first art statement on a drawing I wrote before completing it.
This drawing started out with the framing of a circle, being the model’s right breast.
When I saw a picture of a young Catherine Deneuve I immediately saw the potential for my roundism style.
In this drawing I tried to combine the edgy triangular bodyscapes with a circular movement of the model.
This drawing concentrates on triangular structures the female body often can show when posing in a slanted position.
Following my previous sans titre drawing this one shows more clairobscur (chiaroscuro), giving it a rather impressionistic look.
Seeing a photo of 1930s moviestar Myrna Loy reminded me of why I like this kind of photography so much.
Drawing this one I was attracted to the curvy features that allowed me to search for round forms counterbalanced by straight thin linear structures.
Eroticism and art is as old as the Venus of Millendorf but always has been shunned and embraced at the same time.
The challenge was to create maximum flow but still maintain a recognizable female figure.
Some time ago I saw two horses when I walked across a small meadow. I was on my way to Museum Singer at Laren, Noord-Holland, Netherlands. It so happened that they were standing close to my favorite tree I painted years ago (Autumn Tree at Laren).
Another attempt to capture the essence of American pin-up and model Bettie Page.
In my ever quest for roundism I was attracted to the female body’s position showing diagonals and triangles.
Recently I saw a picture of a model passing by posing a great triangular shape.
In line with my previous graphite pencil drawing ‘Roundism – 11-01-18’ I rendered the model figure with such highlighted tones as if the skin was lubed.
When I was walking across the Morspoort Bridge at Leiden I saw this incredible clouds party over Mill ‘De Put’ at the river Rijn towards the Weddesteeg across the water, where Rembrandt was born.
Of late I use models lubed with a lot of oil, just like this art deco-style photograph, in order to obtain great highlights, lovely midtones and smashing darker tones, all divided by abrupt threashold values.
A new one in the sans titre series depicting Gone with the Wind actress Vivian Leigh. I like her cool looking appearnce hiding a turmoil of complex emotions, wandering from depression, alcoholism to briljant actorship and back, ending in her death by tuberculosis.
The 26th of December 2017 I was attending a concert by the Symfonie Orkest Nijmegen in the Stevenskerk at Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands.
When I went out for a drink with an old friend at Voorburg I was a little early and standing in front of the bar looking at the Old Church (Oude Kerk or St. Martin’s Church) at Ve oorburg and was struck by the lighting from below almost setting the church ‘on fire.
A new graphite pencil drawing in the roundism series in which I experimented with deformations of body shapes with the purpose of keeping the forms as ‘open’ as possible, so all forms can breathe, flowing from one into another.
Working again with my favourite model I took bodyscapes of her and saw limbs running back on the canvas apparently deattached from the body.
Some time ago my mother and I visited the Mauritshuis at The Hague, Netherlands, in order to show the neighbor’s girl around all the goodies of Vermeer and Rembrandt.
A couple of weeks back I was going to the Jongkind exhibition at the Dordrechtse Museum at Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands and I decided to go on a short detour across the city which I visit almost two decades ago for the last time.
A drawing of the ‘Nieuwe Veenmolen’ (MIll ‘Nieuwe Veen’) at The Hague, a place around the corner from where I live.
I always love this jazz song and when listening to jazz doing my nudes in my apartment I made the connection all of a sudden, as I often do between visual art and music.
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