Lorelei – 12-07-18
I always tell my students that art is about seeing one thing in another, just like tasting wine and describing it by comparing to something completely different than wine itself, like chocolate, red fruit, etc.
I always tell my students that art is about seeing one thing in another, just like tasting wine and describing it by comparing to something completely different than wine itself, like chocolate, red fruit, etc.
I was very happy with the result of my latest session with my favorite model. She showed great triangular structures and edges.
When I was visiting the Bastei, a new museum at the base of the Valkhof at Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands, my eye caught the Sint-Nicolaaskapel or better known as ‘The Carolingian Chapel’.
When I ride my bike through The Hague Forest (Haagse Bos) just around the corner I see only beauty.
I always liked Diana Ross (except for that ghaslty song ‘My Old Piano’) and when I saw a video recently I was intrigued by this shiny 80-dress oozing out glitter and glamour.
I was attracted by the musculature of the model’s back and wanted also to map this even more by emphasizing the oblique position of the torso by means of a number of strategically placed diagonals over the entire image plane.
At the time of completing this drawing The Sigg collection is on display at the Noord-Brabants Musem at ’s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands.
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.
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