
Nieuwe Veenmolen – 23-09-18
The Nieuwe Veenmolen, dating back from 1652, is situated nearby to where I live.
The Nieuwe Veenmolen, dating back from 1652, is situated nearby to where I live.
The third drawing of Julia Gómez Avilés rendered with colour pencils. Last week I bought a great collection of Prismacolour pencils that brought me great joy using them
Once I was at the roof top of a friend of mine who held an exhibition in her home at Leischendam, looking over ‘De Sluisjes’ (the locks) in the centre.
I was walking on a Sunday afternoon, the last very hot one of this summer and the central square was deserted. No one was there because of the dying heat and I saw naked women dancing on it.
Last week I was walking in the direction of Museum Gouda to visit the exhibition ‘From Gauguin to Toorop’ when I saw this canal adjacent to the museum, opposite to the old church of Gouda.
Creation is a transformational process. I am fascinated by the thought I evoke chaos turning my graphite pencil fillings into dust and my pencil eraser into crumbles, but at the same time creating something new.
I was captured by the high lights at the top and the bottom and decided to keep the planes straight, putting the stress on the rough edged character of the figure.
In the dead of summer it is so hot here in The Hague I had double vision.
Another session with my model and I used an unusual point of view: above her and it took the challenge to capture the foreshortened shapes of her body.
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.
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