Model – Session – 29-06-24 – 2
This pastel drawing ‘Model Session – 29-06-24 – 2’ is the second pastel I made of this beautiful model this session. Extra care for the resemblance.
Nudes
Model – Session – 29-06-24 – 1
This pastel drawing ‘Model Session – 29-06-24 – 1’ depicts again this beautiful young woman I already drew last April. A bit of a realist experiment.
Model Session – 28-05-24 – 2
This pastel drawing ‘Model Session – 28-05-24 – 2’ is the second one I made during this month’s session. The stress lies in the structures in the back.
Model Session – 28-05-24 – 1
This pastel drawing ‘Model Session – 28-05-24 – 1’ is the first one I made during this month’s session. Few dark structures, merely in white pastel.
Reclining Nude after Breitner – 27-04-24
This graphite pencil drawing ‘Reclining Nude after Breitner – 27-04-24’ is based on a photograph Breitner took himself.
Model Session – 26-03-24 – 2
This pastel drawing ‘Model Session – 26-03-24 – 2’ is the second one of a succesful live model drawing session.
Model Session – 26-03-24 – 1
This pastel drawing ‘Model Session – 26-03-24 – 1’ was the first I made during this month’s session.
Prestudy to Sitting Nude by Jacob Merkelbach – 24-03-24
This charcoal and pastel drawing ‘Prestudy to Sitting Nude by Jacob Merkelbach – 24-03-24’ is made under two hours.
Model Session – 23-01-24
This pastel drawing ‘Model Session – 23-01-24’ is the first I drew live since a long time.
Psyche & Amor – 23-05-23
This oil painting ‘Psyche & Amor – 24-05-23’ is finished finally. Long overdue I must say. It took way more time than expected.
Model Session – 06-10-22
This graphite pencil drawing ‘Model Session – 06-10-22’ stems from an earlier session. However, I had a model session with my favorite model on the 6th of October 2022.
Art Deco Nude – 11-08-22
Art Deco Nude – 11 -08-22 is my third graphite pencil drawing done with my Faber-Castell Pitt Graphite Matt pencils. A couple of days after the second but I had a busy schedule of meetings, uploading and painting of course.
Homage to Eugène Durieu’s Seated Female Nude – 02-08-22 (Sold)
Surely it is time to pay homage to Eugène Durieu, especially his photograph of a seated female nude. This time I found it was time to return to straight cubist planes after the latest anaglyphical experiment.
Ode to Tamara de Lempicka – 31-03-22
This oil is an ode to Tamara de Lempicka and why not? Since I haven’t enjoyed a formal training I had to learn directly from all great masters. Surely I consider her to be one because she developed a distinct style to call her own.
Kali – 23-03-22
Enter Kali The Destroyer. This oil is an elaboration of an earlier graphite pencil drawing ‘Roundism – 26-04-16 (sold)’.
Model Session – 14-03-22
While creating my recent series of oil paintings suddenly I felt it was time to have a new model session.
Risque – 31-01-22
Another variation in the Risque Series. After my last graphite pencil drawing ‘Risque – 22-01-22’ I was searching for something new.
Model Session with Julia – 31-12-21
Last night I had a model session with Julia. Sometimes you come across a woman you immediately fall in love with.
Tribute to Alma Tadema – 28-12-21
Time for a tribute to Lourens Alma Tadema and why not? Vermeer, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Mondriaan and De Kooning are house hold names.
Reclining Nude – 19-09-21
This reclining nude is completed two days after the last model session I held at my studio. Being the first drawing I completed after July’s session means last month’s drawing has not been completed yet. This one was relatively easy though.
Study after Eugène Durieu’s Seated Female Nude – 20-08-21
After my last drawing of Geesje Kwak I did not have many new ideas. Then I remembered I had a photo of a seated female nude by Eugène Durieu.
Binckhorst Nude – 03-08-21
At the Binckhorst I met a model who posed nude for me and a student of mine. The live model sketch was in pastel and in fact I got the taste to do some more.
Model Session – 28-07-21
Together with a student I had a lovely model session at the Binckhorst in The Hague. She invited me to come to her studio because she had a friend who wanted to sit for us. Actually the same sofa was used as for the previous model session.
Satin – 11-07-21
Of late I am exploring textures of fabrics like satin, silk and all other shining objects such as gold and silver. Two months ago I made the first one, depicting Geesje Kwak.
The Cat – 23-10-20 (sold)
A cat comes in handy when you are out of options and do not want to simply draw a pretty picture of a beautiful woman.
Model Session – 16-10-20
After my sketch of Louise Brooks – 10-10-20 I wanted to do more in my hatched strokes style. Yesterday’s model session offered me the opportunity again to draw with a live model in front of my eyes.
Clairobscur – 06-10-20
In 2013 I started this clairobscur lit nude and tucked it in one of pastel maps, only to forget about it for years and years.
Cubist Expressionism – 08-09-20
After careful considering I chose for a rendering with hatched strokes like I am used to in doing pastels and many a drawing, even though this is the first time in oil.
Roundism – 19-08-20
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Sea swimming – 30-07-20
One of those days. Sold something around midnight, did my regular things like website maintenance, teaching, eating and returning to my work in progress. Bullocks! Forgot my rucksack at the shopping mall. Back again, nowhere to be found. Lost: my mind, a drawing WIP and my camera. There you have it. Second half with your soul under your arm.
