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.
Nudes
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
This graphite pencil drawing ‘Roundism – 19-08-20’ is walk down the path of Man Ray’s solarization and combination with cubism.
Sea swimming – 30-07-20
This pastel drawing ‘Sea Swimming – 30-07-20’ is an experiment on a new kind of paper. The pastel particles stick to the paper beautifully.
Model session – 14-05-20
These Corona days show little or no model sessions at all. However my model and I felt confident to do a new session after a long time, taking all precautions.
Model session – 31-12-19
Last day of the year and completed a work in progress I started during a live session with my regular model. With just two simple LED reading lamps I got the atmosphere right
Model session – 23-12-19
My regular model comes to visit me every month and this time I had the plan to put only two small LED light sources around her.
Model session – 23-11-19
Last Thursday 21th of November I had my regular model over again in my studio and it was a good session. I placed two led light sources next to her, creating a nice razor light over her body.
Model session – 26-09-19
Model sketching time again. My mind was occupied with many other projects but live model sketching always has priority. Whereas skecthing often is called the primary process, live model sketching I consider to be primus inter pares.
The widow of Aleppo (2019)
Drawng often is called the primary process and I like it so much, brimming over with an ocean of ideas, that I forget about transfering those ideas to the secondary stage: the canvas. There always is something to dust off and in 2017 I used ‘Nude – 03-09-15’ to work out a bigger theme, called ‘The Widow of Aleppo – 18-05-17’, after Rembrandt’s painting Jeremiah lamenting Jerusalem’s destruction. Since the war in Syria sort of came to an end but the people still suffer, I found it appropiate to do this anew but then in oil.
The artist and his model – 22-02-19 (sold)
This graphite pencil drawing ‘The Artist and His Model – 22-02-19’ celebrates the holy bond between the artist and his model. Together we create magic!
Model session – 14-02-19
Last session with my model I wanted to have her pose a little bit more risqué but counterbalance it by keeping the hatched strokes rather rough than to finepolish them into tonal matching strokes that would approach realism too much.
Nude – 02-02-19
The object was to do a pastel drawing similar to ‘model session – 17-01-19’ but to keep the hatched strokes rather wide. I also wanted to combine more complementary colour combinations in order to get a greyish look while on the other hand those hatched strokes look very saturated up close.
Model session – 17-01-19
This pastel drawing ‘Model Session – 17-01-19’ I began last Thursday. My model beautifully arranged in an Andrew Cross composition together with the folds.
Model session – 29-11-18
This evening I had a great session with my main model throughout the years. She is slender, knows what I want and shows dark skin tones, giving my the possibility to fool around with all sorts of colours.
Julia – 11-09-18
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
Model session @ Leidschendam – 14-05-18
A classic model study I did yesterday at Leidschendam, Netherlands.
Model – 01-12-17
Some months ago I started attending some drawing sessions at Rotterdam where I did short positions again.
Model session @ Rotterdam – 19-11-17 (sold)
Yesterday’s session at Rotterdam offered Gabriëlle, the model of that Sunday afternoon. She had great hip bones and was slender, thus showing great angles and triangles with her body.
Model session 2 @ Rotterdam – 19-11-17
Short positions at live model sketching took me back to reinvent my way rendering human bodies and together with my new found Pastelmat by Clairefontaine I was able to experiment with new ways.
Model session @ Rotterdam – 16-10-17
A 15 min. sketch I made yesterday during a live model session at Rotterdam.
Nude – 01-10-17
A rather loose cubistic sketch done with colour pencils. For the 4th time in a row I used the same (indian) model. Her skin allows me to use a lot of yellow which I counterbalanced with edgy purple planes.
Model – 18-09-17
A 5 min. sketch I made yesterday at a session at Rotterdam. Fun to do short positions again.
Mildred 1 – session 22-07-17
An impressionistic approach to live model sketching with one of my favorite models – done at Voorburg. Netherlands.
Into the light – 15-06-17
This pastel drawing ‘Into the Light – 15-06-17’ is something different. Enter the gloom or into the light?
Hélène – session 2 @ Studio Brugman – 20-05-17
Drawn in one of the monthly live drawing sessions at Studio Brugman, Voorburg, Netherlands.
Hélène – session 1 @ Studio Brugman – 20-05-17
Drawn in one of the monthly live drawing sessions at Studio Brugman, Voorburg, Netherlands.
Model – session 2 @ Studio Brugman – 22-04-17
Drawn in one of the monthly live drawing sessions at Studio Brugman, Voorburg, Netherlands.
Model – session 1 @ Studio Brugman – 22-04-17
Drawn in one of the monthly live drawing sessions at Studio Brugman, Voorburg, Netherlands.
