
Janneke – session 1 @ Studio Brugman – 18-03-17
Drawn in one of the monthly live drawing sessions at Studio Brugman, Voorburg, Netherlands.

Drawn in one of the monthly live drawing sessions at Studio Brugman, Voorburg, Netherlands.


In The Netherlands there isn’t a single artist who hasn’t sketched Henriëtte Sibie during a live session.

With her slender body Bettie Page always has been a great model to put my project ’roundism’ on wheels. There’s not a single curve in her body that doesn’t makes me go cubistic.

Another project of my roundism series.

Did this one for a Chinese collector who wanted to have a copy the same pastel from 2012 which he acquired as well. The Chinese are into realistic western art nowadays.

A work in which I combined colour saturation with complementary colour schemes.

An experiment on how to open up forms as much as possible according to my style ’roundism’. I wanted to have the model ‘breathe’ the space around her as much as possible.

The style of roundism put into colours and open spheres. I strongly looked for an overall distribution of the colour scheme so that none of the colours used would be dominant over another

This colored pencil drawing ‘Nude – 11-11-16’ is a cubist female form again. I took the inside out, the outside in from a visual perspective.

Roundism put into a complementary colour scheme. The hardest thing was to balance it all so the purple wouldn’t overwhealm the yellow.

An experiment in coloration of roundish shapes, rendered with colour pencils only.

Part of the roundism series. This one is with a private collector in the United States.

Part of the roundism series and a continuation of the search of opening up structures like a female body by connecting parts tonally.

In this piece from the roundism series I take a step further and mess about with form distortion The cuts in the body parts are more extreme than in previous drawings.

I liked the jumping quality of the model making a jump and tried to emphasize the round shapes – like the breasts and buttocks – popping out.

Part of the roundism series. This one is all about the central piece of the figure, communicating with the negative space around it.

Part of the roundism series but is marked by some kind of Man Ray photographical surrealism as well.

A drawing through which I succeeded to base my principles of my kind of cubism – roundism.

Part of the roundism series. It’s almost realistic but still to be called styled in a cubistic way.


Part of the roundism series although it has surrealistic elements as well.

A mixture of cubism, surrealism and art-deco that I made to honor Man Ray.

A surrealistic graphite pencil drawing of Bettie Page, American pin-up and 1950s celebrity.

Part of the roundism series, a continuation of the ‘birth of new cubism series’.


This graphite pencil drawing ‘Nude – 06-04-16’ is a rather realistic looking nude of my favourite model. There is some cubist styling though.

A graphite pencil drawing of my favourite model again in a slight roundistic way.

A mixture of impressionism, realism and cubism.

More of a styling really but the main theme in my ever search for a new kind of cubism these last years