
Reclining nude – 16-11-14
This graphite pencil drawing ‘Reclining Nude – 16-11-14’ depicts my regular model lying down on a couch in her home.

This graphite pencil drawing ‘Reclining Nude – 16-11-14’ depicts my regular model lying down on a couch in her home.

Another cubistic tribute to Man Ray. This one is with a private collector from the United States.

An early roundism drawing and looking for shapes stemming from the body into the negative space.

This pastel drawing ‘Reclining Nude – 10-11-14’ grew out of my first model session with my regular model. A curious mix of impressionism and expressionism.

A piece that stands on its own because I found it not to be a part of the ‘birth of new cubism series. In its sort it’s the birth of ’roundism’, sprouting from the ‘birth of new cubism’ series that survived right till this day.

Part of the ‘birth of new cubism series’. It’s now in the United States with a private collector of my works.

Part of the ‘birth of new cubism’ series. For this one I used an old photograph I suspect might be from the 1950s.

Another drawing that marks the beginning of my search for a renewal of cubism.

The first of two drawings at one day on the same theme. This one is the minimalistic cubist one.

After the start of the ‘birth of new cubism’ series I got the hang of it and sometimes made 2 drawings at one day just to give shape to my ideas.

A cubistic drawing in which I started to divide the negative space into planes by extending the dimensions of body parts to the borders of the paper.

A pastel drawing of a nude in red with only a tiny touch of yellow.

A quick sketch of an old picture I once found that I quickly sold to one of my students.

Found a pastel in the ‘garbage’ map of pastels that I found to be not very bad after all. Takes me back a couple of years when I did a lot of hatching.

A classic pastel study of a classic sort of model pose. I liked the diagonals.

This pastel drawing ‘Reclining Nude 02 (2013)’ is made during a live drawing session at Studio Brugman at Voorburg, Netherlands.

Pastel drawing from a live session at Studio Brugman at Voorburg, Netherlands.

Classic nude done in hatched strokes with only complementary colours purple and yellow.




A traditional clairobscur approach of a nude with some complementary colours to beef up the scene.


A study after extreme light from the front with a heavy use of complementary colours.


For this study I used black papier and let the core shadows on the body of the model and the cast shadows totally untouched.



A realistic pastel sketch of one of my models ‘Ellen’ at Studio Brugman, Voorburg, Netherlands.

Drew a live model at Studio Brugman, Voorburg, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.