Portrait of Princess Wilhelmina (Tribute to Thérèse Schwartze) – 23-08-24
This pastel drawing ‘Portrait of Princess Wilhelmina (Tribute to Thérèse Schwartze) – 23-08-24’ is something special. A homage to a great independant female artist.
Pastels
Neo Deco – 08-08-24
This pastel drawing ‘Neo Deco – 08-08-24’ is an elaboration of my graphite pencil drawing ‘Art Deco Nude – 15-08-22’. Finally in color!
Flow of Life – 18-07-24
This pastel drawing ‘Flow of Life – 18-07-24’ is a piece born from pure intuition. Inspired by a beautiful 1930s picture taken by Walter Bird.
Lulu in Space – 11-07-24
This pastel drawing ‘Lulu – 11-07-24’ depicts new adventurous endeavours celebrity moviestar Louise Brooks is about to undertake. Exit Metropolis!
Paris 24 – 04-07-24
This pastel drawing ‘Paris 24 – 04-07-24’ celebrates 100 years of art deco. I consider this the last true aesthetic artistic style human kind was able to forge.
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.
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.
Model Session – 20-04-24 – 2
This pastel drawing ‘Model Session – 20-04-24 – 1’ is the 2nd I made during this month’s session. These reclining but foreshortened positions are challenging.
Model Session – 20-04-24 – 1
This pastel drawing ‘Model Session – 20-04-24 – 1’ is the first I made during this month’s session. We had beautiful model Bo sit for us. First a sitting pose.
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.
Berg en Dal – 30-12-23
This pastel drawing ‘Berg en Dal – 30-12-23’ is the second of new pastel editions to an ever growing series.
Berg en Dal – 19-12-23
This pastel drawing ‘Berg en Dal – 19-12-23’ is an elaboration of a graphite pencil drawing from May this year.
Golden – 13-12-23
This pastel drawing ‘Golden – 13-12-23’ follows directly after my last oil painting ‘Cosmic Dance – 10-12-23’.
Melina Noëlle – 17-09-22
And then the day for a planned live model session finally arrived: drawing Melina Noëlle. She is the daughter of Guinnie who is, together with her sister Gaby, responsible for the catering in Brugman art.
Risque – 24-03-22
The first pastel drawing in the Risque series and was long overdue. At the beginning of February I started this one just to fill the time waiting for my students.
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.
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.
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.
Hatertse Vennen (Hatert Meres) – 16-05-21
It has been a while since I wandered through the Hatert Meres (Hatertse Vennen). In 2014 to be precise. Hatert Meres 09 (2014) was my last pastel of that series but there was one I made two years earlier. When I was browsing in my maps looking for the first one I suddenly found that unfinished one. It was a draft that, how promising it was colorwise, also was a bit of a bore.
Waalsdorpervlakte – 04-05-21 (sold)
Last Saturday I came across the outer edge of the Waalsdorpervlakte. By chance I was walking down a small footpath next to the International Criminal Court at The Hague, Nethelands. Suddenly there it was, the motif I was anxiously searching for that day.
Golden Night – 08-03-21
This pastel drawing Golden Night – 08-02-21 is based on a previous graphite pencil drawing Roundism 10-08-20. What I do is to browse through my collection of drawing and just pick one to execute in color.
Golden Roundism – 03-03-21
This pastel drawing ‘Golden Roundism – 03-03-21’ is based on a graphite pencil drawing ‘Roundism – 03-01-16 (sold)’. After the previous pastel ‘Golden Purple – 25-02-21’ I thought it would be fun to pull a really old one out of the drawer.
Golden Purple – 25-02-21
This pastel drawing ‘Golden Purple – 25-02-21’ is based on a previous graphite pencil drawing ‘Roundism – 14-09-19’. The latter I always liked because of its abstract quality.
Golden Cubism – 21-02-21
This pastel Golden Cubism – 21-02-21 is the first real cubist drawing in my Golden series. After my last pastel drawing Lakshmi – 16-02-21 I realized I only made pastels in my Roundism style. The last one in that style was ‘Golden Lilac – 07-02-21’. What if I would return to the initial form of cubism I employed back in 2014.
Lakshmi – 16-02-21
At last: I discovered my regular model is Lakshmi, goddess of wealth, fortune, love, beauty, joy and prosperity.
