Henriëtte Sibie – 21-01-17
In The Netherlands there isn’t a single artist who hasn’t sketched Henriëtte Sibie during a live session.
In The Netherlands there isn’t a single artist who hasn’t sketched Henriëtte Sibie during a live session.
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 commission to do a pet was a big challenge for me. I have never done a dog before.
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
A classic study of the female corpse in pastel. I put the stress on the high lights.
A pastel that was lingering about in my studio for years until I completed it. I went for a strong purple / yellow contrast. It’s now with a private collector in China.
This was commissioned work and the purpose was to capture sensuality and through cubist forms get the round female shapes.
An expressionistic approach to live model sketching with one of my favorite models – done at Voorburg. Netherlands.
An impressionistic approach to live model sketching with one of my favorite models – done at Voorburg. Netherlands.
I made a first draft in black and white Conté Carrés but it didn’t work. It stood in my studio for over a year pissing me off. Finallly I knew what to do and was ready to divide space through colourful planes.
Commissioned work. They wanted a portrait in a cubistic style. I used velours paper so I could make planes very easily with my Schmincke pastels.
A commission piece done in an impressionistic style with lots of clairobscur. I liked doing the blue in the hair at the left top side, showing the blue sky just outside the window.
A small park just around the corner where I sometimes wander about. I was struck by the light through the trees and the atmospheric depth.
The St. James Church (Grote of St.-Jacobskerk) is situated in The Hague and I pass it by often. Then one day the sun was bursting out of the sky.
A more cubistic pastel drawing of Meyendel, following the previous ones. I like this ones better because I dared to put the cubes through the branches so the drawing becomes fragmented.
Meyendel is a park to the north of The Hague, near Wassenaar, part dunes, part forest where I like to come often. It is marked by all kinds of trees and especially the pines I love to draw / paint.
I was attracted to the light shing through the needles of the pine, almost making them transparant and blueish rather than showing sharp contours.
A more cubistic pastel drawing of Meyendel, following the previous ones. I like this ones better because I dared to put the cubes through the branches so the drawing becomes fragmented.
Another pastel drawing I made at Meyendel in the dunes just outside The Hague. Being the first drawing after my graphite pencil drawing ‘Meyendel 2 – 12-06-14’ I wanted something different.
A somehow expressionistic kind of pastel drawing that came from a live drawing session with my favorite model.
Part of the roundism series. I once was in Amsterdam teaching for an international group of expats and we used an Italian model who posed for us like a still.
This piece stands on its own I think. Almost tainted glass-like and not really cubistic anymore, more roundism but different.
This is the pastel drawing of the prestudy I made in graphite a month before. I like the sun that sets not underneath the horizon but in a window somewhere in a cityscape.
I was hovering over my regular model and was charmed by this unusual angle. Perhaps you can forgive me when I tell you that I made the pastel from a picture I took that session because otherwise I had to keep my head upside down the whole time.
A pastel in the roundism series. I think it might be the first one. Looking back I think I was very risky with the colour scheme but I wanted to enforce the jump-like figure. It’s owned now by a private Chinese collector.
Visit my profile page on these sites
Share this post on these sites
