Janneke – session 1 @ Studio Brugman – 18-03-17
Drawn in one of the monthly live drawing sessions at Studio Brugman, Voorburg, Netherlands.
Pastels
Henriëtte Sibie – 21-01-17
In The Netherlands there isn’t a single artist who hasn’t sketched Henriëtte Sibie during a live session.
Nude – 21-12-16 (sold)
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.
Binkie – 21-10-16 (sold)
A commission to do a pet was a big challenge for me. I have never done a dog before.
Nude – live drawing session 2 – 26-03-16
A mixture of impressionism, realism and cubism.
Nude – live drawing session 1 – 26-03-16
More of a styling really but the main theme in my ever search for a new kind of cubism these last years
Nude – 07-03-16
A classic study of the female corpse in pastel. I put the stress on the high lights.
Nude – 04-03-16 (sold)
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.
Pearls – 01-03-16 (sold)
This was commissioned work and the purpose was to capture sensuality and through cubist forms get the round female shapes.
Hélène 2 – session 09-01-16
An expressionistic approach to live model sketching with one of my favorite models – done at Voorburg. Netherlands.
Hélène 1 – session 09-01-16
An impressionistic approach to live model sketching with one of my favorite models – done at Voorburg. Netherlands.
Meyendel – 20-12-15 (sold)
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.
Pieternella – 18-07-15 (sold)
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.
Laura – 01-04-15 (sold)
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.
Estate ‘Oosterbeek’ – 17-03-15 (sold)
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.
St. James Church (Grote of St.-Jacobskerk) at The Hague – 10-03-15
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.
Meyendel – 27-02-15
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 – 26-02-15
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.
Meyendel – 21-02-15 (sold)
I was attracted to the light shing through the needles of the pine, almost making them transparant and blueish rather than showing sharp contours.
Meyendel – 16-02-15 (sold)
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 – 10-02-15 (sold)
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.
Reclining nude – 28-01-15
A somehow expressionistic kind of pastel drawing that came from a live drawing session with my favorite model.
Roundism – 13-01-15
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.
Carthaginian waiting for her hero’s return – 29-12-14
This piece stands on its own I think. Almost tainted glass-like and not really cubistic anymore, more roundism but different.
Impression of an Amsterdam sunset – 19-12-14 (sold)
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.
Reclining nude – 10-11-14
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.
