Hélène 2 – session 09-01-16
An expressionistic approach to live model sketching with one of my favorite models – done at Voorburg. Netherlands.
Pastels
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.
Roundism – 06-10-14 (sold)
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.
A 4th tribute to Bettie Page – 16-09-14
Bettie Page became a sweet taste in my mouth so I rendered her in pastel in reds and greens.
Estate Oosterbeek – 15-07-14 (sold)
A realistic / impressionistic pastel drawing of estate ‘Oosterbeek’, at The Hague, Netherlands.
Mill ‘De Vlieger’ – 09-06-14
I was inspired by Mondriaan’s orange mill when I did this piece. I executed it in quite expressionistic colours.
Satin – 31-03-14 (2014) – prestudy
A study after the glow of satin. The women at The Hague Market looked very surprized when I asked for 5 mtr of her finest pink satin. One does everything for art.
The Hague Forest 2 (2014)
A pastel drawing at estate ‘Reigersbergen’ near the ‘Haagse Bos’ (The Hague Forest) in an impressionistic way.Pastel drawing on Canson Mi-Teintes Touch paper (47 x 62 x 0.1 cm).
Hatertse Vennen (Hatert Meres) 09 (2014)
An impressionistic pastel of the sun setting through the trees at the Hatertse Vennen (Hatert Meres), Gelderland, Nederland.
Hatert Meres (Hatertse Vennen) 08 (2014)
Scenery at the Hatert Meres between Nijmegen and Overasselt, Gelderland, Nederland.
Hatert Meres (Hatertse Vennen) 07 (2014) (sold)
The Hatert Meres near Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands at their best – marches, meres and trees.
Elementary Particles (2014) (sold)
An early very abstract cubist pastel that I like to do. The planes look so scatteered that I decided to call it ‘elementary particles’. It’s in Quatar now bought by a private collector.
Flowering Trees (2014) (sold)
Longing for spring makes me post this one. I closely studied Camille Pisarro and saw leaves, blossom transcending into the negative space around it very gradually.
Royal Estate ‘De Horsten’ (2014) (sold)
Pastel drawing of the main canal at royal estate ‘De Horsten’, near Wassenaar, Netherlands. It’s owned by a Chinese collector now.
