Pastels

Nude 13 (2013) (sol)d

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

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Nude 11 (2013)

A quick live drawing session at Studio Brugman, Voorburg, Netherlands.

Nude 10 (2013)

A quick pastel drawing that was only a little bit satisfactory.

Nude 08 (2013)

A classical piece to practise my hatched strokes on.

Nude 07 (2013)

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

Nude 06 (2013)

A classic pose done in 1 hour for instructional reasons for my students.

Nude 05 (2013)

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

Nude 04 (2013)

A pastel drawing with clairobscur as a theme.

Pastel study 03 (2013) (sold)

A study left ‘open’ quite a bit. I like it and going to do more like these one day.

Pastel study 02 (2013)

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

Pastel Study 01 (2013)

A pastel drawing with a complementary colour scheme.

Cubistic sitting nude (2013)

A cubist-like study done in a live session at Studio Brugman, Voorburg, Netherlands.

Ellen – session 13-04-13

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

Hélène – session 06-04-13

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

Henriëtte – session 23-03-13

Henriëtte Sibie at her best, at Studio Brugman (at Voorburg, Netherlands) during a live session.

Henriëtte – session 23-03-13

Drawing of Holland’s most famous model ‘Henriëtte Sibie’, done at Studio Brugman, Voorburg, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.

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Titi (2013) (sold)

A male nude (done a little bit expressionically) for a change (made at Studio Brugman, at Voorburg Netherlands).

Romy Schneider (2013)

A cubistic prestudy for an oil painting, depicting moviestar and celebrity Romy Schneider.

cubistic portrait pastel drawing of Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe (prestudy) (2013) (sold)

A prestudy of the oil painting I did later of celebrity Marilyn Monroe.

cubistic portrait pastel drawing of Louise Brooks

Louise Brooks (prestudy) (2013)

A prestudy for a painting of Louise Brooks in a cubistic style.

Cubistic nude (02) (prestudy) (2013)

Prestudy for ‘Cubistic Nude 02 (2013)’ in pastel. The oil version has some more movement than this one.

Cubistic nude (01) (prestudy) (2013)

This is the prestudy for ‘Cubistic nude 01 (2013)’ on pastel. I used velours paper and Schmincke pastels so I could fill up planes easily and make a swift progression, keeping up with the ideas that I feared would be lost if I would set it up to slowly.