
Splash (2013)
An experiment in pastel to get flow without blending out with my fingers (in order to avoid ‘muddy segments’ in my pastels).

An experiment in pastel to get flow without blending out with my fingers (in order to avoid ‘muddy segments’ in my pastels).

A quick sketch of an old picture I once found that I quickly sold to one of my students.

An expressionistic way to depict the Hatert Meres near Nijmegen, Netherlands.

Trees and reflections at the Hatert Meres, Gelderland, Netherlands. I liked using purples and pinks in this one.

Found a pastel in the ‘garbage’ map of pastels that I found to be not very bad after all. Takes me back a couple of years when I did a lot of hatching.

A classic pastel study of a classic sort of model pose. I liked the diagonals.

Just like ‘Cubistic nude – 04 (2013)’ this one is featured in a daily dutch television soap although scaled down too small. I liked doing some strong stuff through a complementary mix purple / yellow.

One I did as a commission. It’s a combination of straight planes and round forms putting the stress on the model’s movements.

This one is featured in a daily dutch television soap although scaled down too small.

A very mild cubistic approach to this one. I wanted to see if a realistic view could be combined with some abstraction.

This pastel drawing ‘Hatert Meres (Hatertse Vennen) 03 (2013) (Sold)’ is in honor of a great district just below Nijmegen. Full of heather, meres and forested areas.

This pastel drawing ‘Reclining Nude 02 (2013)’ is made during a live drawing session at Studio Brugman at Voorburg, Netherlands.

Pastel drawing from a live session at Studio Brugman at Voorburg, Netherlands.

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





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


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


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

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


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


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

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

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