Portrait of Princess Wilhelmina (Tribute to Thérèse Schwartze) – 23-08-24
This pastel drawing ‘Portrait of Princess Wilhelmina (Tribute to Thérèse Schwartze) – 23-08-24’ is something special. A homage to a great independant female artist.
Portraits
Melina Noëlle – 26-11-22
This colored pencil drawing ‘Melina Noëlle – 19-11-22’ is a continuation of my impressionist search.
Melina Noëlle – 17-09-22
And then the day for a planned live model session finally arrived: drawing Melina Noëlle. She is the daughter of Guinnie who is, together with her sister Gaby, responsible for the catering in Brugman art.
Het Sterrenbos – 12-09-22
My graphite pencil drawings Het Sterrenbos – 12-09-22 and Clingendael – 31-08-22 belong together.
The Fabulous Burki, Lippe and Wassenaar Trio – 02-09-22
Ladies and Gentlemen, here is the legendary Fabulous Burki, Lippe and Wassenaar Trio, performing live on stage at The Stamboom! There you have it, something different. For Milko Lippe, a dear friend of mine.
Family – 25-01-22 (sold)
This graphite pencil drawing ‘Family – 25-01-22 (sold)’ is a commissioned piece, just as the last commission ‘Opa – 14-04-21 (sold)’.
Claudia – 06-12-21
Claudia is one of my talented students and she is about to turn 60 years old. Unfortunately I cannot give it to her personally because a planned surprise party is thwarted by Corona. Some luck however. The drawing will be included in a sort of liber amoricum and at first opportunity next year the party’s on for real. Anyway, I hope she likes it.
The Evelation of Julia Filament – 15-11-21
It is time for the elevation of Julia Filament. Sunday 7th November I finally met her again and we went to the Singer Laren Museum. She is a fine artist, graphic designer and great model.
Opa – 14-04-21 (Sold)
Sometimes a portrait commission comes along. This time it was the commissioneer’s opa (grandfather). Usually I am reluctant in accepting such assignments but this one was fun to do. The lighting was beautiful: full of midtones so I could study the skin folds thoroughly.
Friends – 29-07-20 (sold)
Not often is it that I depict animals with children but this one is a beautiful exception
Matthijs & Ben – 26-02-20 (sold)
This one is special. Long since they passed away only know to reappear in pastel. This one represents my uncle Ben taking care of his son Matthijs some 30 years ago.
Burgundy – 16-02-20 (sold)
And so it came to be, that I was attending to a wine tasting, organized by Jan-Wieger Eikema of the Bourgognespecialist (Burgundy specialist).
Manon – 11-10-19 (sold)
A commissionary piece. The girl has natural blonde hair, alabaster skin and blue eyes. It goes without saying that it was senseless to put her in full daylight. I let her sit for me ‘contrejour’ so the light from behind would be shattered through her blonde hair like through a prisma.
Bente – 01-10-19 (sold)
Every woman lneeds a celebration, especially when one sees a particular beautiful one like Bente.
Mira (2019) (sold)
Mira (2019) (sold) A commission for a drawing of a young woman that I already
The brown eyed girl (2018) (sold)
The brown eyed girl (2018) (sold) A commission for a classic portrait. I focused on
Ai Weiwei’s latest drink – 25-05-18 (sold)
At the time of completing this drawing The Sigg collection is on display at the Noord-Brabants Musem at ’s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands.
Wouter – 08-11-17 (sold)
A commissioned piece done in an impressionistic style with lots of clairobscur. I had to come up with a solution for depicting his pale skin hues and still rendering them too unsaturated.
Marijke Akkers-Kersten – 06-11-17 (sold)
Some time ago my mother and I visited the Mauritshuis at The Hague, Netherlands, in order to show the neighbor’s girl around all the goodies of Vermeer and Rembrandt.
Eben Pagan – 09-08-17 (sold)
A second commission for the man in the title of the work. This one is done in the style from the (my) past when I liked to combine angular planes and hatched strokes.
The green eyed girl (2017) (sold)
A commission for a classic portrait. The young girl, age 3, has beautiful green eyes (hence the title) and was very animated during the sessions, which is fun to watch but difficult to work with as an artist.
Henk Akkers – 15-02-17 (sold)
A portrait of my dad in roundistic forms. Always great to turn bushes and trees into round and abstract shapes.
Bettie Page – 16-01-17 (sold)
With her slender body Bettie Page always has been a great model to put my project ’roundism’ on wheels. There’s not a single curve in her body that doesn’t makes me go cubistic.
Roundism – 30-12-16 (tribute to Anita Ekberg) (sold)
Another project of my roundism series.
Julia Filament – 03-11-16 (sold)
I took my dear colleague Julia Filament to the Mauritshuis, where I placed her in front of ‘The Girl with the pearl earring’ by Vermeer and rendered her cubistically.
Sans titre – 25-10-16 (sold)
One from the series ‘sans titre’ depicting moviestars. This one is a tribute to Mary Pickford in some kind of cubistic roundish style.
Sans titre – 18-06-16
Part of the sans titre series depicting Simone Simon, a French actress from the 1950s.
Sans titre – 10-06-16
In my ever quest for finding styles and new ways of rendering I found myself challenged by this picture of Ingrid Bergman, famous Swedish-American moviestar and celebrity of the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s and part of the 1970s.
Thermonucear goddess – 01-06-16 (sold)
I was visiting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen at Rotterdam, Netherlands together with colleague artist Julia Filament, when she saw an artistic lamp hanging from the ceiling in front of her nose.
