Roundism – 26-03-19

The sheets on my duvet on which my model lay show nice checkered patterns. Her body contrasted them quite nicely and I decided to exploit this to the max.

Olympia – 22-03-19

Before last Tuesday’s model session I thought of a great pose I instructed to my model.

Voorschoten – 11-03-19

Last year I was walking through sunny Voorschoten, a town in the north to where I live.

The artist and his model – 22-02-19 (sold)

This graphite pencil drawing ‘The Artist and His Model – 22-02-19’ celebrates the holy bond between the artist and his model. Together we create magic!

5 bestialities – 19-02-19​

After my last drawing ’11 bestialities – 09-02-19’ I got the hang of it and decided to do once more.

Model session – 14-02-19

Last session with my model I wanted to have her pose a little bit more risqué but counterbalance it by keeping the hatched strokes rather rough than to finepolish them into tonal matching strokes that would approach realism too much.

11 bestial qualities – 09-02-19

One thing in another. I try to see it all the time. Sometimes I fail, another time I see more clearly.

The Peace Palace in The Hague – 04-02-19

The graphite pencil drawing ‘The Peace Pace in The Hague – 04-02-19’ shows this famous building in bold cubist strokes.

Nude – 02-02-19

The object was to do a pastel drawing similar to ‘model session – 17-01-19’ but to keep the hatched strokes rather wide. I also wanted to combine more complementary colour combinations in order to get a greyish look while on the other hand those hatched strokes look very saturated up close.

Mira (2019) (sold)

Mira (2019) (sold) A commission for a drawing of a young woman that I already painted 9 years ago. Then a teenager, now a young woman and an excellent way to study the same face grown up. Special request was it to use the same color combination as in my drawing ‘sans titre – 06-10-16’ […]