Sans titre – 05-01-18 (sold)

cubist portrait graphite pencil drawing promotion

A new one in the sans titre series depicting Gone with the Wind actress Vivian Leigh. I like her cool looking appearnce hiding a turmoil of complex emotions, wandering from depression, alcoholism to briljant actorship and back, ending in her death by tuberculosis.

Oude Kerk (The Old Church) at Voorburg – 15-12-17

cubistic church graphite pencil drawing

When I went out for a drink with an old friend at Voorburg I was a little early and standing in front of the bar looking at the Old Church (Oude Kerk or St. Martin’s Church) at Ve oorburg and was struck by the lighting from below almost setting the church ‘on fire.

Roundism – 06-12-17

Cubistic nude pastel drawing

I was intrigued by the compact forms of the model’s body and especially by the curve of her tibia tot he instep of her foot.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Roundism – 29-11-17)

cubistic nude pastel drawing

Based on a earlier roundism graphite pencil drawing I made this pastel adding the realm of colours. I wanted the woman appear in a kind of midsummernight’s dream with lots of yellow and blues, girded with some purples and pinks.

Roundism – 24-11-17 (sold)

Cubistic nude graphite pencil drawing

A new graphite pencil drawing in the roundism series in which I experimented with deformations of body shapes with the purpose of keeping the forms as ‘open’ as possible, so all forms can breathe, flowing from one into another.

Model session 2 @ Rotterdam – 19-11-17

cubistic nude pastel dawing

Short positions at live model sketching took me back to reinvent my way rendering human bodies and together with my new found Pastelmat by Clairefontaine I was able to experiment with new ways.

Roundism – 11-11-17 (sold)

Cubistic nude graphite pencil drawing in the roundism style

Working again with my favourite model I took bodyscapes of her and saw limbs running back on the canvas apparently deattached from the body.