Clingendael – 2019-04-24

impressionistic graphite pencil drawing of a pond with swans

Wednesday (daytime) is my ‘day off’. Teaching art class is due in the evening and I have lots of time to go outdoors now spring has arrived. Estate ‘Clingendael’ is just around the corner to where I live here in The Hague and there i saw two swans swimming by.

Kethel – 22-04-19 (sold)

Surrealistic cityscape graphite pencil drawing

I was heading for Julia Filament’s exhibition on Katendrecht when I decided to take a detour through Kethel, a small encapsulated village in the north of Schiedam, near Rotterdam.

Leidschendam – 21-04-19​

impressionistic cityscape graphite pencil drawing

Today I went to Amsterdam to see Rembrandt’s etchings and on my way how I stopped in good ol’ Leidschendam at the Sluisjes where I quickly sketched this view with ‘De Peperbus’ (an old church) in the background.

Zierikzee – 16-04-19

impressionistic harbour graphite pencil drawing

The first great day of Spring has arrived and my mood for landscape painting and drawing still is growing.

Leidschendam – 11-04-19 (sold)

Cubistic cityscape graphite pencil drawing

I am in a spring kind of mood and since my last drawing I see more blossoms although real fine weather is only due for next week.

Veere – 04-04-19

cubistic cityscape graphite pencil drawing

Last weekend I was walking through Veere at Zeeland, Netherlands, a little pittoresque town. I returned to my car when I saw the sign ‘city wall tour’ and I decided to take that one and then, when I climbed onto them, I saw this great composition that reminded me of Caravaggio’s ‘Descent from the cross’, a perfect staircase composition – triangles within one big triangle.

Model session – 14-02-19

expressionistic nude pastel drawing

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.