Una in aliam – 01-09-19

cubist nude surrealist oil painting

This oil painting is based on my drawing ‘Nude – 17-06-15’. An artist often sees one thing in another. Salvador Dali saw a rhinoceros in Vermeer’s Lacemaker. I saw a horse in a women’s thigh.

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.

The Revelation of Bettie Page (2018)

surrealistic landscape oil painting

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Free Gouda! – 25-08-18

surrealistic cityscape graphite pencil drawing

I was walking on a Sunday afternoon, the last very hot one of this summer and the central square was deserted. No one was there because of the dying heat and I saw naked women dancing on it.

Royal estate ‘De Horsten’ – 02-04-18

Impressionistic treescape pastel drawing

A pastel of a treescape at Royal estate ‘De Horsten’ at Wassenaar, Netherlands. This one I did last Saturday for a group of pastel students and limited myself to appromixately 2 hours, synchronizing to the time span of the pastel workshop, in order for them to relate to a quick build-up without throwing too much details like leaves and branches.

Roundism – 26-05-17 (sold)

Cubistic nude graphite pencil drawing

During my lessons as a teacher I stell my students there is no end to perfection and one never can tell when a painting or drawing is finished.

Glass vase (2016)

Realistic vase oil painting

A quick painting I made the morning before afternoon’s workshop ‘painting glass’.

The chase – 20-09-16 (sold)

surrealistic graphite pencil drawing

This one is based on the swimming pool full of optical illusions at Museum ‘Voorlinden’ at Wassenaar, The Netherlands.

Vlaardingen 14-09-16 (sold)

cubistic cityscape graphite pencil drawing

The town of Vlaardingen (near Rotterdam) depicted in roundish forms. This is a view on the harbour in the center with the ‘Grote Kerk’ (‘Big Church’) at the background.