The return of Bettie Page – 12-08-15

cubistic nude oil painting

This is the first roundism oil painting I made of American pin-up and celebrity Bettie Page, after a first drawing I made in the beginning of 2015.

Bettie Page is one person I always admired. Not only she is sexy as hell but also because she deared to flirt with her sexuality in an era throughout the world many were prunes (and still are today).

Roundism – 02-12-14

cubistic nude oil painting

The result of so many prestudies in graphite and pastels resulted in the culmination of all efforts into this oil painting. The dimension of colour gives it an extra swirl.

Louise Brooks – 26-10-14 (Sold)

cubist celebrity portrait oil painting

This is the oil version of the prestudy in pastel of Louise Brooks, silent movies actress and flapper girl from the 1920s – 1930s.

Cubistic sitting nude (2014)

cubistic nude oil painting

vious sketchwork (the birth of new cubism). Rendering cubism in oil gives new ways of depicting the body. This one still is ‘cubism light’ and also can be considered as expres

Henriëtte (2013) (sold)

Surrealistic portrait of Henriette Sibbie oil painting

An oil painting of Henriëtte Sibie, who sits for me quite frequently, most of the times at Studio Brugman.

Cubistic nude 05 (2013) (sold)

Cubistic nude pastel drawing

One I did as a commission. It’s a combination of straight planes and round forms putting the stress on the model’s movements.

Cubist nude 02 (2013)

An abstract cubist depiction of a nude figure seen from the back, composed of interlocking geometric facets in red, pink, blue, and green, painted in oil on linen.

This oil painting ‘Cubist Nude 02 (2013) is a study after movement. Inspired by Marcel Duchamp’s ‘nu descendant un escalier No 2’.