Roundism – 2018-01-11 (Sold)
Of late I use models lubed with a lot of oil, just like this art deco-style photograph, in order to obtain great highlights, lovely midtones and smashing darker tones, all divided by abrupt threashold values.
Roundism – 2018-01-18
Based on my previous graphite drawing ‘Roundism – 11-01-18’ I made this one in pastel, allowing me to study the female body covered in oil.
Sans Titre – 2018-01-05 (Vivian Leigh) (Sold)
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.
Symfonie Orkest Nijmegen @ Stevenskerk – 01-01-18 (sold)
The 26th of December 2017 I was attending a concert by the Symfonie Orkest Nijmegen in the Stevenskerk at Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands.
Roundism – 2017-12-25 (Sold)
My latest adventure in the roundism style.
Oude Kerk (The Old Church) at Voorburg – 2017-12-15
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 – 2017-11-11 (Sold)
Working again with my favourite model I took bodyscapes of her and saw limbs running back on the canvas apparently deattached from the body.
Marijke Akkers-Kersten – 06-11-17 (sold)
Some time ago my mother and I visited the Mauritshuis at The Hague, Netherlands, in order to show the neighbor’s girl around all the goodies of Vermeer and Rembrandt.
Dordrecht – 2017-12-07
A couple of weeks back I was going to the Jongkind exhibition at the Dordrechtse Museum at Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands and I decided to go on a short detour across the city which I visit almost two decades ago for the last time.
The sheik of Araby – 2017 -10-15
This graphite pencil drawing ‘The Sheik of Araby – 15-10-17’ is in honor of moviestar Rudolph Valentino. Originally a jazz song, now an artwork.
