Cubistic nude (01) (prestudy) (2013)

cubistic nude pastel drawing

This is the prestudy for ‘Cubistic nude 01 (2013)’ on pastel. I used velours paper and Schmincke pastels so I could fill up planes easily and make a swift progression, keeping up with the ideas that I feared would be lost if I would set it up to slowly.

Portrait of a lady (2012) (sold)

Impressionistic portrait of Nicole Kidman pastel pencil drawing

It’s not that often that I like to finedetail a drawing but in the case of portraying Nicole Kidman I liked to see how far I could push my own style of hatched strokes with my Derwent pastel pencils (I hardly use).

l’Odalisque (2012)

realistic nude pastel drawing

Many have painted a l’Odalisque but this one is based on a photo by Eugène Durieu (1850’s). I thought even Delacroix used this picture as a reference photo.

Cubistic woman (2011)

cubistic nude oil painting

A mixture between expressionism, pointillism and cubism, done by strong complementary constrasts.

Cubistic woman (2010)

Cubistic nude oil painting

This oil painting ‘Cubist Woman (2010) probably is the first painting I made in this style. However, it looks more like stained glass than cubism, I think.

Reims (2009)

Surrealistic portrait oil painting

A surrealistic piece of a former girlfriend from Reims.

papaya (2008) (sold)

Surrealist still life oil painting

A still life in which I tried to combine cubism and realism in such respect that the cubistic papaya would be looking realistic as well.