Leiden – 23-01-18

When I was walking across the Morspoort Bridge at Leiden I saw this incredible clouds party over Mill ‘De Put’ at the river Rijn towards the Weddesteeg across the water, where Rembrandt was born.

Roundism – 11-01-18 (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 – 18-01-18

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.

Roundism – 25-12-17 (sold)

My latest adventure in the roundism style.

Roundism – 11-11-17 (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.

The sheik of Araby – 15-10-17

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.

Roundism – 08-10-17

In this drawing I tried to play with triangles, circles and rectangulars forming the model posture. Next to this the laws of singularity as described earlier apply just very nicely.

Roundism – 28-09-17

When I looked at the hand streched out on the bed I immedately knew what to do.

I lost my contacts – 23-09-17

Last Sunday I had another photo shoot and drawing session with my favorite odel and after I saw back the photos there was only one plausible conclusion: There comes a time when you look at a naked woman and discover new things.

Roundism 04-07-17

A continuation of the same image  also used for the pastel drawing ‘Into the light – 15-06-17’.