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).

Hakata Bay – 29-06-15 (sold)

Surrealistic seascape oil painting

A commissioned piece representing the battle of Bun’ei near Hakata Bay, where Samurai try to stop the Mongols in the year 1274.

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

cubistic portrait oil painting of Louise Brooks

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

Marilyn Monroe (2014)

cubistic portrait oil painting of Marilyn Monroe

Moviestar Marilyn Monroe in oil and cubism. I chosed a fairly unknown / at least not iconic picture of her.

Abstract Fruits (2013)

cubistic still life oil painting

A search for capturing a still life in my kind of cubism. For this one I looked closely to Cézanne.

Autumn tree at Laren (2013) (sold)

impressionistic treescape oil painting

Museum at Laren, Noord-Holland, Netherlands, I walk by this tree. In spring and in fall it shows magnificent colours. It is not always that I paint impressionistically but this tree was worth doing it.

The Ooij polder (2013)

pointillistic landscape oil painting

A pointillistic view on The Ooij Polder, an area between the German border and Nijmegen, the place where I grew up.