Mira (2019) (sold)
Mira (2019) (sold) A commission for a drawing of a young woman that I already painted 9 years ago. Then a teenager, now a young woman and an excellent way to study the same face grown up. Special request was it to use the same color combination as in my drawing ‘sans titre – 06-10-16’ […]
The brown eyed girl (2018) (sold)
The brown eyed girl (2018) (sold) A commission for a classic portrait. I focused on the complexion of the beautiful young woman from indonesian and dutch origin, showing a great mixture of madder red, burnt sienna, green, purple, yellow and blue hues in her face. I decided to put the stress on the face and […]
Sans titre – 27-09-18
In this drawing I tried to capture the edgy character of U.S. actress Talullah Bankhead and still bring softness to her face.
Sans titre – 01-05-18
This is the first art statement on a drawing I wrote before completing it.
Sans titre – 21-04-18
When I saw a picture of a young Catherine Deneuve I immediately saw the potential for my roundism style.
Sans titre – 30-03-18
Following my previous sans titre drawing this one shows more clairobscur (chiaroscuro), giving it a rather impressionistic look.
Sans titre – 26-03-18 (sold)
Seeing a photo of 1930s moviestar Myrna Loy reminded me of why I like this kind of photography so much.
Sans titre – 05-01-18 (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.
Wouter – 08-11-17 (sold)
A commissioned piece done in an impressionistic style with lots of clairobscur. I had to come up with a solution for depicting his pale skin hues and still rendering them too unsaturated.
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.
