Into the light – 15-06-17

This pastel drawing ‘Into the Light – 15-06-17’ is something different. Enter the gloom or into the light?

Hélène – session 1 @ Studio Brugman – 20-05-17

Drawn in one of the monthly live drawing sessions at Studio Brugman, Voorburg, Netherlands.

Leiden – 27-12-16 (sold)

An impressionistic view on Leiden, where I studied. I am often fascinated my reflections in water and there are so many canals to be found over there. The movement of the water is what I put as a central theme in this drawing.

Nude – 21-12-16 (sold)

Did this one for a Chinese collector who wanted to have a copy the same pastel from 2012 which he acquired as well. The Chinese are into realistic western art nowadays.

Schoonhoven – 15-12-16

I was attracted to the cubist quality of the planes that still offer a realistic / impressionistic view on a back alley in a small town called ‘Schoonhoven’, Netherlands.

Nude – 07-12-16 (sold)

A work in which I combined colour saturation with complementary colour schemes.

Glass vase (2016)

A quick painting I made the morning before afternoon’s workshop ‘painting glass’.

Sans titre – 23-09-16

One out of the series ‘sans titre’ after the moviestar ‘Gene Tierney’ in the roundism style.

Sans titre – 10-06-16

In my ever quest for finding styles and new ways of rendering I found myself challenged by this picture of Ingrid Bergman, famous Swedish-American moviestar and celebrity of the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s and part of the 1970s.

Nude – 07-03-16

A classic study of the female corpse in pastel. I put the stress on the high lights.