Arendsdorp – 17-05-24
This graphite pencil drawing ‘Arendsdorp – 17-05-24’ an attempt to capture intertwining foliage. it was a lot of fun searching for a good result.
This graphite pencil drawing ‘Arendsdorp – 17-05-24’ an attempt to capture intertwining foliage. it was a lot of fun searching for a good result.
This graphite pencil drawing ‘Mariahoeve – 03-05-24’ is my next landscape sketch after ‘Den Haag – Nassaulaan – 01-05-24’. This time it’s my own neighborhood.
This graphite pencil drawing ‘Den Haag – Nassaulaan – 01-05-24’ is a bit of impressionism. For no particular reason I always associate this season with impressionist paintings and drawings of landscapes.
This graphite pencil drawing ‘Den Haag – 09-02-24’ is my first one this year.
This graphite pencil drawing ‘Den Haag – Nieuwe Kerk – 28-05-23’ takes me back to my present residence.
This graphite pencil drawing ‘Den Haag – Lange Voorhout – 15-05-23’ depicts a beautiful spot in the heart of the city.
This graphite pencil drawing Park Hoog Oostduin – 14-09-22 follows directly after Het Sterrenbos – 12-09-22. Suddenly I found myself embracing the love for drawing trees again.
This graphite pencil drawing ‘Estate ‘Reigersbergen’ – 16-05-20’ is a bit of impression, executed in my hatched strokes style.
A unique situation: everybody all around the world at home and as to me: I got nothing to do except for painting and sketching but hey that is what we artists do all the time.
At the front my flat overlooks a great cityscape of The Hague, Netherlands, where I live. Already used as a styled (roundism) background in my oil painting ‘The Madonna of The Hague (2015)’ I decided to do a small sketch of the same view, now enriched with some extra high buildings like ‘New Babylon’ in the city centre.
When I came back from Clingendael I took my favorite way back home through ‘estate Reigersbergen’.
The Laakmolen is an ancient mill already painted by Vincent van Gogh and it is hidden from plain sight nowadays.
The reference picture I used I took last year at the brink of spring.
The Nieuwe Veenmolen, dating back from 1652, is situated nearby to where I live.
When I ride my bike through The Hague Forest (Haagse Bos) just around the corner I see only beauty.
A drawing of the ‘Nieuwe Veenmolen’ (MIll ‘Nieuwe Veen’) at The Hague, a place around the corner from where I live.
Berlage’s kiosk (at The Hague) – 22-06-17 (sold)
Situated in the heart of The Hague (Den Haag) next to the Tweede Kamer (dutch Parliament). I wanted to break up the scene into circles, planes and triangles.
A cubistic view on a bridge over the Hooigracht at The Hague, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.
View at the outer side of the Inner Court (the dutch parliament) and the Court’s Pond (de Hofvijver) at The Hague, Netherlands.
Sometimes they roam about the streets of beach town Scheveningen, part of The Hague, at the North Sea.
Part of the roundism series. The Hague Forest (Haagse Bos) is around the corner from where I live.
The pond next to the dutch house of Parliament and the Prime Minister’s tower at the left, at The Hague, Netherlands.
The central pond at the Haagse Bos (The Hague Forest). I wanted to make the reflections look convincing even though there was plenty of figurative abstraction.
I wanted to do the dutch parliament in my roundish style without loosing the characteristics of the facade and buildings.
Part of the roundism series. The Hague Forest (Haagse Bos) is around the corner from where I live.
An impressionistic view on the Halstraat, a small street in the centre of The Hague, Netherlands. I was fascinated by the blocked in light column showing lots of depth in front and back to the church in the background.
The St. James Church (Grote of St.-Jacobskerk) is situated in The Hague and I pass it by often. Then one day the sun was bursting out of the sky.
I was intrigued by the evaporating water that seemed to pour out light.