Into Thin Air - The Syndics - De staalmeesters

Rembrandt abstracted sketch

Ink, acrylic
Grained paper
21 x 21 cm

Hubbard Street 2 Diptych - Just Dance!

I was pleasantly surprised that Hubbard Street Dance Company used one of my sketches, paired up in a dyptich, for their announcement on Facebook of their European tour. On the left, Todd Rosenberg Photography’s image of Hubbard Street 2 Dancers Jules Joseph and Katie Kozulmy in action. On the right my sketch inspired by the photo as described in a previous post.

Many thanks to artist Rodney van den Beemd for sharing his sketch at right, made with ink on paper applied with a twig...
Posted by Hubbard Street Dance Chicago on Monday, 9 February 2015

Agony And The Artist (An Interpretation Of Thom)

Portrait and expression study

Acrylic
Canvas
60 x 60 cm

Agony And The Artist - The Burden Of Longing (An Interpretation Of Thom)

Acrylic
Grained paper
21 x 21 cm

Just Dance! (Hubbard Street 2)

Quick and rough figure study drawn with ink and feather inspired by Todd Rosenberg Photography’s image of Hubbard Street 2 Dancers Jules Joseph and Katie Kozul in action.

Ink
Paper
21 x 21 cm

Message En Route

Ink
Paper
30 x 24 cm

I'll Be Back - Ik kom terug (Adriaan van Dis) (2)

Portrait study loosely based on photo.
Reference photo: Cover Sir Edmund/de Volkskrant 8-11-2014, Robin de Puy

Acrylic
Canvas
60 x 50 cm

I'll Be Back - Ik kom terug (Adriaan van Dis)

Quick sketch loosely based on photo.
Reference photo: Cover Sir Edmund/de Volkskrant 8-11-2014, Robin de Puy

Pencil, acrylic
Grained paper
21 x 21 cm

In Her Dreams - Femme d'Encre

Ink
Grained paper
21 x 21 cm

The Toast: Painting on a textured underground

Abstracted mixed media (transparent) painting on a textured underground created with tile mortar. I particularly like the hand. Contemplating the in progress state.

Tile mortar, acrylic
Board
60 x 80 cm

Window Shopping: Transparent painting on a textured underground

Abstracted mixed media (transparent) painting on a textured underground created with tile mortar. Contemplating the in progress state.

Roughly based on a continuous line sketch in a previous post.

Tile mortar, acrylic
Board
80 x 60 cm

Sous la Pluie

Ink
Grained paper
21 x 13,8 cm

Trois Femmes

Another painting in the style of Christianne Knops. Again, it's more the work process of Knops that I followed rather than the style itself. It's a process of starting out drawing an abstracted figurative composition, then painting in transparent layers, here and there losing the line sketch, then, where desired, picking up the line work again not necessarily following the original composition, but often correcting or adding to it. Then again adding transparent layers etc. and also opaque patches where ever desired.

Acrylic, pastel
Canvas
50 x 60 cm

Trois Femmes

Painting in the style of Christianne Knops. It's more the work process of Knops that I followed rather than the style itself. It's a process of starting out drawing an abstracted figurative composition, then painting in transparent layers, here and there losing the line sketch, then, where desired, picking up the line work again not necessarily following the original composition, but often correcting or adding to it. Then again adding transparent layers etc. and also opaque patches where ever desired.
Composition roughly based on a quick sketch (below) I did earlier based on a photo. The painting turned out quite different.

Acrylic, pastel
Canvas
80 x 80 cm

Pencil, Ballpoint
Grained paper
21 x 21 cm

Soldes - Window Shopping

Quick contour/continuous line drawing.

Ink pen
Grained paper
21 x 14,8 cm

Old Masters At The Gallery

Quick contour/continuous line drawing roughly based on a photo in a magazine.

Ink pen
Grained paper
14,8 x 21 cm

Adieu au Soleil

Ink
Grained paper
21 x 21 cm

Femme d'Encre

Ink
Grained paper
21 x 21 cm

Femmes d'Encre

Ink
Grained paper
21 x 21 cm

Le Chat Noir

Quick and rough sketches with ink and feathers/twigs supplemented with wax pastels roughly based on a publicity photo for the "Le Chat Noir" performance by Scapino Ballet. Ink, wax pastel on grained paper (21 x 21 cm). Original photo: Leslie Humbert.