The Rebel

... but deep in his heart he was a rebel ...

Enhanced version of the sketch in the previous post with some digital colour added.

Ink pen
Paper
21 x 14,8 cm

Le Liseur - The Reader

Quick sketch, revisiting the reader-motif I did in a previous post.

Ink pen
Paper
21 x 14,8 cm

An Armchair Story (study)

Quick sketch, more or less meant as an underpainting. Coming back to it, I found it had enough life in it to capture it in this stage.

Acrylic
Canvas
30 x 30 cm

An Armchair Story

Quick contour/continuous line drawing.

Ink pen
Grained paper
17,8 x 11,4 cm

Liseur Continu

Quick contour/continuous line drawing roughly based on one of many appealing (Paris) street photography works by Olivier Ripoll.

Ink pen
Grained paper
21 x 14,8 cm

Dans le Métro - La Liseuse

Quick sketch roughly based on a photo of a daily life scene in the Paris metro I came across on the internet. Ink pen, wax pastel on grained paper (21 x 21 cm). Snelle schets met inktpen en waspastels van een dagelijks tafereel in de Parijse metro.

Colour theory, cold-warm contrast

Life drawing and painting, focused on achieving depth or accentuation through colour, in particular the use of cold-warm contrast. The result is very much unfinished. Acrylic on paper. At home I did a quick iPad-sketch (Brushes App) of the same subject from memory. Portret & model-tekenen/schilderen, gericht op diepte- of accentwerking door middel van kleur, met name koud-warm contrast.

Margarita

Sketch with wax pastel. I set out to do a LIM sketch, but it turned out differently. Portrait for Julia Kay's Portrait Party on Flickr. Schets met Neocolor II waspastels. Portret voor Julia Kay's Portrait Party op Flickr.

Scrap paper sketches

Some more quick scrap paper sketches. They rather appealed to me, so I decided to keep them and post them. The person portrayed is Margarita, a member of Julia Kay's Portrait Party on Flickr. Deze snelle kladschetsen spraken me wel aan en besloot ze te houden en ook te posten. De geportretteerde persoon is een lid van Julia Kay's Portrait Party op Flickr.

Green earth technique

Life drawing and painting, introduction to the "green earth technique" in portrait and model painting, an old technique especially used to get lively flesh tones. Starting with an underpainting in green earth colour (mixed only with white and black for different shades of green) the painting is then completed using thin layers of transparent earth colours (we used ochre, burnt sienna, raw ombre). Unfortunately time was too short to actually finish them, but the results give an impression of what can be achieved with this technique. Acrylic on paper. Portret & model-tekenen/schilderen, kennismaking met de "groene aarde techniek", een oude techniek vooral gebruikt voor het bewerkstelligen van levendige huidtinten.