Punky Cows

Quick cows sketch roughly based on a photo in the newspaper. Ink pen, wax pastel on grained paper (21 x 21 cm). Snelle koeien schets met inktpen en waspastels.

Ink, reed pen/twigs

Life drawing and painting, focused on quick sketches with ink and reed pen/twigs. The charm of this technique is that compared to drawing with a fountain pen, one has far less control over the flow of the ink, leading to a broad variation in the thickness of lines and also the occasional blob of ink. Ink on paper. Portret & model-tekenen/schilderen, gericht op snelle schetsen met inkt en rietpen/twijgen.

Mailbox and Autumn Leaves

Dutch mailboxes are orange nowadays and blend in nicely with autumn colours. Quick and rough sketch of a scene in Heerlen. Ink pen, wax pastel on grained paper (21 x 21 cm). Also shown is a quick contour/continuous line drawing I did as a study on the leaflet of a local museum (Bonnefanten Museum Maastricht). It coincidentally got an autumny feel as well through the colours on the leaflet. Brievenbus en herfstbladeren. De oranje brievenbussen van PostNL passen mooi bij de herfstkleuren. Snelle schets van een Heerlens stadsgezicht met inktpen en waspastels.

Cow (watercolour study)

Another quick cow sketch, this time a watercolour study, (very) wet-in-wet with a large brush. Watercolour on grained paper (21 x 21 cm). Nog een snelle koe-schets, dit keer een aquarel studie, (zeer) nat-in-nat met een grote kwast.

Continuous line portrait sketch (George Clooney)

Another quick portrait sketch practising contour/continuous line drawing based on a photo in a newspaper (George Clooney). Snelle contour/continue lijn portret schets gebaseerd op een foto in een krant.

Continuous Cow

Quick sketch practising countour/continuous line drawing, not minding too much about anatomical correctness. Snelle contour/continue lijn schets.

Continuous line portrait sketch (Hans van de Waarsenburg)

Quick portrait sketch practising contour/continuous line drawing based on a photo in a magazine (Hans van de Waarsenburg, Dutch poet). Snelle contour/continue lijn portret schets gebaseerd op een foto in een tijdschrift (Hans van de Waarsenburg, dichter).

Coffee and Memories (Amy)

Quick and rough wax pastel sketch based on a photo and imagination, throwing in some perspective distortion as well. Wax pastel on grained paper (21 x 21 cm). Portrait for Julia Kay's Portrait Party on Flickr. Snelle schets met waspastels. Portret voor Julia Kay's Portrait Party op Flickr.

Portrait sketching in Kerkrade (Montmartre style)

For the promotion of the local art school (VAZOM) I participated as a portraiture artist in a Montmartre style street art market, offering market visitors the possibility to have a quick portrait sketch done for free. It soon became a complete portrait frenzy, with market visitors queuing up to have a portrait done (the photo above was made early on when things were still quite calm). I did a total of 22 portraits in four hours, most of them children, often spurred on by their parents. My art classmate Rene standing on the other side of the market did a total of 27 including a dog. Not directly perfect portraiture conditions, with quite lively children, many of them finding it difficult to keep a pose, sounds of whistles and horns (handed out by a market entertainer) sounding throughout the market and from time to time having to grab hold of the drawing board and easel to prevent them from being blown over by the wind. But it certainly was a very enjoyable experience.
I didn't get around to making photos of the individual portraits done at the market. Shown below are two quick sketches I did that morning of a photo that I had lying around to loosen up and get the hang of working with charcoal and conte again. (Stuart for Julia Kay's Portrait Party on Flickr). Charcoal and conte on grained paper (21 x 29,7 cm).
Portrettekenen tijdens "Montmartre op d'r Maat" in Kerkrade voor de Vrije Akademie ZOM. Een drukke middag, veel snelle (gratis) portretschetsen gedaan, voornamelijk van kinderen, samen met mede-cursist Rene.

Gathering Bales of Hay

Another quick and rough farmland scene done from memory, this time after a walk through the fields where I live. Wax pastel on grained paper (21 x 21 cm).