Messy Jam

Quick and rough wax pastel sketch. Didn't like the background, so messed around with it; there definitely seems to be a limit to how much pastel messing the paper is willing to absorb. Ink pen, wax pastel on grained paper (21 x 21 cm). Snelle schets met inktpen en waspastels.

Ink and watercolour

Life drawing and painting, again focused on quick sketches with ink and reed pen/twigs, this time with the addition of watercolour tones. Ink and watercolour on paper. Model: Gaspard. Portret & model-tekenen/schilderen, gericht op snelle schetsen met inkt en rietpen/twijgen, aangevuld met aquarel.

Backstage Warm-Up

Quick and rough wax pastel sketch loosely based on a photo in a local newspaper. Ink pen, wax pastel on grained paper (21 x 21 cm). Snelle schets met inktpen en waspastels losjes gebaseerd op een foto in een lokaal weekblad.

Tearing forms, ink, reed pen/twigs

Life drawing and painting, focused on tearing forms from paper to capture mass and volume of short poses, followed by corrections and enhancement with ink and reed pen/twigs. Each pose was held for ten minutes, which consequently gave one just ten minutes to assess the pose, tear a form, paste it to a background and sketch with ink. Paper tearing forms and ink on paper. Portret & model-tekenen/schilderen, gericht op scheurvormen (massa en volume) aangevuld met inkt en rietpen/twijgen.

Sunlit Autumn Woodland (Impression)

Quick experimental (digital) sketch (iPad, Brushes App) from memory and imagniation after a sunny autumn walk through the fields and woodlands where I live, inspired by David Hockney's work that I saw a few days before, during a visit to his "A Bigger Picture" exhibition in Cologne.

Ink, reed pen/twigs and brush

Life drawing and painting, again focused on quick sketches with ink and reed pen/twigs, this time with the addition of brushwork for shadows and enhancement in general. Likeness was rather compromised for expression. Ink on paper. Portret & model-tekenen/schilderen, gericht op snelle schetsen met inkt en rietpen/twijgen en kwast.

Erica

Quick sketch based on a striking photo of Erica which she posted on Facebook earlier today and which was taken for a photo project with the theme "Colour". Ink pen, wax pastel on grained paper (21 x 21 cm). Portrait for Julia Kay's Portrait Party on Flickr. Snelle schets met inktpen en waspastels. Portret voor Julia Kay's Portrait Party op Flickr.

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.