Portrait study: Els

Life drawing and painting. Model: Els

Acrylic
Paper
70 x 50 cm

Portrait study: Els

Life drawing and painting. Model: Els

Acrylic
Paper
70 x 50 cm

Portrait study: Anke

Life drawing and painting. Model: Anke

Acrylic
Paper
70 x 50 cm

Portrait study: Anke (abstracted)

Life drawing and painting. Model: Anke

Acrylic
Canvas
50 x 60 cm

Exhibition "My Past"

This evening the group exhibition with the theme "My past" was opened in the town hall of Landgraaf. It consists of a presentation of art works created by students at the local art school (VAZOM). My entry titled "Leenhof Chapel: Childhood memories through coloured glasses" is a diptych of paintings I did in 2012 in an expressionist style of an early 17th century chapel which lies very picturesquely on top of a hill in the middle of the woods, known as the "Leenderkapel". As a child I played in its surrounding woods and in my teens I attended the secondary school built on the edge of those woods. Vanavond werd de groepsexpositie "Mijn verleden" in het raadhuis van Landgraaf. De expositie bestaat uit een presentatie van werken gemaakt door cursisten van het locale centrum voor de kunsten (Vrije Akademie ZOM). Mijn bijdrage, getiteld "Leenderkapel: Jeugdherinneringen door een gekleurde bril", is een tweeluik van schilderijen die ik in 2012 in een expressionistische stijl maakte van de "Leenderkapel", een pittoresk kapelletje op de top van een heuvel midden in een bos in Landgraaf. Als kind speelde ik in de omliggende bossen en in mijn tienerjaren ging ik naar de middelbare school die aan de bosrand was gevestigd.
(Mijn verleden, Raadhuis Landgraaf, 2.5.2014 - 9.6.2014)

Portrait Sketches (imaginary): Transparent painting on a textured underground

Series of quick abstracted (imaginary) mixed media portraits on a textured underground created with tile mortar. I started out with creating a textured layer on the paper and then tried to discover facial features in it and work from there, painting in transparent (watery) layers to let the effect of the texture show through. As the paper tends to get soaked and can start tearing, I had to stop in this stage. Perhaps I'll revisit them later.

Tile mortar, acrylic
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

Exhibition "Alphons Winters prize 2014"

This evening the first of six regional exhibitions for the biannual Alphons Winters prize was opened in the town hall of Kerkrade. I was pleased to have my entry "(Sur)Real Reflections" selected for this first round exhibition. In the upcoming weeks a selection committee will select works from the regional exhibitions for the second round final exhibition in Maastricht later this year. Vanavond werd de eerste van zes regionale tentoonstellingen voor de tweejaarlijkse Alphons Wintersprijs geopend in het raadhuis van Kerkrade. Ik was blij met de selectie van mijn inzending "(Sur)Reële Reflecties" voor deze eerste ronde tentoonstelling. In de komende weken zal een selectiecommissie werken uit de regionale tentoonstellingen selecteren voor de eindtentoonstelling in Maastricht.
(Alphons Wintersprijs 2014, Raadhuis Kerkrade, 11.4.2014 - 14.5.2014)

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

Model study: Opaque painting

Life drawing and painting, focused on opaque painting with flat and round brushes (painting in the style of Kokoschka).

Acrylic
Paper (brown)
70 x 40 cm