This is a sofar stage of a copy I am making of Rembrandt’s self-portrait as the Apostle Paul. I did a short course at The Rijksmuseum’s Teekenschool in Amsterdam. They do all kinds of art ...
Again an Artschool project, pencil and watercolour on grey paper. It does look a bit chiseled, but I like it! I’m currently working on more drawings like this one.
This is an oil painting I did quite some time ago. It’s basically a ‘dead’ painting or underpainting for a metal ball. It’s for practice. I like doing these simple, very clean, ...
This is a first watercolor sketch I made for a nude I want to do in oil paint. There will be more tests because I like to do watercolors! And it gives you more of a preview for a painting than a ...
This is a portrait I did from and for a friend of mine. It’s called ‘The Sunbather’, and it’s also a one day portrait. I practice with these portraits, to see if I can do a ...
First quick oil painting for a proper self-portrait. Using I-phone for reference does give you some lens distortion. Next image I’ll test with the Nikon, which has a portrait lens.
Second stage of an oilpainting called ‘The miracle” The idea came to me on a trip to Italy when i was visiting the excavations of Pompeï and the region around Naples.
I recently finished this painting of a Friesian stallion, based on an engraving by Albrecht Dürer dated 1503 of a trotting stallion which i saw first during a big expo of Dürer’s work in ...
Work in progress on a detail of an oilpainting i am currently making. It’s a portrait of a Friesian horse, inspired by Albrecht Dürer’s drawing of a trotting stallion which he did in 1503. ...