Here some recent personal works. I love to experiment with shape, edges and try different media. These are Pencil, watercolor and iols.
Showing posts with label painting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label painting. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 05, 2017
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Monday, February 15, 2016
Annie M.G. Schmidt
Monday, August 17, 2015
Monday, July 13, 2015
Portrait painting alla prima
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Caricature - art
From a young age I have been fascinated by the art of caricature. In art school caricatures were looked at as low art, and I wasn’t allowed to create caricatures there.
After school I got paid to do caricatures for magazines and newspapers.
Although I have always disagreed with the teachers who told me caricatures were not ‘real’ art, it is amazing how much impact their response had to how I looked at caricatures. After a while I even stopped drawing caricatures at all, because I felt I wouldn’t be taken seriously as an artist.
After school I got paid to do caricatures for magazines and newspapers.
Although I have always disagreed with the teachers who told me caricatures were not ‘real’ art, it is amazing how much impact their response had to how I looked at caricatures. After a while I even stopped drawing caricatures at all, because I felt I wouldn’t be taken seriously as an artist.
When I realised I started to have the same viewpoint on caricatures as the people who forbid me to draw them in art school, I realised something had gone very wrong. I started looking at the work of the people whose work had inspired me for so long. Caricaturists, like C.F.Payne, Paul van der Steen , David Levine, Natalie Ascencios but also painters from long ago. Then I realised there is no such thing as high art and low art. A portrait artist looks at his subject and decides what he wants to express. he chooses what he wants to emphasise, wether it is shapes, colors, textures, attitude… A painter exaggerates. he makes you look at the subject like he does, by showing this to you with his painting. Over time painters have done many portraits in many different ways.
Some of the portraits that are considered ‘high art’ by some, are not much different than how I would have loved to paint a caricature in art school
Some of the portraits that are considered ‘high art’ by some, are not much different than how I would have loved to paint a caricature in art school
Thursday, March 19, 2015
Tuesday, March 04, 2014
If you love somebody, set them free
A few years back, I drew this illustration. I liked the concept and decided to do an oil painting of it. My son was so kind to pose for me. The otriginal is 60 x 80 cm.
Monday, July 15, 2013
Plein air 'round the corner
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Gouache
Sunday, July 29, 2012
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Sunday, June 05, 2011
Plein air sketch
I placed a complete step-by-step on my tutorial blog: LINK
Sunday, January 02, 2011
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
Monday, August 02, 2010
Monday, July 19, 2010
Alice in Wonderland
The illustration could use a better storytelling concept, but gives me a good idea of the mood and illustration style I am looking for.
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Portrait sketch
Richard Schmid states in his book 'Alla Prima" (which I highly recommend to anyone who wants to learn more on painting alla prima) that you should never leave anything in your painting that you are not satisfied with. I totally agree. If you compare painting to speaking, leaving such a thing on the canvas is like mumbling, instead of spealking clearly.
Still I limited myself to one session for this sketch, especially to see which elements I overlook, when I am not revising every 'mistake'.
Most apparent are two things to me.
1. Colors. The tonality of the portrait is quite okay, yet the portrait lacks interesting play of warm and cool accents. The light areas are way too cool.
2. Point of interest. The sharp edges in his hair and his coat, take the focus away from his face. Because of this, the painting does not state clearly where the point of interest lies. This sharpness had better be placed in the glasses and his eyes instead.
I learn from this sketch that it is very important to take the time and to think about concepts like these (point of interest, composition, color, tonalities) even more, before putting the paint on the canvas. Painting happens in the mind first.
Detail for those who want to have a closer look at the brushstrokes:
Monday, June 22, 2009
The bird
Tuesday, May 05, 2009
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