Hoensbroek in the snow

 

Thick packs of snow in our region, all in just one day, 20-25 cm. That was something we didn't see for a long time. I remember it from my youth, but it is probably getting rarer. Anyway, I had half an hour left this morning, and I rushed to make a snow scene on location. The Castle of Hoensbroek, as seen from my (warm and cosy) car on the parking lot. A4 toned paper, gouache paint, brushpen and black ink.

Marcel Duchamp

 

Marcel Duchamp. Even as a young boy I was fascinated by this futurist/dadaist/surrealist artist, I would devour all available books from our local library. I especially like "The bride stripped...", which I still don't understand.

Anyway, it is painted after I black and white picture I found (from the NYT). With acrylic gouache, on black toned paper, A4. It was quite complicated to translate the black and white into colour tones.

Drawing

 

Ink combined with Acrylic gouache. Based on a painting by Izumi Kogahara.

Philip Glass

 

Philip Glass, my all time favourite composer. I went to a lot of concerts with his compositions, even saw him perform his work personnaly a few times. Based on a picture from the NYT, and a youtube tutorial of Emily Hues.

Lately I tried to handle gouache, but somehow it didn't work for me. So I bought a set of high quality japanese stuff: Holbein acrylic gouache. This is my first try, so far I am really pleased how it behaves.

Roermond house

 Roermond, last saturday, with Ruud Otten.

Drawing a house, protected against the chilly wind by the wall of a shopping mall. Someone made a picture of us both; we were so concentrated we didn't even notice :)