Agnes, portrait in oils

 

Last live portrait session before the holiday. Agnes, oil paint on board, 40x50 cm. Took me about 2 hours to make. IT was a long time since I used this technique: no drawing, add painted directly and washed it out. I used water based oil paint by Talens-Cobra.

Wil, portrait

 

Live portrait session, Wil. Acrylic on paper, 50x70cm.

Jelle Portrait

 

Straight from the easel at a live portrait session. Jelle, the son of Annemiek, my art/painting teacher. I am rather pleased with the result. Hard to tell, but all strokes have a dedicated special mixed nuance of colour. And I maintained some of the background structure in the face itself. 

Acrylic on prepared Kraft paper, 60x70cm. About 2 hours work

London: Leicester square

 

Drinking coffee on a terrace. Next to us was this elderly gentleman, with a rather out-of-London accent. He was so occupied talking to his wife and friends, I managed to draw him on location without him noticing. I am proud to say, the drawing resembles.

Portrait in acrylic and charcoal

 

Life portrait session on saturday morning. Drawing with charcoal, and then watery acrylic over it. The charoal dissolves in the acrylic paint, which gives it a nice tonal quality.

Someone in Roermond

 

We visited Roermond, sat on a terrace, I saw a man staring toeards the horizon, made a quick picture and drew him at home. Pentel unktbrushes, both watertight and washed out.

Portrait watercolour pencil

 

Water colour pencil. After a picture on the internet. She was looking down, I didn't catch that enough.

Klaus Kinski

Portrait of Klaus Kinski, an actor. At least, I tried to draw him.
 

Nosferatu

 

Portrait, based on a picture of de upcoming Nosferatu movie. Willem Dafoe. Ink and watercolour.

Portrait in gouache

 

Painting in acrylic gouache. I found the picture of her on Pinterest, but it was gone before I knew who it was or who made the photograph. I used only 3 colours: white, black and carmide red.

Faces in watercolour and ink

 

An excercise in faces, at a live painting session. Two of about twelve that I made in about 2 hours. First a few strokes of wax. Then a few watercolour strokes. And after drying a minimum of lively ink lines, trying to catch the features without overdoing. Surprising enough, both images resemble Paul and Willebrord.

Faces

Some random quick sketches of faces, after pictures I found on the internet. Made during lunchbreaks Normally I go for a short walk with collegues during lunchbreak, but when it rains we stay in, and i take my sketchbook out.
 

Gouache portrait

 

Painting with acrylic gouache again. This time based on a picture I found on the internet (probably AI). In my moleskine sketchbook, size A5.

Small portrait

A small portrait in my sketchbook, after a picture, made with Holbein acrylic gouache. 15x10cm.
 

Igor Stravinsky

 

Igor Stravinsky, composer. After a B/W picture from the Internet. 

Holbein acrylic gouache on toned paper.

Portrait

Acrylic gouache on toned paper. Size A4. After a picture I found on the Internet.

Nieuwe Hateboer

On friday I usually bring my grandson Willem to swimming lessons. I sit in the canteen for a cup of coffee, there are always a few seniors meeting for an half an hour of coffee. This older woman was sitting on the table next to us.

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.

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.

Jean Rochefort

Sometimes I get so frustrated doing portraits in colour, I just go back to my default mode: ink drawings in moleskine sketchbooks. This one is from a picture of the french actor Jean Rochefort. 

I found a page: 100 pictures to use to excersise drawing/painting portraits. Good training stuff.