sketch

I often grab a book or a magazine and make sketches of the pictures in it. It is fun to do, and a great way to explore new sketching techniques and keep up my drawing skills...

Belgium

I spent the weekend in Belgium, Ardennen. The weather was beautiful, and the environment beautiful. These are a few gouache/watercolor sketches.

Moleskine gouache sketch

I lost my moleskine sketchbook some time ago. After weeks of searching and hoping to find it, I decided to forget about it and buy myself a new one.... These are my first gouache sketches in it...

Plein air pleasure

Gouache is a great medium for quick outdoor sketches. It takes less time to pack your stuff and start painting than oils, but gouache gives you the same possibility to start with transparent layers, and then move to opaque painting.

Arne let me know he went outside yesterday to paint ( see his and my outdoor sketches here ). I felt I could not stay behind, so even though the weather was rainy, I took my sketchbook and went outside for some serious sketching...
I had to be quick this time, because it started to rain soon after I started painting. Because of that I had to make desicions really fast, and focus mainly on the basics of the composition. I would have liked to stay and add a little more detail here and there, but because of the rain I had to quit.

This is Arne and I painting last sunday in 'de Hoeksche Waard' .

Watercolor

I made this watercolor to practice my understanding of value and color.The composition is very basic, and I left out most details to focus mainly on the value of the different areas.

Oil painting

Oil on linnen, 50 x 70 cm

Digital illustration

Quick sketch

This is a ten minute sketch of my neighbourhood...

sketch

Original artworks for sale

At the Graphic Collectibles website many of my original caricatures, children's book illustrations, editorial illustrations ,book covers and sketches are for sale. Check it out!

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Pauw en Witteman

Reese Witherspoon

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Kurt Russell