Portraits
As a professional artist I mainly earn my living with the painting of portraits. Portraits are excellent studies for constant growing in the techniques of painting, I believe... from sketch to 'official portrait'.
dated 1976 until 2021
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Selfie
2021Gewoon een freehand digitale studie van mijzelf om de mogelijkheden van deze digitale techniek beter te leren kennen... (met veel spontane, 'Caribische' kleur!) Just a freehnd digital study of myself to get to know the possibilities of this digital technique better... to keep growing! (with some spontaneous'Caribbean' colours)
My process
2021The process for making of a self portrait in contemporary digital technique... with timeless, perhaps universal, painter's aproach!
Street-artist in times of Covid
2021Digital sketch of a streetportrait sketcher and painter
ATA directors
2007A commission to paint all ATA (Aruba Tourism Authorities) in one painting
Colorful skin...
2021Study of the beautiful coloured skin... with extreme hatching technique!
Fingfer excercise1
2021My experimental learning process... with a new contemporary medium!
My eye, experimental
2021Digital color experiment with my own eye...
Eye, a basic study (for portraits)
2021Random eye, that inspired me, was taken from internat and used for a freehand universal basic digital study in the simple PAINT program... With a lot of 'hidden color'...
Caribbean inspiration
2021Freehand digital study of a 'timeless' Caribbean beauty...
Richaelle (freehand study)
2021Freehand study inspired by a beauty from the Caribbean part of the Dutch Kingdom...
South American Beauty
2021A beauty I had the honor to know in my young years in Aruba
Digital experiments...
2020An experimental composition. Deepening of digital techniques that I have long been ignoring ... If the digital world is the future, I would like to be a pioneer in digital portraiture, if they prove to have a right to exist ... and this dream could become a reality!
Ranoo & sons
2020A groupportrait in sketching and mixed media commission
Paris = Romance?
2019A romantic couple in the broadest sence of the word (in Paris)
Timeless model
2019Aquarel of a timeless model of the artist painter ... with aquarel pencils as a base!
Old painter and his 'dream-model'
2018Timeless inspiration source of the old painter... Together dreams can become reality, through the Arts!?
family portrait
2017Just a family from Apeldoorn
The in-laws
2016A portrait-commission I enjoyed, but had to sweat a lot to reach this harmonic composition in my own romantic/lyrical style!
Jorritsma (excercise)
2016Mayor and president of the VNG (Union of Dutch Municipalities)
couple
2015couple RIP
a live streetpainting
2015As invited artist of the Mont Martre-like street-art activities in Dordrecht (Place D'Ary), one of the many, as 'street-painter', made paintings
Live Quickpainting
2015Quickpainting painted as live performance during Art in the parks in Apeldoorn
Live speedpainting Richaelle
2015Promising Caribbean model
Remembering
2015Remembering beloved deseased... (commission)
Study of a blonde
2014Just a good study of a blonde
Smile
2013Stuey of a face with a 'political' smile
Wiels - study
2013Study of a hero of the people in Curaçao!(Wiels)
live excercise
2013Excercise quick-sketching made live with living model...
Exotic sleeping beauty
2012An inspiring being
tired model sleeps...
2012tired model sleeps... in time and space.
Couple Mansur 1
2011A portrait painting in commission.
Couple Mansur 2
2011Commission of the family Mansur, from different points of view...
Aruban Abath family
2011Quasi-primitive composition searching for a timeless concept, in which dreams and/or memories are reflected, as good as possible, in a non-material dreamworld...
A turkish 'beauty'? (study of a model)
2011What's beauty all about? 'Packaging' or 'contents'? A timeless question... also for this model of mine who is a big fan of my Art!
Study Máxima
2010Studie Máxima, princess of Orange...
Live quicksketch
2010Quicksketch demonstration in sanguine (Bonaire). During workshop related to the Kingdom exposition in Kas di Arte. (related to 10-10-10)
The painter and his idle fancy
2010This painting of a painter together with his own inspiration, won the public prize at Place du Tertre, Atelierplein in Almere, Holland on 3 October 2010.
Helen & me
2010
Helen & me.
Created playfully during Exto forum discussions!
military man
2010Casemir, a military man who claims to be related to the Dutch house of Orange
Chairman Orange Association
2010Live painting from mr. Tonnis Wieringa, then chairman of the Orange Association in Groningen that posed at my atelier in Deventer.
Mehran portrait commission
2008Ex-president of the IMF (International Monetary Fund) in Washington, USA. Painting commission.
President Henriquez, commission Central Bank Aruba
2008Untill now I was commissioned to paint all presidents for the Central Bank of Aruba. Here mister R. Henriquez, president untill 2007.
Mask of Betico in Bronze
2008Reflecting an aruban myth with a bronze mask
Mask of Padu in clay
2007Mask of the official cultural father of Aruba
Commission Aruba Tourism Authority
2005Commissioned by the Aruba Tourism Authority I had the privilige to make one painting of all directors...
Three generations Arubans
2007Father , son and grandchild
Innocent... empty sheet
2006Water-colour study of queen Beatrix as a baby...
Jasmine in 2006
2006An attempt to capture an exotic, misterious vibration in a sketch...
Gyan
2006Son of a good friend. An Aruban boy of 6, Gyan Luchmun.
Yrausquin from Aruba
2006Portrait for the Yrausquin family. With grinded money bills...!
Nahar commission
2006Porttrait commissioned by mister Herman Nahar, with his two big hobby's in the background. Typical Aruban...
Aruba - Timeless Carnival face
2006Some of the many Marjorie Flemmig faces, who died young and tragically, after being several times Aruban Carnival Queen ...
Commission castle Keukenhof
2006Commission by the castle Keukenenhof foundation to eternalize the board and employees as quickpaint performance during the Easter weekend in 2006. (National Art fair)
Jeuline studie
2004Study for step for step painting in acrylic of Aruban model Jeuline. One of my painting lessons pubicized in the (international) Dutch Art Magazine: PALET, the oldest established art magazine from Holland.
Fortuyn a la prima...
2003Pim Fortuyn was a controversial person till his end... Whether you are for or against him, you can't go around this cultural factor. in Holland...
Milton Harms
1997Part of a triptic of the deceased Milton Harms from Aruba, commissionned by his father.
Daughter Landa
1997Investigating personal posibillities and seeking certain borders, without going too far...
Aruba - Triple portrait of a queen
1996Are beauty ideals and international acculturation processes a necessary evil part of the globalisation?...
Robert Nahar
1996Portrait painting commission by Aruban Robert Nahar (triple dream with vault, crown,etc.).
Daughter of lawyer Capy Heze
1996Painting commissioned by family Capy Heze, Aruba.
Lady Cayenne (Lydia Rangel)
1991An Aruban Flower
Triple portrait of Debbie
1986A sketch reflecting nice memento's...
portrait drawing Madrid
1985Madrid drawing/sketch post-academy
my first wife
1985Sketch of my first wife, a lawyer... from Peru.
Portrait of Helen
1982Aruban dancer and lover Helen Francis inspired me during my academy time. One of my most beautifull, pure and sensitive 'quasi-primitive' portrait paintings untill now...
Model in Gold
1981Model in Gold
Selfportrait experiment
1981Selfportrait in polyester
Selfportrait in Gold
1980Painted selfportrait in mixed media
Self portrait
1980One of my self portraits on the Rietveld Academy
Gerry study
1979Study on the AKI academy of Enschede
self portrait
1978Study in 'nega-etching'...
self portrait squinting
1977My first experiments at Minerva academy with printing an etch in negative... a nega-etchting(?)
first identity crisis
1977My identity crisis after almost a year in Holland comming from Aruba... at Minerva Art Academy.
Self portrait
1976
Selfportrait in acrylic on bulletin board.
One of my selfportrait studies... before Mineva Art academy.