plein air June 4th 2011

Plein air sketch I did in Dochamps, Belgium.
I placed a complete step-by-step on my tutorial blog: LINK

Digital rendering

Digital finishing touch for one of the latest model sketches.

Pleinair 02-06-2011

After searching for the kind of landscape I wanted to paint I found this scenery just outside 'Puttershoek'.

Water mixable oil paint on canvas, 2 hours.

Life drawing 31-05-2011

We got to draw Juliette again yesterday, so I was a happy sketcher. She's a beautiful model. More drawings of Juliette from last year were posted here.

Old sketches

Some old pencil sketches I found while organising my work, made in the 'old harbor' in Rotterdam.

Pleinair 25-04-2011

Another pastel sketch on farmers' ground. This time I drew a farmhouse with a large goat stable in the distance.

Pleinair 23-04-2011

A pastel drawing made an hour before sunset. Difficult one, I feel I may have exaggerated the colors to much and the tonals aren't in balance. Ah well...practice, practice.

Plein air sketch

Persoonshaven , Rotterdam, April 15th 2011 .
On a sunny morning like this, the light changes extremely fast... It is best to define the placement of the shadows first, so you can still keep consistent lighting, when the sun is moving on...
It can also be a good thing to limit the time to do the sketch, so the initial idea remains intact. After an hour, the scene has changed completely...

Pleinair 10-04-2011

I made this pastel sketch today in about 1,5 hours. In the background you can see the farm I drew last year in april, you can see it here.

Plein air 3-4-'11

Yesterday's plein air sketch. Gouache on moleskine sketchbook.

I used only a few colors for this painting:
-Titanium white
-Ultramarine
-Gold ochre (W&N)
-Burnt Umber
-Greenish yellow (talens)
-Turquoise blue

I created most of the painting with only these colors. In the end, I added a few accents with:
-vermillon (traffic lights and the barriers)
-Cad yellow (foliage in the back left)