portraits
portraits in several disciplines, free work and as commission.
dated 2002 until 2005
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The shining darkness
2005Portrait of Leo D. Lichteberg, writer, scenario-writer etc.At the left you see James Joyce, at the right Paul Leautaud, important writers to the portrayed person.The title relates to the dark background( see Picasso,Matisse, and Dufy).
Haitske
2005Haitske, a portrait of my daughter Haitske, kneeling, holding a young cat, on the occasion of her 11th birthday.
Jessica
2005Portrait made in commission of a 15 years old mentally handycapped girl who died several weeks before.Her uncle gave me a picture of her,made a few days before she died, from wich I made the portrait with a, according to the family, touching result.
Il Borgomastro di Sardam
2004Purpose was a satyrical portret of the major of Zaanstad, Ruud Vreeman,emptying the horn of plenty; strangely his looks turned out to be those of the lightverse poet Drs. P(Heinz Polzer).
Peter Goudriaan
2004portrait in commission of his wife Marjan Goudriaan.At first I took pictures, then I made scetches and, after proven resamblance, the final drawing on cottonpaper was made