Sketches

'Garlanded Poppies' Pencil on paper 2025     RETURN TO EXPERIMENTS & SKETCHES

'Kingfisher' Pencil on paper 55 cm x 72 cm (framed), 40 cm x 58 cm (unframed) 2021 RETURN TO EXPERIMENTS & SKETCHES

‘Art Nouveau Lady’ Graphite on paper 40 cm x 50 cm 2023 RETURN TO EXPERIMENTS & SKETCHES

Pencil on paper 42 cm x 59 cm 2023 RETURN TO EXPERIMENTS & SKETCHES

‘Nancy II’ Pencil on paper 2022 Here is another image of Nancy, my recent inspiration. I know, that it is very random, but I found her images on Instagram and something really drew me to her image. She has amazing tattoos and fabulous hair and I really wanted to portray her. RETURN TO EXPERIMENTS & [...]

‘Nancy’ Pencil on paper 2022 Recently I found myself to be quite inspired by Nancy. I know, that it is very random, but I found her images on Instagram and something really drew me to her image. She has amazing tattoos and fabulous hair and I really wanted to portray her. Here is the very [...]

‘Time for Reflection’ Pencil and marker on paper 594 mm x 841 mm 2021 ‘Time for Reflection’ is a further development in my surrealism series. However, this time I decided not to have any background as I felt that the foreground is good enough. And it really is. It speaks to me and hopefully, the [...]

‘Angst’ Pencil and marker on paper 594 mm x 841 mm 2021 The angst in this piece is more or less a reflection of my mood at the time. When your art starts becoming popular, your clientele inevitably increases. Each piece that an artist makes takes a little bit of his soul. A little bit [...]

‘The Fallen Angel’ Pencil and marker on paper 594 mm x 841 mm 2021 The Fallen Angel is a third piece of my three ladies. I continued with the same style, where I depict a mythological creature in the foreground and then add patterns to the background. This angel emerges from the sea of illusion [...]

'The Medusa' Pencil and marker on paper 594 mm x 841 mm 2021 It’s an interesting mix, really. It’s partly based on Medusa, partly on Bridget Riley and has an oriental face. In essence, it’s a huge composition that has made me focus a lot on the texture of the hair and the background, which is [...]

‘The Mermaid’ Pencil and marker on paper 594 mm x 841 mm 2021 I think the transition from Medusa to the Mermaid was heavily based on my appreciation of Gustav Klimt (his painting ‘Water Serpents I’, in particular). It fascinates me to think that someone from the 1915-1920 era had such incredible foresight when it came [...]

Pencil on paper 55 cm x 72 cm (framed), 39 cm x 57 cm (unframed) 2021 RETURN TO EXPERIMENTS & SKETCHES

I started properly learning human anatomy and drawing it October 2020. The start was not my favourite as it was hours and hours of going through all the details of skeleton, then muscles and finally skin. At one point I was seeing leg muscles and skulls in my dreams. That is how much I was [...]

One might say that you are not an artist until you have produced at least one self-portrait. I produced quite a few, but this one is the only one I am prepared to share with you. What can I say, this is who I am and how I see myself. I thought that it was [...]

One might think that this is the easiest thing to do. Just a bit darker where the light does not reach and lighter where the object encounters light, right? Maybe for some artists it is easy, but certainly it was not for me. Not at the start. Why do we need shadows at all? This [...]

Over the past few months, I have been actively developing my classical drawing skills. It has been a very intense journey so far with various results, some I’m more pleased with and some ended up in a bin. However, it is a journey which I have been enjoying regardless. Here are a couple of examples [...]

Now, each art student will tell you that they have packed numerous hours of still life drawing under their belt. And I bet not one of them enjoyed every single second of it. Well, I’m no exception.  Here are just a couple of examples, but believe me, I’ve been ‘suffering’ for many-many more hours with [...]