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18 February 2023
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Superheroes ready!
9 February 2023
This night scene with three superheroes has just been finished.
After first having the idea in my head, then sketching the idea on paper, and then starting the final painting.
With every painting that is completed, it remains for me, after all these years, a magical moment.
These funny superheroes are riding a Honda Dax scooter.
The model dates from the late 1960s and appeared in a second, completely revised, version in the late 1980s.
In addition to the humorous idea, I tried to pull focus towards the subject through the use of color and light in this painting.
Superheroes
24,5 x 38 cm
31,5 x 45 cm Framed
Oil on panel
Private Collection USA
Superheroes
2 February 2023
I am currently working on my 'Superheroes' painting.
🦇 Batman, 🦸♂️ Superman and 🛡️Captain America included.
These heroes ride a legendary Honda DAX scooter.
The new ranger
16 January 2023
My dog 'Ravel' loves nothing more than walking through the autumn leaves.
That is how the idea arose to make this painting of 'The new ranger'.
I deliberately kept the focus on the main subject in order to create a strong depth effect.
The colorful hazy autumn colors are like a kaleidoscope around this funny French bulldog, antlers included.
The new ranger
25 x 25 cm
32 x 32 cm framed
Oil on panel
Private collection The Netherlands
Meanwhile in the studio
22 December 2022
At the moment I am in the good company of a Maine Coon cat.
This cat is at the center of the new painting 'Enchanted'.
The idea was to make a portrait immersed in Rembrandt atmosphere.
This dramatic lighting strongly emphasizes the three-dimensional shapes of the subject, the Maine Coon in this case.
Enchanted
41 x 40 cm
48 x 47 cm framed
Oil on panel
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Icarus
18 August 2022
All aboard!
Very soon this painting will sail to Galerie Honingen in Gouda, where it will participate in the 25th anniversary exhibition.
This painting shows my vision of the mythological story of 'Icarus'.
As Icarus and Daedalus are held captive in Crete by King Minos, Daedalus devises a way to escape: he builds wings from a wooden framework, studded with feathers in a bow secured with wax.
Because the wax can melt, Daedalus warns Icarus not to fly too high and close to the sun, but not too low either, because the seawater would make the wings too heavy.
In his enthusiasm, however, Icarus becomes reckless; he flies too high to melt the wax and crashes into the Aegean Sea.
Icarus
36 x 60 cm
44 x 68 cm framed
Oil on panel
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