Colored Pencil Art

Roundism – 13-02-18 In my ever quest for roundism I was attracted to the female body’s position showing diagonals and triangles. I tried to counterbalance them by throwing in ...

Roundism – 17-03-18 Eroticism and art is as old as the Venus of Millendorf but always has been shunned and embraced at the same time. We all love sex, eroticism, nudity and the ...

Roundism – 30-01-18 In line with my previous graphite pencil drawing ‘Roundism – 11-01-18’ I rendered the model figure with such highlighted tones as if the skin was lube...

From a series of spontaneous drawings :: Drawing :: Contemporary :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: No :: Signed:...

Roundism – 10-03-18 The challenge was to create maximum flow but still maintain a recognizable female figure. Therefore I wanted no section crossing another in order to create a...

A Second Tribute This graphite pencil drawing ‘Roundism (Tribute to Anita Ekberg) – 22-06-23’ is not my first homage to her. Some years ago I made a first one. People must h...

A Perfect Mixture This graphite pencil drawing ‘Berg en Dal – 02-11-23’ is a sort of mixture of cubism and impressionism. Less abstracted than the previous one but more cubi...

Something More Cubist This graphite pencil drawing ‘Berg en Dal – 30-10-23’ is my next one in the series of the same name. Doing the last one I really got the hang of it. Th...

A Sort of Try-out This graphite pencil drawing ‘Berg en Dal – 25-10-23’ puts me back on track. Lately I was planning to do some more cityscapes, treescapes and landscapes. T...

Still Gloomy This graphite pencil drawing ‘Castle ‘De Wittenburg’ – 14-03-23’ is a sound cry for Spring. Dates put in former drawings indicate I sometimes started to dra...

Embracing Trees This graphite pencil drawing Park Hoog Oostduin – 14-09-22 follows directly after Het Sterrenbos – 12-09-22. Suddenly I found myself embracing the love for dra...

Refurbishing This graphite pencil drawing ‘Sinterklaas in Voorburg – 03-12-23’ is my first one after I my big operation on my website. It doesn’t happen that often I skip ...

Returning to Cubist Styling This graphite pencil drawing ‘Berg en Dal – 02-05-23’ is a welcome change from 9 consecutive impressionist landscapes I made. Somehow I felt attr...

The sheik of Araby - 15-10-17 I always love this jazz song and when listening to jazz doing my nudes in my apartment I made the connection all of a sudden, as I often do between v...

Summer in Holland – 25-07-18 In the dead of summer it is so hot here in The Hague I had double vision. That is why I serve two women for the price of one. Graphite pencil dra...

"Coyote Wreath" By Johanna Mueller is a unique and detailed piece which depicts a coyote, curled among iconography of the forest, structured in a Native American style flat ink style...

The Hague Forest – 21-06-18 When I ride my bike through The Hague Forest (Haagse Bos) just around the corner I see only beauty. Leafy light and shadow play. But at one time I bi...

Nights over Egypt – 13-11-18 I found this picture of Jenna J. Ross on Instagram and I liked it a lot. It was dark and blue. I found it fit for my Egypt project and decided to tu...

The nude portal – 03-07-19 As you may have noticed by now I am keen on vortices. They show an endless sequence of swirls, almost like a singularity. Some say they lead the way t...

The Carolingian Chapel – 30-06-18 When I was visiting the Bastei, a new museum at the base of the Valkhof at Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands, my eye caught the Sint-Nicolaaska...

The Proud Brothers – 04-01-21 The Bigger the Lie How can The Blues Brothers turn into The Proud Brothers? That is simple enough. Take a big country and turn it into a madhouse....

Art Deco Feel Wag the dog was the first title that came to mind when I saw this beautiful photo. It stems from the 1930s I think. It has this incredible art deco feel about it. Ho...

Meeting Julia It is time for the elevation of Julia Filament. Sunday 7th November I finally met her again and we went to the Singer Laren Museum. She is a fine artist, graphic des...

A Bit of Extra Fun This graphite pencil drawing ‘Hold Your Horses – 04-01-22 was a done deal in my head already during the live session. That was the same one spawning ‘Juli...

Ahzad Bogosian Trees and Lake colored pencil on paper 3h x 4.75w in 7.62h x 12.06w cm AZB024 Ahzad Bogosian Exhibitions 2021 Es-Scape, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL 2019...

A Break This graphite pencil drawing ‘St.-Bavo in Haarlem – 03-10-23’ is a break from the continuous stream of cubist female forms. So it goes, on a whim I decided to postpo...

Breitner’s Photography This graphite pencil drawing ‘Reclining Nude after Breitner – 27-04-24’ is based on a photograph Breitner took himself. He was an avid amateur photogr...

Bettie Page – 17-02-18 Another attempt to capture the essence of American pin-up and model Bettie Page. I liked the refence picture letting her bodyscape and hair melt into the ne...

This image plays with the viewer, imaginatively taking a drawing of a Sapphire rendered in pencil and playfully making a statement about humanity, are we really as important as we th...

A Bit of Impressionism This graphite pencil drawing ‘Den Haag – Nassaulaan – 01-05-24’ is a bit of impressionism. For no particular reason I always associate this season wit...

Pencil, Petal Flowers, Color and Ink on Paper. The base of this drawing is 120g/m2 Fabriano paper. I use natural dyes from flowers, herbs, leaves, and tree bark as the first drawing ...

One thing in another – 05-01-19 In my egyptian series I try to excavate treasures from the past. Like I said before I see strong resemblances with Egyptian art that presented hu...

Het Depot Rotterdam’s latest acquisition is the Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen. There was this online première in Januari 2021 during corona times but it drew less attention than d...

The artist and his model - 31-03-19 This drawing is a protest and and prestudy altogether. The latter for the sake of a bigger painting and the first because I need to be more cle...

Yugen Sheep have more fun or do they? It so happened that my dear friend, poet and photographer Alexis de Roode went for a little stroll in nature. Obviously to experience some y?...

Interior of kitchen is a beautiful drawing on brown-colored paper, realized during the XIX century by an architect. Pencil drawing. This drawing rapresents an interior of a kitchen ...

"Red Rabbit Wreath" By Johanna Mueller is a unique and detailed piece which depicts a jumping desert rabbit, surrounded by iconography of the plains desert, structured in a Native Am...

"Nature Bear Wreath" By Johanna Mueller is a unique and detailed piece which depicts a bear, surrounded by different iconography of the forest, structured in a Native American style ...

"48 Flowers" is an original colored pencil drawing on paper by Tom Shelton. The artist signed the piece lower right.

My Compliments This graphite pencil drawing ‘Third Rock from the Sun – 15-02-24’ I wanted to create for a long time. However, caught up in some projects in oil I had some ti...

Prankster This colored pencil drawing ‘Woman in a Red Kimono – 10-11-22’ answers the most frequently asked question of late. I thought this prank of the red kimono title giv...

Another Fine Dutch One Time for a tribute to Lourens Alma Tadema and why not? Vermeer, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Mondriaan and De Kooning are house hold names. Perhaps not as famous as...

Clueless as to Female Forms This graphite pencil drawing ‘The Magere Brug in Amsterdam – 09-11-23’ is rather realistic looking but let me explain why. Of late I started sket...

Joan Brotat Vilanova (1920-1990) "Stylized Female Figure Colored Pencil Drawing by Joan Brotat" Colored pencil on paper.

The artist used crayon, colored pencil, and ink. The artist says: “Looking at cursive writing teaching aids, I looked for, and couldn't find transitions between all the letters in ...

De Koepel (The Dome) at Voorburg – 01-11-18 When I go to teach at Studio Brugman, atVoorburg I often come across The Dome (De Koepel), situated in the middle of estate ‘Vreugd...

A Beautiful Spot This graphite pencil drawing ‘Den Haag – Lange Voorhout – 15-05-23’ depicts a beautiful spot in the heart of the city. Originally it formed the offshoot o...

This graphite pencil drawing ‘Woman in a Red Kimono – 03-11-22’ counterparts the one I made last year cubistically. After ‘Roundism – 28-10-22’ I was out of motifs inspir...

The Venus of The Hague – 09-07-20 Animals kept crawling in so it was inevitable to incorporate them into these series. The first one I saw was a lioness in her thight and second...

Artist: Rodney Alan Greenblat, American (1960 - ) Title: Intrepid Year: 1989 Medium: Gouache and Color Pencil on paper, signed Size: 10 in. x 16 in. (25.4 cm x 40.64 cm) Frame S...

The Venus of The Hague – 23-07-20 Being a deep sea fish a coelacanth hardly ever come face to face with a white shark way up high but sometimes it does. If so, what would you ex...

Woman in a Red Kimono This drawing of a woman in a red kimono is based on a session with my regular model. It so happened that I teamed up with a student of mine who rents a lovel...

Paco Rabanne ( 1934 -2023 ) " Profil Orange " 41 X 31 cm 49 X 39 cm framed . colored pencil , Gouache, felt-tip pen and graphite on paper . signed and dated 1990.

Original Painting - Acrylic and Colored Pencil on Folded Canvas 36" x 36" 2017 Signed on back (verso) in pencil with name and date Optional framing JEAN WOLFF is a New York City-b...

Blue Fold Painting 4 is an original painting featuring Acrylic and Colored Pencil on Folded Canvas by artist Jean Wolff. 36" x 42" 2018 Signed on back (verso) in pencil with name a...

This contemporary drawing of a hand reaching for a pomegranate in a tree by Zachari Logan is made with colored pencil on Mylar.

This soothing modern colour pencil drawing presents the tactile forms of paint that seem to lift off the paper in a way that creates a mindful sense of the now having a calming and e...