New bird in progress

At the moment I'm painting a young bird. It is oil on wood 40 x 60cm. Lots of fun to do!

And the last stage: Finished!

portrait of my niece finished!

The last couple of weeks I couln't paint because I was moving house but today I was able to finish the portrait of my niece. The background turned out to be the most difficult. It had to fit with the colours and texture of the face.

And this is a detail

summer workshop portraitpainting

For the people who live in the Netherlands close to Alphen a/d rijn, this summer I'm teaching a workshop portraitpainting again in the beautifull garden of Janneke van der wolf.
Interested?
please check out this link:


https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=23F5C7472CCF04F4&id=23F5C7472CCF04F4%21106&sc=documents

published on Zealous!

Sunday I received a mail on my Behance account that my portraits on stone are published on www.Zealous.co, a London site with exellent artworks. I feel flattered that they asked me if they could publish my art on their site.
I recomment to check out www.zealous.co. Looking for me just look under fine-art.
And for now fill up some boxes for our relocation on saterday..

bp portraitaward 2012

This coming week I'll be sending the portrait of Thomas to the Bp-portraitaward 2012. I hope to be in the exhibition this summer. It will be a strong competition with only 55 works to exhibit and over 3000 entries.

Niece

Painting in progress. Not yet finished. This is also a part of the painting. I'm working on tones to get the right feel in the painting. I love painting her because she has such an angel-face.

New Portrait

At the moment I'm very busy with all the hustle around moving house. But what I Can't do is not paint. At the moment I'm doing a very big portrait of 90 x 120 cm of my beautifull niece.
This is a detail of the first stage of the painting;