Study based on a photo by @davemylesphotos.bsky.social Had to improvise on the face, scale was too small to do the original model justice. #traditional #drawing #sketchbook

Random kid sleeping on the train. I feel weird drawing random people from life, so I took a photo of this kid to draw at home, but maybe in the end that's just weirder... Gotta get more practice drawing regular people somehow though. #sketchbook #traditionalart #portrait #drawing

Lately I feel like I'm having to re-invent my process for every portrait, but maybe I'm just out of practice. Ella Rubin in 'Until Dawn'. Ridiculous movie, but worth it for her @bsky.art #portrait #drawing #sketchbook #untildawn #ellarubin

The sunlight casts soft beams that stretch across the room like quiet visitors. There’s a gentle warmth in the air, the kind that doesn’t ask anything of you. It just exists, golden and still. Title: Curtains No. 2. Original oil painting on wood. 17 x 13 cm. / appr. 6.7 x 5.1 in. #oilpainting

Sculpture painting. #art #painting #digitalpainting

Willem Dafoe in 'The Hunter' (2011). Criminally underrated Dafoe feature. Eyes are probably a bit too big. #sketchbook #drawing #portrait #cinesky #movies

My hybrid Hibiscus finally revealed its first flowers after two years, so I had to paint it. Gouache on cotton, 15.5x23cm. #flowers #gouache #traditionalpainting

"Birth of Chrysanthis", gouache on cotton, 23x31cm. This was a long project, and felt like an important step for me. A lot of preparation went into it, certainly by my standards, but I enjoyed this more lengthy process. #gouache #traditionalpainting @bsky.art

My table at today's art fair in the local theater here in Gouda. The most positive experience I've had of the three events I participated in this summer, lots of artists together in one space.

My setup for a shared exhibit this weekend. #gouache #traditional #painting #gallery

More from 'La Grande Bellezza' (2013), dir. Paolo Sorrentino. Still thinking about this movie #cinesky #movies #cinema #moviesky

Rewatched 'The Great Beauty' (La Grande Bellezza) for I think the third time. It's so beautiful, if you haven't seen it please watch, and if you have, tell me all about it here, please. This is a portrait drawing of Annaluisa Capasa portraying an old love interest of the main character's

Hibiscus Schizopetalus, gouache on paper, 18x26cm. The reds are much deeper/darker irl but there was no way I was gonna get an accurate photo of this one. #gouache #painting #sciart 🐡 #flower

"Look to the North" – Oil on linen, 2003. #oilpainting #figurativepainting #landscapeart This painting was conceived from reference photos taken in Gyllyngdune Gardens, Falmouth, back in 1997 whilst at Art College there. #falmouth #cornwall I've included a photo of the model, Marie, from that day.

Don't really like this piece. It was supposed to be a quick sketch but I spent way too long on it and didn't get what I was going for. Volterra, gouache on paper, 15.5x23cm

Again apparently? Is this a monthly thing or something? I have no idea #portfolioday #painting #traditional #gouache

My Mimosa Pudica in its new pot, soon as it's settled from the repotting I'll have to do some pruning too #bondai #ceramics #pottery

This was the hardest pot I've made so far, and took three tries, but I'm finally happy with the result, even if the pot color was supposed to be a little brighter and the decoration a little darker. Now my Strawberry Grape finally has a nice ceramic home as it leafs out this year. #bonsai #ceramics

Joely Richardson in 'Event Horizon'. I wanted to refresh my portrait painting skills in preparation for a larger piece I'm planning.

New on from last year. Gouache painting in repurposed, vintage, wooden box. “Distraction” 2024 #painting #contemporaryary #gouachepainting

Joely Richardson in 'Event Horizon'. #portraits #drawing #movies

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

Man, I love movies about food, always seems to be about softening hardened hearts through one of the most primal and human pleasures, good food. 'Pig' (2021) starring Nicolas Cage was fucking good and I can't believe I never heard about it till it appeared on my HBO homepage 1h28m ago

Late night hand practice for an upcoming piece. Fortunately I don't need to look far for reference as I've been blessed with quite feminine hands myself 😅

If you see this, QRP one work that you love that you wish had gotten more notice. #gouache #traditionalpainting #art

I'm totally out of, but hoping to get back into, the habit of reading. Can't wait to learn all about my favorite Renaissance painter. #booksky

Another visit to the Leiden botanic garden today

It was finally time to repot my spruce into the pot I made last year. The tree is still a little unceremoniously tied to the rock with raffia but soon I'll be able to take that off and see the rock with roots draped over it. #bonsai #ceramics #pottery

New bonsai pots back from the kiln, all 10cm or under #ceramics

These are the brave people Trump just spat on. They deserve our support, not for their leader to be humiliated and asked to beg while Trump defends Russia to his face. I hope EU leaders find a spine and take over to end this war quickly. I kneel with Ukraine, for they hold the line for all Europe

A painting of Kyiv's Independence Square and monument I made in '23 and sold for charity supporting Ukraine. #slavaukraini

Old drawing from '21, more applicable than ever. #fucktrump

I hope with all the recent italian landscapes I've posted you can feel just a little of what I'm putting in them, like admiration, warmth, but also melancholy, as I'm painting them from a bleak and dreary location, looking back at my own photos from a better time, over 4 years ago, for reference.

Doing some figure drawing practice with Arnie in his prime @schwarzenegger.bsky.social

Making some new Cobalt Blue gouache. I've been making my own paints for about 4 years now, I love immersing myself in the traditional process like this, it's really interesting to me. #gouache

Phia Saban in House of the Dragon

A little much needed exercise in simplifying my strokes #gouache

Flowers are the classic Valentine's day gift, why not a painted one? See all available paintings on my website, link in bio #valentine

I would be greatly honored should you choose to repost my work, just one, any one, it'd be a great help and I'd be in your debt forever. This is an older piece from 2020, Devil's bridge near Lucca in Tuscany, Italy. Painted en plein air, gouache on paper, 18x26cm. @bsky.art #gouachepainting

Fucking beautiful, keep it up

Irene, graphite on paper #sketchbook #portrraits

Thinking I might start posting some of my portrait work on here as well; here's Vladimir Vdovichenkov in 'Leviathan'. Meh movie, but had some visually interesting shots #portraits

TOMORROW: We’re rallying at the Treasury building with @moveon.org to stop Elon Musk’s hostile takeover and tell this unelected billionaire to get his hands off our money. We hope you can join us if you’re in the D.C. area.

If you see this, quote with your night art 🌛

The people who are most vulnerable, who have the most to lose, who are facing concentration camps and being disappeared in the middle night are out in the streets protesting in the US. If they can do it....

Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran. @youranoncentral.bsky.social do your thing, find any online presence they have left (or hidden), and put the pressure on these guys

The Trump administration has placed two top security chiefs at the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave after they resisted turning over classified material in restricted areas to Elon Musk’s staffers. America, please stand with us—we are fighting to defend this country!

Grew this bad boy myself 😁 Hibiscus, gouache on paper, 15.5x23cm. #traditionalpainting #gouache #hibiscus #flowers #sciart 🐡 @bsky.art

Just keep rolling protests happening, that’s how Georgia is able to go every day, different sectors or communities hold a massive march daily. Yes start now but also organize for the 15th and any other days that appear. Maximum mobilization is needed.