These drawings tell the story of the song ‘What Are The Odds’

‘Dedis’ was a new word I learned when ‘Baby Boom’ was published. As i was expected to sign at events, i was supposed to make a quick drawing (of for instance the main character) in the book as well. I am a slow drawer so i needed to practice a bit. These are examples of 10 minute drawings for people who bought the book: ‘Dedis’. (from dedication’.)

In the 3rd yeas of Wackers, we went outside to draw and paint often.

Martin’s Monthly Pin up Parlour is frequent event where artists are invited to draw a model posing in pin up attire. I play records that fit the themes of the evening and host the event. Usually i have a few assignments ready, there are prizes, drinks and good company. 

Although most of the time i am too busy playing records and explaining exercises or helping with the poses, at time is find time to make a short sketch myself. Most poses are held for 1 to 10 minutes.

Martin’s Monthly Pin up Parlour is frequent event where artists are invited to draw a model posing in pin up attire. I play records that fit the themes of the evening and host the event. Usually i have a few assignments ready, there are prizes, drinks and good company. 

Although most of the time i am too busy playing records and explaining exercises or helping with the poses, at time is find time to make a short sketch myself. Most poses are held for 1 to 10 minutes.

Martin’s Monthly Pin up Parlour is frequent event where artists are invited to draw a model posing in pin up attire. I play records that fit the themes of the evening and host the event. Usually i have a few assignments ready, there are prizes, drinks and good company. 

Although most of the time i am too busy playing records and explaining exercises or helping with the poses, at time is find time to make a short sketch myself. Most poses are held for 1 to 10 minutes.

Martin’s Monthly Pin up Parlour is frequent event where artists are invited to draw a model posing in pin up attire. I play records that fit the themes of the evening and host the event. Usually i have a few assignments ready, there are prizes, drinks and good company. 

Although most of the time i am too busy playing records and explaining exercises or helping with the poses, at time is find time to make a short sketch myself. Most poses are held for 1 to 10 minutes.

Martin’s Monthly Pin up Parlour is frequent event where artists are invited to draw a model posing in pin up attire. I play records that fit the themes of the evening and host the event. Usually i have a few assignments ready, there are prizes, drinks and good company. 

Although most of the time i am too busy playing records and explaining exercises or helping with the poses, at time is find time to make a short sketch myself. Most poses are held for 1 to 10 minutes.

Martin’s Monthly Pin up Parlour is frequent event where artists are invited to draw a model posing in pin up attire. I play records that fit the themes of the evening and host the event. Usually i have a few assignments ready, there are prizes, drinks and good company. 

Although most of the time i am too busy playing records and explaining exercises or helping with the poses, at time is find time to make a short sketch myself. Most poses are held for 1 to 10 minutes.

Martin’s Monthly Pin up Parlour is frequent event where artists are invited to draw a model posing in pin up attire. I play records that fit the themes of the evening and host the event. Usually i have a few assignments ready, there are prizes, drinks and good company. 

Although most of the time i am too busy playing records and explaining exercises or helping with the poses, at time is find time to make a short sketch myself. Most poses are held for 1 to 10 minutes.

Martin’s Monthly Pin up Parlour is frequent event where artists are invited to draw a model posing in pin up attire. I play records that fit the themes of the evening and host the event. Usually i have a few assignments ready, there are prizes, drinks and good company. 

Although most of the time i am too busy playing records and explaining exercises or helping with the poses, at time is find time to make a short sketch myself. Most poses are held for 1 to 10 minutes.

Martin’s Monthly Pin up Parlour is frequent event where artists are invited to draw a model posing in pin up attire. I play records that fit the themes of the evening and host the event. Usually i have a few assignments ready, there are prizes, drinks and good company. 

Although most of the time i am too busy playing records and explaining exercises or helping with the poses, at time is find time to make a short sketch myself. Most poses are held for 1 to 10 minutes.

Martin’s Monthly Pin up Parlour is frequent event where artists are invited to draw a model posing in pin up attire. I play records that fit the themes of the evening and host the event. Usually i have a few assignments ready, there are prizes, drinks and good company. 

Although most of the time i am too busy playing records and explaining exercises or helping with the poses, at time is find time to make a short sketch myself. Most poses are held for 1 to 10 minutes.

banners to promote an episode of Martin’s Monthly Pin Up parlour.

Martin’s Monthly Pin up Parlour is frequent event where artists are invited to draw a model posing in pin up attire. I play records that fit the themes of the evening and host the event. Usually i have a few assignments ready, there are prizes, drinks and good company. 

Although most of the time i am too busy playing records and explaining exercises or helping with the poses, at time is find time to make a short sketch myself. Most poses are held for 1 to 10 minutes.

Martin’s Monthly Pin up Parlour is frequent event where artists are invited to draw a model posing in pin up attire. I play records that fit the themes of the evening and host the event. Usually i have a few assignments ready, there are prizes, drinks and good company. 

Although most of the time i am too busy playing records and explaining exercises or helping with the poses, at time is find time to make a short sketch myself. Most poses are held for 1 to 10 minutes.

Martin’s Monthly Pin up Parlour is frequent event where artists are invited to draw a model posing in pin up attire. I play records that fit the themes of the evening and host the event. Usually i have a few assignments ready, there are prizes, drinks and good company. 

Although most of the time i am too busy playing records and explaining exercises or helping with the poses, at time is find time to make a short sketch myself. Most poses are held for 1 to 10 minutes.

Martin’s Monthly Pin up Parlour is frequent event where artists are invited to draw a model posing in pin up attire. I play records that fit the themes of the evening and host the event. Usually i have a few assignments ready, there are prizes, drinks and good company. 

Although most of the time i am too busy playing records and explaining exercises or helping with the poses, at time is find time to make a short sketch myself. Most poses are held for 1 to 10 minutes.

Martin’s Monthly Pin up Parlour is frequent event where artists are invited to draw a model posing in pin up attire. I play records that fit the themes of the evening and host the event. Usually i have a few assignments ready, there are prizes, drinks and good company. 

Although most of the time i am too busy playing records and explaining exercises or helping with the poses, at time is find time to make a short sketch myself. Most poses are held for 1 to 10 minutes.

1, 5 and 10 minutes sketches of Pearl, model at Martin’s Monthly Pin Up Parlour. This is an event for people who want to train their hand with a live model dressed in pin up attire and acting accordingly. I play records regarding the themes of the evening and organise + host the event. If i see a possibility i draw a sketch myself.

sketches and parts of the storyboard for ‘Deep Shit’.

I think I did three versions of the story in board. One by hand, and two in flash – the program that became ‘Anime’ and was really great for digital ink drawings.

When i tried to design the main character for future comics and i wanted it  to be the prettiest woman i could draw, so that however hard the work is, it will be nice to do. This drawing must have been made in 1991 when i was a young lad – not even having finished art school.

Of course, Baby Boom has had different drawing styles but i always look at this sketch with a smile. She hasn’t changed much over the years.

Martin’s Monthly Pin Up Parlour is an event I organise with the help of my partner Laura A Dima. Every month, we invite models to pose in a certain ‘pin up’ related theme. I play records from my vinyl collection (mostly obscure pebbles) and guide the participants through the event. We have poses during one minute, until 15 minutes – people have to work very hard when they are around me!

Here are some sketches I did myself on the parlour. Usually I don’t have much time to drw myself, as I am giving the assignments and explanations, and play the records and follow a program I made beforehand. BUT it is, also for me, so much fun to do that every now and then I make some drawings.

Birth card for Maksim, by Thamar and Axel. This lovely couple met on a party where I introduced them and after alcohol drenched night they met again and became partners for life. So the birth card of Maksim has a linkt to the vodka i poured them that night.

Piet and Ted were moving and this was their card to let us know.

When Flora had her birthday, the band gave her a new wig.

When Yma was born, Flora and Joel asked me to do the card.  ‘Yma’ comes from ‘Yma Sumac’ – so i thought it was nice to have a link with the magic Exotica feel of the artist. The little kolibri was used as a stamp.

When Moos was born, Joel and Flora asked me to do their card

Simon got a gig with Branford Marsalis for his birthday.

Emanuel is an excellent drummer who played with me in the Spinshots. However, we gave him a workshop or his birthday, because one can always learn more! Our band birthday presents usually went with cartoons made by Emanuel or by me.

At age 52, I wanted to go ‘back to school’ and I did. I managed to have a scholarship funded by PPO and went to… art school! I am learning to draw and paint the classical way and use what I learn daily in my practice as a blended media artist.

Here are some studies from my first year.

When a model did not show up, we made charcoal drawings of fellow students.

model drawings made at Wackers

studies made at Wackers Academy in the third year (2022 – 23)

Studies i made at Wackers Academy in 2020

At Wackers, we are taught to draw objects, still lifes, models and interiors. As we progress, we learn more about ‘how the lightest dark is still darker then the darkest light’ and we keep on practicing with shades and perspectives.

At Wackers academy, in specific lessons, students are asked to draw still lifes in shades rather than lines. We are taught how to see the darkest and lightest parts of objects and how to translate ‘false light’ and so on.

studies at Wackers: students are asked to draw complicated, rather abstract still objects practicing their understanding of perspective laws, circles and basic forms.

Study after the toilet block at the Wackers Academy. (charcoal)

You are looking through a window in which you see a mirror on the wall reflecting the back of the block. But the window itself reflects the hallway i am in (when i drew this) and the door to the classroom with a coat hanging. So you see stuff through the darker parts of reflections and it was quite a challenge, in terms of ‘what needs to be focussed?’, ‘How does the perspective work here?’ etc.

 

In 2022, i am a 2nd year student at Wackers Academy for figurative art. I thought it would be great to study again and yes it is. Ever since 2019 i have been picking up study and research to have a deeper understanding of the things i do; drawing, designing, compositing, composing, arranging and directing.

This is a study i made at the Wackers academy, just the hallway with the stairs there, but it is almost a good drawing!

This drawing was made after a photo in 4 hours. Study at Wackers Art Academy 2021
70 x 50, charcoal

It’s one of those originals that’s for sale. drop me a line if you’re interested.

I am showing this sketch here because there is some quality that I would love to cultivate – there is something about the freedom of the lines, the suggestions, that elevates this quickly drawn portrait above the average study.

study made in the first year of Wackers Academy (2020). I came home from voting, and because of the Corona crisis, we got to keep the pencil. So I used that to draw this with.

my girlfriend’s shoe in charcoal

My friend Joop gave me a cheese grater, which i drew in charcoal.

plastic mannequin with harmonium, charcoal.

A statue of jesus i got from a friend, that exactly fitted the gas mask i got from another friend. charcoal with white pastel.

still life with lamp, charcoal

charcoal drawing of a broken statue of jesus.

Don’t worry! It’s a plastic mannequin. (washed Ink)

chair i drew at Wackers. Charcoal.

One of the fun things of studying at Wackers is that i draw things I wouldn’t have dreamt of drawing had I not followed the course. here is an autumn leaf in charcoal.

Portrait for the graphic identity for copywriter Titia Tijmstra. We figured the site needed a portrait, but not a photograph – this illustrative portrait seems less aggressive and more playful than any photo on that place would be.

these are sketches of a friend, mostly 15 minutes – and it needs be said, from a photo.

Portrait of Lae as a nun: study for what would become ‘Do Bad Habits Wear Off?’ from the series ‘Everything Must Go’. Lae is one of those friends who are kind enough to pose for me.

There was a time I drew a pencil portrait almost every day. This was one of them.

Portrait of Mischa Den Haring for his 50th birthday.

‘Do Bad Habits Wear Off?’ was the first in the series ‘Everything Must Go’.

Everything Must Go was a series of seven life size ‘pin up’ drawings (the drawings were 2 meters high and 90 cm wide) and depict young women at an important stage in their lives: we al had a period in which we took decision that defined us for life. The women in ‘Everything Must Go’ seem to be at a sublime moment in their early career. They were attire that classically meant something but by now is only known through derivates.

The drawings are very fine and precise pencil works, drawn over a period of three months per drawing. All that time, the drawings were used as a table cloth, so when friends came over I made sure to serve colourful curries, red wine and coffee. This way the stains sort of demolished the work while it is created, as a symbol of life itself. we become somebody by destructing something, character is not in perfection but in failure. All drawings have hidden a famous quote by Lucebert: ‘Everything of value is defenceless’.

For this nun, three very kind people posed: Lae, Bibi and Laura.

I drew ‘Miss Iran’ at the beginning of the Gulf War. I was asked to do the identity for an event called ‘The Exit of Evil’ and even asked to draw ‘pin ups’ from the ‘evil countries’. We tried to make use of humour to create a public reflection: the drawings seem to say ‘Who in the world is going to bomb cute girls?’ – which was my way of saying don’t forget the people you attack are humans.

 

‘Still Everything must go was the following up series to ‘Everything Must Go’. I only made three drawings in this series – and this is ‘Cancel Culture’.

It was drawn in Corona time when everything fell silent. Except social media – they were very loud and there was a thing called ‘Cancel Culture’. ‘Cancel Culture’ is the culture in which you shout your opinion, knowing that you are right and are not open for discussion. So when the cultural sector had a hard time due to the regulations and the virus itself (opening venues was out of the question, no discussion possible) we could say it was ‘completely cancelled’. But also planes stood on the ground, people were lost in foreign countries, nobody would know what would happen next.

‘Cancel Culture’

Pencil and stains on 160 gr Artic White Paper, screwed to black painted wood
60 x 100 cm

When you’re out of options, all you can do is sit and smoke.

‘Quarantaine II’

Pencil and stains on 160 gr Artic White Paper, screwed to black painted wood
80 x 30 cm

Every woman, no matter alive or fantasy, will be judged by her picture. When people see a smoking girl behind glass (note the reflection of the man in the window) they have their associations ready – and their opinions. But during the quarantaine, people were bored out of their skulls and you saw them smoking behind their steamy windows.

Everything Must Go (II) is a series of ‘pin ups’ i drew on my table using the work-in-progress as a table cloth

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‘Quarantaine I’

Pencil and stains on 160 gr Artic White Paper, screwed to black painted wood
110 x 40 cm

When you need to be in quarantaine, better make the best out of it.

 

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‘School’s Out’

Everything Must Go was a series of seven life size ‘pin up’ drawings (the drawings were 2 meters high and 90 cm wide) and depict young women at an important stage in their lives: we al had a period in which we took decision that defined us for life. The women in ‘Everything Must Go’ seem to be at a sublime moment in their early career. They were attire that classically meant something but by now is only known through derivates.

The drawings are very fine and precise pencil works, drawn over a period of three months per drawing. All that time, the drawings were used as a table cloth, so when friends came over I made sure to serve colourful curries, red wine and coffee. This way the stains sort of demolished the work while it is created, as a symbol of life itself. we become somebody by destructing something, character is not in perfection but in failure. All drawings have hidden a famous quote by Lucebert: ‘Everything of value is defenceless’.

Pencil and stains on 160 gr Artic White Paper, screwed to black painted wood
200 x 100 cm

The law of entropy: Children are failed versions of yourselves .

‘plastic soup’

Pencil and stains on 160 gr Artic White Paper, screwed to black painted wood
200 x 100 cm

It does not matter you will go – you will always find your own reflection. If you don’t go dep at the surface, and if you go deep there will be your reflection in the plastic soup.

Everything Must Go was a series of seven life size ‘pin up’ drawings (the drawings were 2 meters high and 90 cm wide) and depict young women at an important stage in their lives: we al had a period in which we took decision that defined us for life. The women in ‘Everything Must Go’ seem to be at a sublime moment in their early career. They were attire that classically meant something but by now is only known through derivates.

The drawings are very fine and precise pencil works, drawn over a period of three months per drawing. All that time, the drawings were used as a table cloth, so when friends came over I made sure to serve colourful curries, red wine and coffee. This way the stains sort of demolished the work while it is created, as a symbol of life itself. we become somebody by destructing something, character is not in perfection but in failure. All drawings have hidden a famous quote by Lucebert: ‘Everything of value is defenceless’.

‘Deep Space’

Pencil and stains on 160 gr Artic White Paper, screwed to black painted wood
200 x 100 cm

The space girl is so far in deep space, that there are not even stars behind her anymore. She is on the outskirts of whatever there is: behind her the great void. Yet she seems to shoot at something that is beyond our cognition – outside the frame. And the backlash is pushing her out of the frame just as well. Everything has to go.

‘Everything Must Go’ was a series of seven life size ‘pin up’ drawings (the drawings were 2 meters high and 90 cm wide) and depict young women at an important stage in their lives: we al had a period in which we took decision that defined us for life. The women in ‘Everything Must Go’ seem to be at a sublime moment in their early career. They were attire that classically meant something but by now is only known through derivates.

The drawings are very fine and precise pencil works, drawn over a period of three months per drawing. All that time, the drawings were used as a table cloth, so when friends came over I made sure to serve colourful curries, red wine and coffee. This way the stains sort of demolished the work while it is created, as a symbol of life itself. we become somebody by destructing something, character is not in perfection but in failure. All drawings have hidden a famous quote by Lucebert: ‘Everything of value is defenceless’.

‘Summer’

Everything Must Go was a series of seven life size ‘pin up’ drawings (the drawings were 2 meters high and 90 cm wide) and depict young women at an important stage in their lives: we al had a period in which we took decision that defined us for life. The women in ‘Everything Must Go’ seem to be at a sublime moment in their early career. They were attire that classically meant something but by now is only known through derivates.

The drawings are very fine and precise pencil works, drawn over a period of three months per drawing. All that time, the drawings were used as a table cloth, so when friends came over I made sure to serve colourful curries, red wine and coffee. This way the stains sort of demolished the work while it is created, as a symbol of life itself. we become somebody by destructing something, character is not in perfection but in failure. All drawings have hidden a famous quote by Lucebert: ‘Everything of value is defenceless’.

This is a childhood memory partially: I remember lying in the grass and looking at the blue sky, waiting for a plane to always spoil the serene blue heaven with a white stripe. In 15 minutes the sky would be full of scars: I learned that beauty will always be ruined by people – it is in us.

Pencil and stains on 160 gr Artic White Paper, screwed to black painted wood
200 x 100 cm

There was a time I could lie in the grass and that was enough. I’d watch the blue skies until airplanes spoiled the view.

Everything Must Go was a series of zeven life size ‘pin up’ drawings (the drawings were 2 meters high and 90 cm wide) and depict young women at an important stage in their lives: we al had a period in which we took decision that defined us for life. The women in ‘Everything Must Go’ seem to be at a sublime moment in their early career. They were attire that classically meant something but by now is only known through derivates.

The drawings are very fine and precise pencil works, drawn over a period of three months per drawing. All that time, the drawings were used as a table cloth, so when friends came over I made sure to serve colourful curries, red wine and coffee. This way the stains sort of demolished the work while it is created, as a symbol of life itself. we become somebody by destructing something, character is not in perfection but in failure. All drawings have hidden a famous quote by Lucebert: ‘Everything of value is defenceless’.

‘Eleven’ obviously refers to the volume of the amplifier.

‘Eleven’ Pencil and stains on 160 gr artic white paper
100 x 200 cm

Everything Must Go was a series of seven life size ‘pin up’ drawings (the drawings were 2 meters high and 90 cm wide) and depict young women at an important stage in their lives: we al had a period in which we took decision that defined us for life. The women in ‘Everything Must Go’ seem to be at a sublime moment in their early career. They were attire that classically meant something but by now is only known through derivates.

The drawings are very fine and precise pencil works, drawn over a period of three months per drawing. All that time, the drawings were used as a table cloth, so when friends came over I made sure to serve colourful curries, red wine and coffee. This way the stains sort of demolished the work while it is created, as a symbol of life itself. we become somebody by destructing something, character is not in perfection but in failure. All drawings have hidden a famous quote by Lucebert: ‘Everything of value is defenceless’.

Nurse Andreea is based on the stories I heard form my girlfriend Laura A Dima (the A stands for Andreea) considering her experiences with Romanian hospitals.