Pumpkins as models

Pumpkins are one of my favorite subjects for my work. I love pumpinks! Their variety in colors, textures and shapes are really beautiful. Hier are some dry pumpkins that were models for my paintings, drawings and linocuts. Sometimes it happens that some pumpinks dry in place from rot and so they remained intact but their colors changed.

Studies of pumpkins, acrylic on cardboard,2003

Some mini sketches (2004-2008) that I made for the composition of paintings. Some of these paintings are at Flickr as Meeting I, Meeting II, Night Visit, Playing Hide I. Other paintings are at Flickr are Playing Hide III and View I.

Sketchbook with sketch of Night Visitor 

Sketchbook with pumpinks that I use for some drawings in 2009. In Flickr are two of these drawings of 2010 : Birds and Pumpkins I and Birds and Pumpinks VII.

I also made a little leporello book with a story about a dreamy pumpkin (see hier below) and another book with a linocut On the windowsill watching the clouds.

The progress of life, 2005

Friendship, 2010

The visit, 2006

The View I, 2005

The View II, 2005

The View III, 2005

The View IV, 2006

See also my Flickr for more works with pumpkins.

Cactus as a model

Cactus have always fascinated me. I have a few cactus at home, sometimes they go along  the years, but sometimes not. They become suddenly ill and died.
This cactus in the picture I have years at home. In the summer of 2006, the cactus bloom for the first time but by busy I have not seen that. When I saw that its first flower was bloomed I immediately took my brushes and a canvas and started painting. I promise myself that despite problems, I wanted to miss nothing more, that I should keep looking for everything  around me... because life is wonderful!

 The first flower is blooming...

To my joy I saw that the cactus had a new node. This time I have seen her develop from node to flower.

 The development...

Open to the world... 

The departure: the second flower is blooming... 

The cactus has two 'kids', pen drawing 2007.

 I repotted them in 2008 ... 

I fond once the cactus (on the left side of this painting) on the sidewalk (with other three cactus). After a few weeks at home, he suddenly flourish. The other cactus (on the right side) is the cactus of this blog, with three nodes.

The Equilibrist, 2008 

My model accompanied by a pumpkin, 2010  

This year two flowers flourished almost simultaneously, they stayed together for a long time. 

Cactus in Middelburg, Mei 2013