Maybe the most attractive people to portray are wrinkled agry old men…

For a different reason portraying goddesses can be serious fun too.

But to portray a beautiful woman is not easy. The thing is to find the right balance, to not fall in the trap of banal glorification of the perfect goddess.

I try to stay clearheaded when I attack famous (and less famous) beauties, portray them in my sketch blocks.

Some fall for blonds others for dark haired vamps. I have a fixation for Anna Magnani… it could be worse… More than a vamp she was ‘La Lupa’ of Rome. She shows up in my blocks from 1987 on…

Why this blog? I felt the need to take distance from my oil painting for a couple of days, so I scribbled some beauties in the blocks. And now I had the idea to look at the collection (not complete) of VAMPS that flutter through my sketchbook pages (no who is who, maybe you recognize some and if not: sleepless nights!).

Here they are:

 
1987:

‘The laughing Lupa’.

2002:

That year only one goddess came around (the first real one next to Anna?) and was not too concentrated when I sketched her. Just during a break. Did not have the idea yet to invite others into the blocks.

2007:

The abyss (slight vertigo because of fear of heights).

2008:

With X-ray eyes. She looks right through me. After a film noir of the fifties.

2011:

Two bigger sketches, of course Anna (also detail).

2017:

Not so much a vamp, but just a very beautiful woman and a great artist as well.

2018:

With number one I went wild, expressionistic. I got carried away. Number two is very sixties.

2019:

Poor MM, she has the moustache of…

And there is a Spanish starlet. I had to make sketches of her for the movie ‘Barcelona, ciutat neutral’ for the Spanish TV. The amazing thing was that when I met her, she looked not particularly sexy, seductive or beautiful. But when she posed it was as if a bright light went on, she beamed.

This sketch hid in a private sketchbook.

2020:

Here it becomes serious. No more fantasy beauties (maybe a theme for another blog, my sketchbooks are full of them). No; famous Vamps! So serious that I made a series of bigger sketches (still for sale, see the site: SKETCHES). The Spanish starlet shines next to...

For the sketches click on the title of the page in grey.

2021:

In color.

2022:

Should I worry, my studio turned into a VAMP PARTY, it went out of control. Have I become a dirty old man? And that in these times?

I say this not only because of all the new correctness, the metoo and more, but also because I have decided to not read the news for a couple of days. There is so much wrong, so much to be desperate about that I threw myself in the arms of these goddesses... Away with wrinkled angry old men, the female future is the way to go! 

VIVA LA REVOLUCION!

These ladies pop up in between other sketches in the chapter: ‘SKETCHBOOKS’ on the site. But only every now and then.

to go to the sketchbook page, click on the title in grey.

Here is a song to sing while looking at all this splendor...