A fierce cavalier from a Fantasia – the traditional horsemanship & art of combat festival held during certain celebrations in the countries of the Maghreb.Oils on stretched canvas, 30×40 cm.
Tag: traditional
Romanian traditional thatched house
Romanian traditional thatched house, now on display at the Village Museum “Astra” in Sibiu, Romania Pen & ink drawing in my sketchbook
La Casbah d’Alger
I am starting a series of sketches on the Kasbah of Algiers (La Casbah d’Alger), an UNESCO World Heritage Site. There will be studies based on my own photos and on photos from the internet, with the purpose of allowing me to get familiar with the traditional architecture of the […]
The thatched house
A rural landscape, with a traditional thatched house surrounded by trees, with a wooden fence and a dirt road passing nearby. Pen and ink sketch, 33 x 22.5 cm.
Hay stacking
This is a typical scene of a traditional end-of-summer activity in the rural zones at home. Hay stacking brings back childhood memories, the clear sky, the beautiful scent of the dried grass, the fresh air, the buzz of insects and a perfect peace impossible to find today. Oils on canvas, […]
A vintage washerwoman
A vintage Dutch washerwoman, painted after this preliminary sketch. Now she is depicted in her backyard, on a cobbled area, with her zinc washing tub and her manual wringing machine, her cans and her ladles. She has been busy, the clothes she has already done are hung on several clotheslines […]
Washerwoman sketch
Preliminary sketch of a Dutch washerwoman in traditional clothes, for a future oil painting. She is doing manual laundry washing in a zinc tub, surrounded with clear water cans. A manual wringing machine is placed before her. Graphite pencils on Bristol paper, size A4.
Oriental old man
Portrait of an oriental old man Charcoal on paper, 32×24 cm