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Ulrich Suberg
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I am making pictures. Living in the Netherlands.

Posting my work here and sometimes my thoughts, too. Boosting things that come up in my feed that I find beautiful […]

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Well, I get glimpses of something that I like. The crayons are starting to do interesting things. I’m still very much lost when it comes to the colors though. Anyone working regularly with these has my respect.
Colorful oil pastel drawing of a seated nude model. Done in 20 minutes A drawing made in oil pastels of a reclining nude model. They are lying on their belly. 20 minute pose. Drawing in pastels(oil) showing a seated female model, the head and lower legs are cut off. Done in 15 minutes. Drawing showing a detail of a nude body. It’s a seated nude figure done in oil pastels. 15 minute pose.
October 17, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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I am still trying out concepts and techniques to somehow get a grip on these crayons. It’s funny how I think that these would be better with some more decent proportions! Ha, I guess I have to keep practicing the basics.
Drawing made with oil pastels showing a female seated nude from the torso upwards 20 minute pose Oil pastel drawing on the blank cover of a black book. It is a nude model seated from the side, feet and head are cut off. 20 minute pose Oil pastel drawing of a seated male model (nude) 20 minute drawing A scribbly and colorful drawing made in oil pastels showing the naked torso of a male model in front. 20 minute pose
October 11, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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Today I’ll post two pages, since I forgot my life drawing sketchbook that day. Would feel disingenuous to toot a page scribbled in just 10 minutes so I’ll post two pages of quick figure sketches.
Sketchbook page full of live figure drawings in pencil. They are made with quick line works, around 2 minutes each. Sketchbook page with figure drawings drawn from life un pencil. The poses were 5 to 10 minutes.
October 6, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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Jug. Wanted to post a page a day but I didn’t get to do that for a while. I feel dissociated enough again to post my sketches for the moment.
Page of a sketchbook with a lot of really scribbly line work. There is a figure standing stiffly pouring out a jug among other meaningless doodles
October 3, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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It’s been a while, I had very little energy for social media the past weeks after my exhibition (which went pretty well actually). Will resume posting pages from my sketchbook again as well.
Drawing with oil pastels depicting a seated nude. The head is cut off and there are a few weird floating bits and bops. 20 minute pose Drawing in oil pastels of a seated nude leaning on the side. They seem to be missing a leg. Oil pastel drawing of a nude seated from the side. They seem to head is omitted, didn’t fit on the page supposedly. 20 minute pose Drawing in oil pastels of an awkward leaning nude model. The drawing is turned to fit more on the page, the original angle of the pose is anyone’s guess. 20 minute pose
October 3, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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This time, I used slightly tinted paper
Figure drawing in oil pastels of a nude seated figure. The head and lower legs are cut off. 20 minute pose Drawing in oil pastels showing a back view of a nude model. 20 minute pose Drawing of a reclined nude made in oil pastels. 20 minute pose Drawing in oil pastels of a nude model seated and their leg up. 20 minute pose
September 19, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Making some noise again for my exhibit this weekend! If by some miracle someone here has the time and is in the neighborhood, I would be delighted to show of some of the painting I have made recently. They are going to be mainly pleinair Oilpainting an and a few […]

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Oilpainting showing a row of houses in the park. There is a field of grass with shadow patterns from trees in the foreground. Oilpainting showing a house with birch tree at a road. The weather is moody and overcast Oilpainting showing a wall with graffiti A flyer for the exhibition of Ulrich Suberg the weekend of September 20/21 2025.
September 16, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Was going outside into the woods with friends to paint today. They were going to go camping but I said I’d only stay for today since there is a lot for me to do these days. Thankfully, because there was a thunderstorm starting later in the day and I could just […]

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Pleinair Oilpainting. It’s a fairly impressionistic depiction of a creek in a forest. There are logs and twigs in the water, sand and plants and stuff. Oil on panel, 18x24cm, painted in about 6 hours.
September 13, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Looking forward to the next installment of the avatar animation series. I had a conversation with an avid fan and fellow painter a few weeks back and we promised to paint our favorite avatars. I have a full plate atm so I didn’t get around to it until now. So […]

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Digital illustration with filled in lines, flat colors and slight cel shading. It shows an interpretation of the Character Kyoshi from the Avatar animation series.
September 13, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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Still struggling, but I think I am slowly getting a hang of the coloring, at least?
Pastel drawing of a reclining nude from the side Pastel drawing of a sitting nude model Pastel drawing of a nude mode in a lying pose
September 12, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Bad weather
Sketchbook page. It shows an imaginary scene in a village like environment and a ball of eyes and mulch in the sky.
September 12, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Ik ben super bezig met het oprichten van mijn expositie and zoals altijd ook heel erg nerveus and onrustig. Heb tot nu toe nog nooit mijn spullen geadverteerd hier op Mastodon, zal het nu wel doen. Mijn excuses ervoor, doe het ook niet vaak, zo’n solo […]

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Flyer for an art exhibition by Ulrich Suberg. Dates are 20/21 September and the location is the cultuurkerkje in Winssen, Netherlands. Aside from that, there are two pictures shown from two paintings in that exhibition. A big one with water and containers and a small one with scaffolding.
September 8, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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My phone tells me there’s a face in there.
Sketchbook page showing several attempts at figure doodles.
September 7, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Here’s another page. Was inspired by the shapes and lines of @helveticablanc , but found out that my talents and abilities aren’t enough to understand their skills. Oh well.
A page from a sketchbook showing pencil lines. Depicted are random figures, forms and abstracted designs. Oh, and a bunch of drawings of ink bottles for some reason.
September 6, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Alright, here is another page from my sketchbook.
Sketchbook page with a bunch of pencil drawings. They are drawn quite faintly and not very well.
September 5, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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I’ve started doing figure drawings again after summer break. Trying to wrap my head around oil pastels, it’s a fun medium but still quite unfamiliar. I hope to be able to get some grip with it. I plan to start another reply thread with my […]

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Pastel drawing of a naked female model. They are kneeling and the head is visible. The drawing is quite rough and simplified. 20 minute pose Drawing with oil pastels of a female nude model. The drawing is cut of below the head and above the ankle. The model is sitting. 20 minute pose Pastel drawing of a female nude reclining model. Done in 20 minutes. Quick rough pastel drawing of a reclining female model. 20 minute pose
September 5, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Doing another construction attempt. The idea is to push a drawing until it brakes. Cubes/perspective looks good? Slap those bones in! Bones look good? Put on the muscles. It works? Get surface anatomy and […]

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Sketchbook page. It shows a few figures in the nude crudely drawn in pencil but also with some hatching to establish a basic illusion of light and form.
August 28, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Another Page, this one is really quite random I think. No drawing that stands out to me.
Sketchbook page. Not much else really, a page scribbled full with pencil lines.
August 27, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Uugh well my addled brain remembered to post another sketchbook page today. Enjoy. Yes, they are looking at you, don’t worry about it.
Sketchbook page with a bunch of stickfigures looking at the viewer
August 26, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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I was able to go to portrait painting at #dekaai here in Nijmegen after a while. I’ve been so busy this summer with trying to make a living basically that I couldn’t get as many portrait sessions in as I wanted. Maybe next year.

#portraitpainting #portrait […]

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Oilpainting showing a Portrait of a person with a lot of frilly hair.
August 24, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Alright, this page has a few faces in it.
Sketchbook page showing an assortment of imaginary heads drawn in pencil
August 23, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Alright, I’m back home and will continue my quest of showing off my sketchbook to the public.
Sketchbook page. It contains a bunch of pencil scribbles and a figure with a bit more render. Lines and things.
August 22, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Ending the Trip to my old school with this cast painting. Well, the casts were locked away, but we’ll make do! :D

Trying to paint reflections when doing alla prima was probably a terrible idea, but overall I like what came out of it.

#castpainting #academicart […]

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Oilpainting showing several rows of plaster busts behind the glass door of a locked cabinet. Oil on panel, 24 x 30 cm painted in roughly 6 hours
August 18, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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The model also sat for portretschilderen in the afternoon. I missed one session but could still get four three hour sessions in. I struggled a lot with trying to get an idea and trying to resonate with the painting. I think I was thrown off by the skin tones […]

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Portrait painting in oils. It depicts a young woman with blonde hair that is looking at the viewer directly.
August 17, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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The fellowship trip for my school’s alumni here is coming to an end and I got to wrap up a longpose that we were painting for five days. pose was super hard and intricate but the model wanted the challenge and did a stellar job! Incredible to see the difference […]

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Oilpainting of an academic standing female nude. It’s academic. It’s nude. Anatomy and stuff. Cropped to around 15 x 40 cm oil on panel
August 16, 2025 at 9:43 PM