Bastiaan Mol ... Bastiaan Mol (1954) is a dutch visual artist based in Rotterdam, Netherlands. He never works digital but prefers materials such as watercolours, gouache, pen+ink, graphite, acrylics and pastels to work with. Bastiaan Mol prefers working after live models,but also finds inspiration in photos of the web that however are changed usually in something completely different. Bastiaan Mol got his art education in Belgium at the Academy for Arts and Crafts (Illustration design) in Antwerp (1986-1991). Subjects for his paintings are mainly the male figure in various materials and styles , but also animals (mainly birds) , music inspired portraits , the old Hollywood ,etc.