Tag Archive: landscape


Cumbria

New painting, oil on canvas. 120 x 180 cm

A few years ago I visited the northern part of England. Near Adrian Wall. This painting is the result of sketches I made and pictures I took.

On the origin of species, number 3, oil on canvas.

70 x 90 cm

On the origin 2

This painting, 130 x 160 cm, oil on canvas, was made during the period I worked on the painting Evolution 1 (painting of decembre).

It consists of a lot of different layers. Sometimes even with the same color (red over red over red over red). This technique (called “glaceren” in Dutch) makes that the colors increase in depth (sort of a velvet texture).

It’s very difficult to catch this on camera. But belief me, when you’re in front of this one, it almost seems possible to stick your hand inside the painting.

This is an old technique, used for instance by Rembrandt van Rijn, the famous Dutch painter (see example).

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Lisbon, first sketches

First sketches, acrylic on paper

20 x 30 cm

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For this month, the painting Evolution 1 is in the picture.

It’s an oilpainting, 120 x 150 cm. Later more information.

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In the pictures below, I mixed a few photo’s a took in Germany.

It were  pictures of landscapes and a picture of a tree-trunk (probably struck and split by lightning).

They look almost the same, but in the first one, the landscape and the clouds are more visible.

I am thinking of using these pictures as a starting point for my paintings. I prefer the second one. Because of the colors (the wood in the left corner), but also because this one almost looks like  a painting itself. For instance the white horizontal “brush” stroke.

It’s only a starting point. It may well be, that the final painting is very, very different from the pictures I am showing you here.

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Oilpainting nr10

Oil on canvas, 110 x90 cm

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River

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Chalk on paper, 32 x 25 cm

in the hills

This is a mix of a drawing I made and a picture.

65 x 50 cm

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An oilpainting a made a few years ago.

100 x 90 cm