Noordwijk Festival II

Posted on July 9, 2012 by Thomas | Oil Paintings | Tags: , , , , |

Some more pictures from the Nordwijk Festival.
This is the second painting I did outside there. Was kinda funny how it made all passersby shout “klaprozen” (Dutch for poppies) – I’ve heard the word 50 times that day. So named the picture this way.
The original is sold, but I’ll create a limited number of prints of it.

Klaprozen

Klaprozen – oil on 25×50 cm linen canvas

Here is a work-in-progress.

Klaprozen Work In progress

I started with a blue underpainting, so that the red tones would come out stronger in the end.

Also there visiting: a beetle stinkbug nymph, with a triangle and three stripes…

green stinkbug nymph

…nature is weird sometimes.

  1. [...] last update from the Nordwijk Festival (part I, part II). One woman who saw me painting the earlier flower picture told me about a whole field of poppies [...]


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