Category: Art

Things about art history, the art market or just some nice images from artists around all the world and all the times.

Pines at the Dunes

July 8, 2024

Watercolor and ink painting of pine trees and flowers on dunes.

12 years after joining the Noordwijk Plein-Air Festival, I went back to paint at the dunes of the North Sea. This work at beautiful spot under pine trees, turned into a major struggle about the material and weather and subject. It was worth it though.....

Grape Vines Under a Garden Roof

June 7, 2024

Thumbnail of watercolor painting of a sun-lit roof with grape vines growing beneath.

An artwork I did last year in a garden in our village. I wanted to catch the effect of the warm sunlight seeping through the roof onto the grape vines...

Landsmeer Portrait Series – Irma

April 24, 2024

Watercolor and ink portrait of a blonde woman with a blue scarf - with flowing colors.

A portrait of a fellow artist in our local Art Collective. I took the opportunity to try a rough watercolor paper. ..

A Couple of Ink Figure Drawings

April 10, 2024

Figure drawing of a wheel-chaired model

Wow, it's been four years since I last posted some of my figure drawings here. Time to remedy that, with 6 drawings of the last months...

Fish Pond in a Silo

March 6, 2024

Watercolor and ink painting of an old silo, filled with a pond. With a red couch in the center.

With this plein air artwork, I have tried a more surrealist painting approach of a building I spotted last year at an cultural terrain north of Amsterdam...

Landsmeer Portrait Series – Jan

February 20, 2024

Watercolor portrait of a man with ashen hair and glasses.

For a recent exhibition I finished a portrait of a local, I started last year. This time I tried to use colors more sparsely. I’m often planning to reduce the amount of colors in these portrait paintings. But once I start, I see so many nice variations that I find it hard to hold myself … Continue reading Landsmeer Portrait Series – Jan →

Geodesic Greenhouse

December 18, 2023

Thumbnail of a painting showing a greenhouse

In the summer I spent some time outside, painting this marvelous little greenhouse architecture, as I found it at the open cultural terrain in the north of Amsterdam...

Landsmeer Portrait Series – Alice

September 21, 2023

Watercolor Portrait Alice

This round the model for our portrait sessions was my daughter Alice. ..

Willow at the Water

July 11, 2023

Watercolor Painting of a Willow

Last summer I've stood under a willow for this painting. I have fond memories of the tranquil spot, surrounded by water...