Painting The Brightness.

We went back, a week of sunshine. Late afternoons and evenings. All to paint the wonder of the sparklings on the water.
Reap...

Make the time.

Yes, back to the beach!

I had let stupid jobs take precedence, and I was really getting sad indoors, until we said 'f-it' we're going...

An outdoor (welcome) side-effect = liveliness!

A fun-to-create-cow-painting that continues where the previous one (#182) stopped. More 'frivolous', s...

1900?

Another good day, similar weather, cold enough for a jacket, yet more people around.
Getting used to painting sand again. It's more a critical t...

'Colors' enter the beach again.

Sunny here, though, as it was still cold, not as many people around, but finally they dropped a bit of their dark clo...

Light!

Coming to the beach I look at what I like most, and sometimes nothing clear stands out.

Then you sit down and absorb more sensitive, in a rel...

In 8 Steps.

The slides in the video show the steps in this painting. Going from a all blank canvas to having it filled can be done pretty fast. Then ...

Yellow Long Grass.

Here I was in Gelderland, a different part of Holland, more to the east.
Skies are different there, compared to the west; where th...

Clearly Summer!

This was painted when ahead there was a music festival, far away but you could hear sounds, for two days, and on the second day I pai...

Beautiful patterns.

You can have fun with contrasts. Lowering the clouds' darkness also affects the light areas, playing with a darker palette: as I ...