Gettimg Back into Art

Coming out of hibernation is a slower process this year. 

 

 

When I can get my android to share photos with my

computer, I'll post my new works, soon.

Looking for Places

My painting equipment finally arrived after a three month journey from Holland.  I'm looking for places to set up my easel.

Moving To Texas September 1st

I will have a new apartment

and have found one I really like,

just big enought for me,

my paints and

easel.

 

 

It will be a new life of art

where I'm free from cooking and maintaining

a home. Somehow the two don't

go together, cooking

and

painting.

At least not for me.

 

 

When I am painting I get totally engrosed

forgetting the time, forgetting to eat.

I do eat a good protein rich

meal before I start.

 

These are two of my best teachers,

Rembrandt first taught me about light and shadow.

Vincent van Gogh taught me

how to put my emotions in my paintings.

There are many others who have

been my teachers. I've stolen

the best from them all.

 

 

I've walked through Monet's gardens and

seen the light.

 

So come along with me to Texas where

I hope to be painting soon.

I'm beginning a new life and a new decade.

It will be a celebration of life.

 

 

One of the greatest art teachers of all,

Robert Henri.



Get Over It.....Just Quit.

 This one has been a long journey.

Three months it's taken me to become satisfied enough with it

to sign my name.  It's finished or I quit.

 

These two photos taken with my android Phone.

 

 

What began as a quick, alla prima painting taking many twists and turns.

It reflected my state of being these past three months.

 

 

April, the beginning

 

My favorite and I should have

left it alone. But the realist in me has a constant  

battle with the expressionist.

 



May, contrasts added but the blacks were a Mistake.

Here is where I started to overdo the painting thinking it needed

more depth.

June, thought I needed more contrasts. I used a

palette knife in this one for texture.

I was wrong.

Ugh!

 

Ever determined to get it right I kept on with my colors.

Late June, I took out the darks and replaced them

with dark green midtones.

I am satisfied now but it has been a struggle.

Never has a painting taken me so long.

 

You have a dozen children and all are fine except one.

You don't quit until you find the solution

for the problem child. This is mine.

That is the artist and teacher

in me.

 

 

 

 

 

 

My Painting Lessons Book on Sale at Blurb

In thr right column you can click

on this image and the book will display.

It is a revision of the first edition with more pages

and descriptions.

Portrait Painters

These are the protrait painters from

Schildersweek in Domburg.

Since I'm also a portraitist I'm always interested

in how other artists see their subjects.

In a limited amount of time

these painters

whipped out some amazing

portraits for which they were paid

50 euros apiece. Pretty good for some thirty minute paintings?

 

Not a portrait painter...but he was fun to watch with the impasta paint

dripping down his canvas.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Montmart in Domburg

Jenny stands in front of the house she painted.

This is Montmart Day at

Schildersweek

in

Domburg.

The painting but from a different view and composition.

 

The Schilderen/Painters

 All he paints are seascapes.

 

 He's painting a house across the street.

 

 She's painting the people shelling tiny shrimp,

Garnalen.

 

 Portrait painter, he's a good one.

 

 Painters painting bath house doors

for the beach houses.

 

 Famous Dutch Painter, Enno

 

 He owns a gallery in Vlissingen.

 

Realistic watercolor painter painting the hotel.

 It's hard to capture this little boy.

 

 Artists from different countries participating

in Schildersweek.

 

 

Two Dutch women in traditional costumes pick up the shrimp shells.