Open rose

Watercolor, 14x19 cm
On Fabriano Artistico white rough paper, 300 gms

I wish you all a nice weekend and beautiful week days ahead.

Newly-opened rose

Watercolor, 27x35 cm

I wished I had loosen up a little bit in this painting.

Have a good day to everyone.

Hello!

I am back from my almost three months travel to Asia. It was quite exhausting but I enjoyed and accomplished many things during the trip. Right now I am recuperating from a severe sore throat, cold and coughing which I caught after a day of arriving back here in Holland. This was I thought due to the change in weather condition. In Asia where I went to, the temperature was always above 25 degrees centigrade, while here it is always freezing. Anyway, yesterday I felt missing my paint brushes, so I decided to use them and play with my watercolors. If I did not paint for sometime, usually what I do to start again is to just play with colors. Below is one of the two sketches I made yesterday, a reddish pink pear.

Christmas cactus and Asia trip

Our christmas cactus plants are full of flowers. They are very colorful. The first image is my sketch of a newly opened flower done a few days ago.

Tomorrow, I will be travelling to Asia. I will only have a tablet with me, so I think I will not be posting any painting for sometime, but I will check your blogs. Thank you everyone for staying as my blogger friends.

Poinsettia II

I managed to do this small poinsettia sketch while recovering from not so friendly fever and cold. I did this from memory. I am not yet 100 percent fine but I am almost there. Thank you everyone for visiting my blog and I wish you a wonderful week ahead.

Albatross

I sketched this albatross while resting with high fever and cold. I felt relax afterwards.
Thanks God, I am feeling a little bit better now.
I used as reference the image from a local magazine but the sketch composition is different from the original image.

Firecrest

Watercolor, 28x38 cm

I wanted to paint this little firecrest in a loose style. But I can see that I was not successful to do that. Maybe I'll try next time.

The 'hunebed' in Havelterberg

According to Dutch-English dictionary, the word 'hunebed' means megalithic tomb. Based on some literatures, the presence of these tombs in the northern part of the Netherlands made people wonder where those big stones came from. Some reported that they came from Scandinavia. For some history of the 'hunebedden' in the Netherlands, visit http://hunebedden.nl/engels.htm and http://www.hunebeddenwijzer.nl/.

The above painted 'hunebed' is in Havelterberg in the city of Havelte. It is only about half of the long line of big stones I saw last year.

This painting is in watercolor, and the size is 30x40 cm.

Dutch farm house in Twente

I have been thinking to paint this farm house since perhaps three years ago. I don't know exactly why it was only two weeks ago that I finally began painting it. Today I finished the painting and I plan to frame it.
The farm house stands near the former military terrain in Enschede which is close to where I live. I always see this house every time I take a walk in that area. I never really have the chance to know its owner but it seems that it is renovated and modern inside the house.
The painting is about 24x30 cm, in watercolor.

two red radishes

A try on rough Fabriano Artistico extra white watercolor paper. About 18x 24 cm.