A Shiny Green Pear

 A shiny green pear in dark background. I used acrylic paints on canvas sheet.

May you all have a good and healthy week.

Three grape fruits in oil

Grape fruits in oil, 7x5 inches on canvas.

Starting tomorrow I will be on travel again so I might not be able 

to post something for a while.

Hope you are all having a wonderful start of the year. 

A plate of fruits

 A week ago I didn't know what to paint. Then I thought of our available fruits in the kitchen and then set them up on our breakfast plate. And here is the painting version of that set up.

A Jug

This jug was part of a number of set ups I saw at Rijksmuseum Twente (10 July 2018) intended for its visitors to try their painting skills. I did not try but took photos of some of the set ups including this jug.
This painting was already framed when I took the image above, so you can notice the reflections of the glass.
I will be travelling again for a long duration, so I might not be posting for some time. I wish you all a productive and enjoyable painting time.

Golden delicious

Let me tell you where I got these apples. Last July, while we were driving back to the Netherlands from our holiday in France, somewhere along the way in Neufchateau, we stopped at Lidl supermarket to buy something to eat. Inside, I saw a container of super fresh golden delicious apples and decided to buy some pieces of them. At Campanile hotel Pont-a-Mousson (France) where we stayed for a night, while we were relaxing after dinner, we craved for apples.  We didn't order dessert in the hotel's restaurant because I thought having apples is a healthier option. But before I could let the apples to be eaten, I took photos of them which I later used as reference in this simple painting. 

I hope all of you are enjoying the holiday season. 

Fruits and veggies on our table

We eat various fruits and veggies but those ones in the painting are some that are always present in our kitchen. It is December, so "Have a nice holiday season everyone."

Violet pink roses with a hint of yellow

Finished this rose painting about three weeks ago (2May2017). 

It is in watercolor on arches cold-pressed paper.

Rose from Enrum

Inspired by a rose from the garden of Louis and Eliza who are living in Enrum, Holland. When we visited them, I took some pictures of their roses and used one of them as reference for this painting. The original colors of the rose are somewhat light pink with a hint of orange. I used watercolors and arches paper.

Our fruit tray

We eat various fruits that are in season. But the fruits in the tray in this painting are the ones we take everyday. Other fruits can be absent but not banana, oranges and apples.
I wish everyone a nice and pleasant weekend.

a quick watercolor study

I know that I can do more to make this painting study better, but I decided to just leave it as is.

watercolors and candle

Two weeks ago, I saw the original image of this painting from the book of Lisbet Braren-Weinrich which was being used by one member of our painting group. The book is in Dutch and its title is Hoe schilder ik in aquarel - stilleven. I was curious of how the texture in the image was done. So I asked someone from our group and she said I can use candle on the paper. When I read the book, indeed the author suggested that one of the ways to produce the texture is to use a candle. I decided to do an exercise and used the author's image. On rubbing the candle on the paper, I did it either before or after applying some watercolors on the paper. Obviously, I did the rubbing of the candle when the paper was dry. And so the above painting is my version of the author's painting shown in the book.

Juicy Pears and Julie's notecards

I named this painting 'Juicy Pears'. This is one of the paintings I included during our exhibition last Sunday. I also selected a few from those paintings which I already posted here while the rest I hope to post them here later. The visitors to the exhibition were not so many as last year. One reason could be that there were other two  exhibitions in the same day, so the visitors were divided. Anyway, everybody in the group were happy and satisfied that the entire day went well. Some of us were able to sell and some did not because some of their paintings are not for sale or have already been sold.

This painting is done in watercolor, and the size is 30 x 40 cm (11.75 x 15.75 inches).

Ik noemde dit schilderij 'Sappige Peren'. Het is een van de schilderijen die ik laatste zondag meegenomen heb in onze expositie. Ik heb ook een paar schilderijen gekozen van die ik hier al heb getoond. De bezoekers aan de tentoonsteling waren niet so veel als vorig jaar, misschien vanwege twee andere tentoonstelingen die ook in dezelfde dag plaats vonden. Maar we zijn gelukkig en tevreden met wat tijdens de dag gebeurde. Sommige van ons hebben iets verkocht terwijl de andere hebben gekozen om niets te verkopen. Ik heb dit schilderij gemaakt in aquarel, en de maat is 30 x 40 cm (11.75 x 15.75 inches).

Note Cards from Miss Julie Hill

Last week I won a set of five notecards from Julie (click to visit her blog), the one I chose was Pretty Pansies. Yesterday I got them, they are very beautiful. There was also a magnet -the size of a namecard - inside the pack. This magnet will not be alone in front of our refrigerator because I have already a collection of magnets of other artists. Thank you very much Julie. See below the notecards.

Julie's 'Pretty Pansies'



Still life project - learning from others

This is based from Frisnet's work which I found in his book with a step by step instructions. I guess practicing from other's work is also one of the best ways of learning painting techniques. Once we are already familiar with the various techniques, then we can develop our own way of painting. In this painting, both wet-and-wet and wet on dry techniques were used. I am not yet comfortable with the former technique. I find its result very unpredictable. I envy those who love the wet-and-wet method, but I'm trying.

Dit is gebaseerd op het werk van Frisnet dat ik in zijn boek vond met stap voor stap opdrachten. Ik denk dat een van de manieren om de technieken te leren is om de projecten van anderen te volgen. Als we al bekend zijn met de technieken dan is het onze beurt om onze eigen manier te ontdekten. In dit schilderij heb ik de nat-en-nat en nat-op-droog technieken gebruikt. Ik ben nog niet gewend met de eerstgenoemde techniek. Ik vind het onvoorspelbaar. Ik ben jaloers op sommige schilders die  al expert zijn met de techniek. Maar ik blijf het proberen.

Holland's prunes

A practice study