First post for 2017, a bright magenta rose

This bright magenta rose is the first painting I worked on to start the new year. I love bright colors because they enhance my positivity and motivation to do things. 

Happy New Year

To all my blogger friends and other visitors to my blog, thank you very much for your continuous visits and for always leaving beautiful and encouraging comments to my paintings and sketches. I honestly appreciate your efforts of taking time to visit this blog. I am wishing you all a very prosperous, healthy and blessed 2017. Cheers!

Brasserie 'Het Vrijdag'

The building is called 'Het Vrijdag'. There, one can eat and drink, hold celebrations, meetings, workshops and receptions. See http://hetvrijdag.nl for more about the place. The site does not say about the building but it looks like an old Dutch farm house. It is about ten minutes walk from where I live.

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.

Peaceful looking robin

I love robins, they are very peaceful looking birds. And they are not so complicated to paint. I did this small painting directly on paper without pencil sketch. Have a good weekend.

A rose for a special day

Today, we sent this small painting as a wedding anniversary card to a couple who are very dear to us. Hope they will have a wonderful time on their special day.

A small rose sketch

Did this small sketch a week ago as a practice before I started a much bigger painting. Wish everyone a rosy weekend.

Rose leaves

I realized that I have not been painting for already more than one month now. The reasons are many but this morning while I was reading online news, I suddenly picked up one of my brushes and with my cotman watercolor travel set on the table I came up with this little sketch of rose leaves. This is what I like with watercolors, we can just immediately start with it without much preparations.

I had a wonderful holiday in Rigi, Zwitserland and in Lake Como in Italy. I may share some photos I took during the trip. Good day to everyone.

Lovely rose

I painted this rose during my practice time in August last year but it is only now that I am posting it here. This was inspired by someone else work but with so many paintings I saw from youtube and other sources I could not remember anymore whose work it is.
I will be going for a vacation in Zwitserland and Italy, so I wish you all a fruitful and enjoyable painting time. Until then.