I'll be back...

Lieve blogvrienden,

Na twee en een half jaar schilderen (bijna dagelijks) en 2 jaar bloggen (één à twee keer per week),
 ga ik een tijdje blogpauze houden.

Maar… ik kom terug, ik beloof het!

Dankjewel voor al jullie steun door de jaren!
Een hug en een appel voor jullie allemaal!

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Dear blogfriends,

After two and a half years of painting (almost daily) and 2 years of blogging (once or twice a week), 
I am going to take a blog break.

But ... I’ll be back, I promise!

Thank you for all your support through the years! 
A hug and an apple for all of you!

HAPPY PAINTING EVERYONE!

Groene weiden... Green pastures...

Vorig jaar waren mijn zoon en ik in de provincie Noord-Brabant, een prachtig stuk van Nederland met bos afgewisseld met boerderijen, maisvelden en weelderige groene weiden.
Het leven is goed in het Brabantse land, zegt het liedje.

Last year my son and I were in the province of North Brabant, a lovely part of Holland with woodland interspersed with farms, cornfields and lush green meadows. 
Life is good in Brabant, says the song.

IJslollies... Popsicles...

Voor mijn blogvrienden in Zuid-Europa waar het erg warm is momenteel, een beetje verkoeling.

For my blogfriends in Southern Europe where it's very hot at the moment, a little refreshment.

Pears... step by step...

See for demo with download here.

Both Irina and Pat asked me to make a video recently. My first thought was: have you seen what I threw away in the past week?! :) Well, a video I cannot do, but I can do a step by step photo series. You know I am absolutely no expert nor a teacher, but I can share what I have learned.

I used the same reference photo of the pears in my previous post, it is Challenge nr. 1 of Paint and Draw Together.

I made a quick drawing and started painting the pears and most of the background yellow, careful to leave the highlights white.

While that was still wet....

....I added sapgreen.... and vermillion red.

When the red threatened to take over the whole pear.... oops...

.... I used paper towel to remove the excess and soften the edges. Tip: try not to go back in again with the brush, but control the paint by tilting the paper.

I also added more yellow to both pears, making use of the nice property of yellow (and also clean water) to push other colours away.

Since it was all very wet....

....I then waited till the whole painting dried. When totally dry I carefully erased most of the pencil lines.

Then I added ultramarine blue, and softened edges here and there with a damp brush.

Then I added shadows and the last finishing touches....

and tadaaaaah.....

Pears for Irina and Pat

Paddestoelen... Mushrooms...

Druk, druk, druk.

Dit is alles wat ik kan laten zien op dit moment.

Een stilleven dat ik deze week heb geschilderd. 

Naar een foto van Maria Sheehan op Paint My Photo.

Busy, busy, busy.

This is all I can show you at the moment.

A still life I painted this week. 

From a photo by Maria Sheehan on Paint My Photo.

Bananas... Bananen...

Geschilderd van een foto van Steven James Gibb op Paint My Photo.

Painted from a photo by Steven James Gibb on Paint My Photo.

Red red red....

Een paar aardbeienschetsen. De modellen smaakten heerlijk!

A couple of strawberry sketches. The models tasted delicious!