A Toast to Bonnard. After visiting the “Bonnard” exhibition in Wuppertal, I set out to do a playful sketch with some aspects of his work in mind, particularly colour, perspective, an interior (table) scene and a cat making an appearance. I used my mother’s dining room as a base for a rough and distorted sketch of an interior and then added the rest from imagination. Ink pen and watercolour.
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2010Sep 205
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2010Sep 5
tags: vineyard | Watercolours | wineVineyard tasting. With the wine harvest season coming up in this part of the world, grape picking and wine tasting holidays are being promoted in the media accompanied by “tasty” pictures. One of them in particular caught my eye and I used it for a watercolour sketch.
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2010Aug 21
tags: flowers | Still Lifes | WatercoloursSome sunflowers in the garden broke off during a storm and thus wound up in a rather small vase on the dining room table, still looking great. I tried to catch this in a watercolour. Not particularly satisfied with the result, but still, here it is.
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2010Aug 15
tags: Billy Duffy | Pinkpop | The Cult | WatercoloursSun King. In 1986, in the wake of their successful album “Love”, British rock band The Cult performed at the Pinkpop festival in Geleen in the south of The Netherlands, near to where I live. As a young rock music and guitar enthusiast I enjoyed this performance very much, especially guitarist Billy Duffy’s powerful guitar riffs and his use of mouthwatering Gretsch hollowbody electric guitars. In 1992 the band was back at Pinkpop (now in Landgraaf, the town where the festival is organized since 1988 and also the town where I now live) but this time delivered an ill-famed performance leading to the band being banned from future perfomances at the festival. Yesterday, 18 years later and after the ban was lifted, The Cult played the Pinkpop stage once again, now during the festivals Classic edition. This time I didn’t go, but a picture in last weeks paper announcing the band’s return to the festival and showing Billy Duffy in a heroic rock guitarist pose with one of his Gretsches triggered me to do a sketch instead. “Sun King”, the title of the opening track from The Cult’s 1989 “Sonic Temple” album again showcasing Billy’s guitar work, seemed to be an appropriate title for this sketch. Ink pen and watercolour.
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2010Aug 5
tags: Etretat | france | landscapes. | Normandy | WatercoloursDark clouds over Étretat. Another sketch of Étretat, this time based on a photo in a photography exhibition in Giverny, Normandy. Ink pen and watercolour.
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2010Aug 3tags: Watercolours
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2010Jul 25
tags: flowers | WatercoloursA huge agapanthus on the backyard terrace came into bloom this week and provided a nice subject for a quick watercolour sketch.
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2010Jul 21
tags: Etretat | france | landscapes. | Normandy | WatercoloursCliffs at Étretat. The coastline around Étretat is truly magnificent. During a recent visit there were several photography exhibitions going on throughout Normandy and it was a popular subject for many excellent works on display. This watercolour is based on one of them.
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2010May 14
tags: animals | Hungry beaks | WatercoloursHungry beaks. A few weeks ago a couple of blue tits occupied a nest box in my mother’s backyard. Judging by the frequency with which they now are flying in food there must be a lot of hungry beaks to feed inside. I used a picture in a magazine, conveniently showing a blue tit feeding its young, for a sketch of what it must look like in there. Ink pen and watercolour.
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2010Apr 23
tags: Apartments | complex | Shachihoko | WatercoloursSketching my Apartment complex just before moving out.. I’m going to miss this place, I really love the area and the layout of my flat.. The complex is really close to the mountain base on the west side of Las Vegas near Red Rock. I’m not really too keen about relocating either…
