Light!

Coming to the beach I look at what I like most, and sometimes nothing clear stands out.

Then you sit down and absorb more sensitive, in a rel...

In 8 Steps.

The slides in the video show the steps in this painting. Going from a all blank canvas to having it filled can be done pretty fast. Then ...

Yellow Long Grass.

Here I was in Gelderland, a different part of Holland, more to the east.
Skies are different there, compared to the west; where th...

Clearly Summer!

This was painted when ahead there was a music festival, far away but you could hear sounds, for two days, and on the second day I pai...

Beautiful patterns.

You can have fun with contrasts. Lowering the clouds' darkness also affects the light areas, playing with a darker palette: as I ...

Compositions.

We call these 'sheep clouds' in Holland...perhaps a universal wording? Here these were a lot bigger but a similar pattern contrasted th...

Good Things Come.

On the last evening of the class I painted the red one.

It was a cloudy grey bluish start (not much going on) and later all pinks ...

The vertical way that light influences all.

With my sunset class on the beach. I demo-ed most starts and then we painted what we found. Of course, a ...

What a photo can't display.

Aw! This was a cherry on top.

Nature is of course so grand that it will exceed anything (anything we paint or can photog...

Autumn & Fantastic Skies.

Something you do not see in the videos or photos is the winds, and the cold.

Often I did wear two coats. Making fun 'Autum...