1900?

Another good day, similar weather, cold enough for a jacket, yet more people around.
Getting used to painting sand again. It's more a critical...

'Colors' enter the beach again.

Sunny here, though, as it was still cold, not as many people around, but finally they dropped a bit of their dark...

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...

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....

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...

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...

Beautiful patterns.

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

Compositions.

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

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,...