Summer Atmosphere.

Here a sunset that's not only about the sun. 
For me it was a 'last day of Summer' feeling, and I got to play with the...

On Time.

It's ALWAYS a sacrifice to catch the rising sun! Oh yes, it's hard to get up so early when it's summer. But when you do, and there...

One week after the new moon.

At the end of painting this it was pitch dark. I couldn't see the colors on the painting anymore, nor the mixes on the...

New Moon.

I knew the date of the new moon, and we went out in the early morning to watch it rise, but perhaps a new moon is SO tiny: you can't even...

Beautiful patterns.

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

But you'll have to be on time.

In the dunes, a sunrise!

I think I'll return to sunrises in the landscape more now that Autumn is starting a bit.

My...

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,...

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...