Spring is in the air! Even in the city, I smell blossoms everywhere. When I looked out of our bedroom window, I saw this inspiring urban spring composition. I felt like painting fast and thick, so I did. Cadmium yellow is really a color you can’t do without when making spring paintings. Normally, I wouldn’t use pure colors of paint…
Art Studio Area in West German city In Enschede, the Dutch city where I live, it’s easy to take a train to Germany. It only takes one hour to get from Enschede to the West German city of Münster. In Münster, there’s a lot of artistic stuff going on. When you only have one day to see Münster, I would…
Sunset photography collage with your iPhone An inspiring idea to start with in the new year: collect a sunset every day, always using the same viewpoint. I made the sunset collage you see below already in 2012. Sunset photography doesn’t have to be difficult, when high resolutions and realistic colors aren’t the most important things. I made my photo’s simply…
A story about a fascinating artist and person I already knew the artist Lucian Freud (1922 – 2011), one of the greatest painters of his time. Or maybe I should say: I knew a few of his works of art. But I didn’t have have a clear picture of the man behind the paintings. If the person Lucian Freud is also a…
A little art gallery and a book store in one, how nice is that? Again, I ‘discovered’ the place where this is really happening in my own home town, Enschede, The Netherlands. I was looking for a new art book for some inspiration, when I saw this red arrow, challenging me to go the next floor. There I found a…
On a nice sunny day in October, we walked to the 21rozendaal art gallery in Roombeek, the area of Enschede where we live. It’s a gallery with free entrance, and it’s always nice to check out the newest exhibition, organized by Concordia. Sometimes I see a few things I like, other times the works of art are not my taste.…