A Painting A Day Postcard from Holland is a project, in which I intend to paint a small ('postcard-size') oil painting each day, and post it to this blog. I will depict everyday objects, local fruits and dutch landscapes. In this way I hope to give visitors a day-to-day impression of my life as an artist in Holland.
I was clearing out my atelier today because I have to move soon, so no time for painting unfortunately. However, this little painting turned up from under a large pile of scrap wood, so I thought why not post this one...
Still life with apple, 35x22 cm.
Go to www.postcardfromholland.com to see if this painting is still available.
posted by JVR at 4:14 PM
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Haven't been doing a lot of painting lately. Last week I got notice that I have to leave my atelier within three weeks. So I've been spending all my time calling people etc. to find a new one. One option I have is to share a workshop with Nijmegen artist Doro Krol. Today I tried out the light there, by painting this pepper...
Still life red pepper, 14x12 cm.
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posted by JVR at 4:30 PM
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Today's daily painting features another apple from my parent's garden. Tried to get some 'neo-impressionist' color into this painting. Ie. use small dabs of bright colors to mimic the effect of light..
Still life with apple, red, 14x15 cm.
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posted by JVR at 3:15 PM
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Today's daily painting features an apple from my parent's garden. The apples are not sorted like in the supermarket, so they have very irregular forms. Reading a book right now by american grand master R.S. Just read the chapter on edges. Tried to apply this information using sharp and lost edges in this painting...
Still life with apple, 14x15 cm.
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posted by JVR at 1:09 PM
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Today's daily painting is a portrait of a woman I painted from live model yesterday. Focussing on face again...
Portrait of a woman, 30x25 cm.
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posted by JVR at 10:41 AM
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Time for a portrait study again today. Still difficult. This one was done from photo. Hope to paint from live model again this evening...
Portrait sketch with green back ground, 35x34 cm.
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posted by JVR at 5:49 PM
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Todays daily painting again features an autumn leaf, to complete the autum triptych...
Still life with autumn leaf, 10x12 cm.
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posted by JVR at 10:40 PM
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Another autumn leaf in today's daily painting...
Still life with autumn leaf, red, 10x12 cm.
Go to www.postcardfromholland.com to see if this painting is still available.
posted by JVR at 7:56 PM
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It's autumn now, and the wind is blowing, it rains all the time and the sky is dark grey. Today I was walking through town, looking down at the ground, and I suddenly saw this autumn leaf. It lay there, all alone by itself.. Seemed a nice subject..
Still life with autumn leaf, 10x12 cm.
Go to www.postcardfromholland.com to see if this painting is still available.
posted by JVR at 9:53 AM
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Today's daily painting features an egg and a big shadow (right side). The shadow allows the egg to light up (large contrast) as it looks in real life, when lit with a bright light source, without having to desaturate (add lots of white) the colors too much..
posted by JVR at 5:17 PM
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See also: www.josvanriswick.com
