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Wednesday, 4 March 2015

Zaltbommel

Another businesstrip, this time for a seminar held in the centre of the Netherlands, in Zaltbommel.
Zalbommel is an old Holland town, located on one of the large streams, the Waal.

After the seminar I had an half hour left before dark, enough to draw and paint this scene of the harbour. But is was very cold, a bit above freezing point, 3 degrees Celsius. This meant the water on the paper dried very slowly and formed pools. It took me another half an hour to get warmed up again.
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7 comments:

  1. Anonymous5 March 2015 at 01:26

    Lovely Rene -- the colors are expressive!

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  2. irinapictures5 March 2015 at 09:44

    Colors combination, composition and "pools". Very very like them.

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  3. Rene Fijten5 March 2015 at 19:09

    Thank you Katie and Irina.
    I will admit that at first I thought the drawing was not good, but when I got home it was not so bad after all.

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  4. Miú10 March 2015 at 21:22

    I love this, Rene!

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  5. Rene Fijten10 March 2015 at 23:09

    thank you Miu

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  6. Michael Lukyniuk11 March 2015 at 13:18

    What struck me when I first saw this sketch was the realistic colours you used - I thought it was a photo. And for some reason, I didn't notice the lines you drew until I looked closer. Nicely done.

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  7. Rene Fijten14 March 2015 at 20:33

    Thank you Michael, I consider that as a great compliment.

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