Towering storm clouds

driving through storm clouds

It is peaceful inside.

Very merry Christmas

and peaceful outside.

but in many places in this world the weather is dreadful.

driving home

24 x 30″  acrylic on stretched canvas   art for sale    PayPal

with my last paintings I recorded the weather the way we will see it very frequently

. . . → Read More: Towering storm clouds

NOVEMBER

colors in the garden

Just about December, this came fast. After a wonderful late, long stretched out sunny summer spell our winter weather is back.

So are we ready to think of Christmas? I will bet that we are not “on course “ this year.

Thanksgiving is gone – Halloween came and went – time is running.

But you . . . → Read More: NOVEMBER

COLORS IN THE RAIN

in the rain #2

Rain can be beautiful. Now that the “never ending” wet spring is finely over, I can reflect on the images the rain had produced with admiration. While the wet stuff came down – all I could think is: “stop doing this’. Now I stand here at my easel and paint the rain, the warm . . . → Read More: COLORS IN THE RAIN

INSPIRED BY BLUE

Himalayan 001

Last year the Himalayan poppies amazed me because they ignored rain and cold and came up (roses) I mean –  blue poppies this year they had the pleasure to get 2 weeks of good weather to develop their amazing blue blossoms and now it rains and it is cold – guess what – these flowers don’t give a (…) they are here on time never . . . → Read More: INSPIRED BY BLUE

Where I should live – but don’t

006.jpgWatten meer

   A tidal way (Priel) Photo

The North-See is way out, it is low tide

“Wattenmeer”    Wadden Sea – Mad Flats,  under national heritage protection:

 between the Island and the Mainland       acrylic/canvas   30×56

Stille Wasser sind tief (Still waters are deep)      acrylic/canvas   30×56″

Lighthouse Island . . . → Read More: Where I should live – but don’t

Interesting collection – close up

aurora

The Changeling – finding my own style – the beginning is not the end – the end will be a beginning

Aurora,  or the white raven of Port Clement ( Haida Gwai)    oil/canvas          50×30”

On the Edge  , Kaslo B.C.    oil/canvas           34×34”

2 out of 10 Kaslo B.C.  Logging controversy   oil/canvas          . . . → Read More: Interesting collection – close up

Colored Clouds

cloud #7 greeting cloud

Do you see clouds in white or dark only?  I don’t, I imagine all kinds of colors in wind and weather or sun and friendly skies, just like a child sees castles in the sky – why not see colors in the sky.

A friendly color, wet color, stormy color, dreamy soft, wild or . . . → Read More: Colored Clouds

Wassily Kandinsky

Between sea and sky

   1898                   1909

    1926                         1944

The central theory of Wassily Kandinsky’s abstraction idea was that there is such a thing as inner necessity that is capable of determining the outward form of . . . → Read More: Wassily Kandinsky

A Do Your Own — Spring

birdcorner

So, I really had it – cold – wet – at least 5 – FIVE  – little flowering shrubs did give up living because of wet feet

S0 —-  now I made my own picture garden,  first I painted – then I photographed…

and then I did blog – and then -

well—back to . . . → Read More: A Do Your Own — Spring

COLOR MIX

color mix

 

Color mix

Spring is late this year again.

Only the most daring flowers playing peek a boo – the rain will ruin the magnolia blossoms – the potato probably will rot in the ground and the spinach is hardly visible –

So I went out there with a jam jar and collected colors . . . → Read More: COLOR MIX