The Sea, #1,2,3 and 4

de zee eindelijk vrijheid en ruimte, #4

The perfect day for sailing waves

oil on linen - 20 x 140 cm

painted on location - 24 Sept. 2023

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de zee eindelijk vrijheid en ruimte, #3

The Roaring Wave

oil on linen - 20 x 140 cm

painted on location - 8 August 2023

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de zee eindelijk vrijheid en ruimte, #2

The Whispering wave

oil on linen - 20 x 140 cm

painted on location - 6 May 2023

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de zee eindelijk vrijheid en ruimte, #1

The rolling wave

oil on canvas - 20 x 140 cm

painted on location - 26 April 2023

€ 975

I decided to embark on this subject and format once again, after several years of not working on this subject/format. Characterized by a high horizon line, and the waves breaking at the foreground. I will be making  paintings of this view, of course all of them will be different, as that is also a quality of the Sea, never the same view twice. Could be simular, but never the exact view twice! 

 

 

Scheveningen Beach and Boulevard summer 2021 & 2015 - original canvas print

Scheveningen Strand / Boulevard zomer 2021,

Ink on canvas - 30 x 200 cm

€ 375

 

Scheveningen Strand / Boulevard zomer 2015,

Ink on canvas - 30 x 200 cm

€ 375

Here you have the latest painting of this subject which i have been tackling for years now. Believe me it is a struggle to get in all those details, on such a massive size canvas and especially that I make it on location! Thus the elements of the outdoors are either for me or against me. Usually I choose to be on location when they are working for me, (I have no choice really). I'm standing on a wide open space, a pier made of huge cement elements topped with a road wide enough, for emergency vehicles to travel on.   

I enjoyed every minute of the making of this painting. Meeting all kinds of friendly nice people, who made several enquiries as to the technique and equipment I use.  I was getting a lot of compliments, thus I knew then that I was on to something good.  For your viewing pleasure 3 close ups.

 

Zuiderstrand commision painting

 Study for Zuiderstrand commision painting

oil on canvas - 20 x 60 cm
painted on location - Tues 07 July 2020

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As this was the first time I make a painting of this view I decided a study would be a good idea. Thus a week before I made that larger painting below I made this smaller study to familiarise myself with this view. This helps me in making decisions about the final composition

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View of Kijkduin and Zandmotor commision.

oil on canvas - 50 x 150 cm
painted on location - Tuesday 21 July 2020

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Here is the final version of this commision scene. It is what the customer wanted, thick Dutch clouds sweeping across the sky, the dunes, a summery feeling. I had to wait for the right conditions, was lucky for me that this took place just a couple of days ago. Again here in this sceen I have omitted a very large new construction area, which is what the customer desired, and I must admit I would have left that elephant of a building which would have appeared just above the white roof of the 1st beach pavilion on the left side