A few notes about September

Sketching in Oranjezon, a protected nature area in Vrouwenpolder.

 In Oranjezon many animals lives free, as these ponies.

The dunes of Oranjezon were formed between 1200 and 1700.

 Gulls on the beach of Oost-Kapelle

Sketches and glasses for a lamp in my atelier/livingroom.

 The lamp is ready...

Rotterdam Zoo (Diergaarde Blijdorp) celebrates birthay these month: 155 years!

Cycling in Vlissingen...

... and along Channel of Walcheren to Middelburg.

An extra table to work in my atelier. 

 The topic for the next art route in Middelburg, 7 October: pumpkins. See also my blog about pumpkins. Once when I came home from work,  I found these pumpkins on my garden table. It was a present from Anna.

 So I immediately started to working.

And two weeks later I found this beautiful specimen back on my garden table, also from Anna. 

Pumpkins as models

Pumpkins are one of my favorite subjects for my work. I love pumpinks! Their variety in colors, textures and shapes are really beautiful. Hier are some dry pumpkins that were models for my paintings, drawings and linocuts. Sometimes it happens that some pumpinks dry in place from rot and so they remained intact but their colors changed.

Studies of pumpkins, acrylic on cardboard,2003

Some mini sketches (2004-2008) that I made for the composition of paintings. Some of these paintings are at Flickr as Meeting I, Meeting II, Night Visit, Playing Hide I. Other paintings are at Flickr are Playing Hide III and View I.

Sketchbook with sketch of Night Visitor 

Sketchbook with pumpinks that I use for some drawings in 2009. In Flickr are two of these drawings of 2010 : Birds and Pumpkins I and Birds and Pumpinks VII.

I also made a little leporello book with a story about a dreamy pumpkin (see hier below) and another book with a linocut On the windowsill watching the clouds.

The progress of life, 2005

Friendship, 2010

The visit, 2006

The View I, 2005

The View II, 2005

The View III, 2005

The View IV, 2006

See also my Flickr for more works with pumpkins.