During our short vacation on our largest Wadden Island Texel, we drove to the Eierland lighthouse and made several pictures of the landscape of that area.
The lighthouse is the most important landmark of the island, situated at the most northern point of Texel. It is said that when you go straight north from that point you will have only sea until you reach the North Pole.
We wanted to see the dry sandbanks of the Wadden Sea (and we saw them) but we also saw a small dune lake and went out of the car to make some pictures.
Of course we were on Texel at the end of winter and the colours are a bit different then, but I decided to 'imagine' an early spring for my watercolour.
I chose to use a portrait format this time to give the Eierland Lighthouse some more attention.
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Taking a walk at the beach does not always mean you need sunprotection. This time the clouds were really impressing, so I did make some photos as a reference for a painting.
To make the scene a bit more 'special' I wanted to include the lighthouse of Ouddorp into my painting. It hides a bit behind the dunes though.
Maybe the sky was not really that dark but I remember a very very very dark set of clouds over land and almost disappearing over sea.
The beach was almost empty where we were and the vegetation of the dunes is not in its summer colours yet...
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