Showing posts with label paintings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label paintings. Show all posts

Saturday, 5 August 2017

Ardennes, this time some good photographs
























The last week I have been posting the paintings I have made during my week of vacation in the Ardennes. The photographs were not as good as usual and for a reason. I did not have the opportunity to give the published pictures my usual watermark which is meant to prevent abuse of my artwork.
Today I have made some good photographs at home and I have given them the watermark.
So they are ready for proper publication now.

For the story of each of my paintings I refer to the blog posts I have written last week.

Some additional information may be necessary.
These painting vacation are group activities with two teachers, both ladies are qualified. Each teacher accompanies half of the students each day and they change groups every other day. Unfortunately they have decided to stop giving these classes and focus on one-day-workshops instead.
The paintings I have made this week are very much my own idea, I have had some guidance, but not much. With one exception, the bottle in expressionistic style could not have been completed as it is without help from my teacher. I am not ashamed to say so, expressionism is really not my style. The lamp was easy using the hints I needed to finish the bottle.

More information about these paintings (paper, paints, other materials used, size, etc) can be found at my website www.jannekesatelier.webs.com 

Sunday, 3 April 2016

My first Art Fair

Yesterday I participated in an Art Fair in Dordrecht, just across the river from the place I live. The announcement appeared in a local newspaper and I decided to give it a try.
This was a learning experience!
As the Art Fair was in a community center for elderly people, most people were only looking, not buying. The comments I got were nice though. People liked my art but could not afford the money to buy, or they paint themselves and do not need to buy art.
I made some contacts that may prove very valuable and the atmosphere was nice, so we had a nice, relaxed day.
Here is an impression: