Market square

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Beautiful painting, Sharon!

Posted by Cesare Romano on Mon 02 Jan 13:29:58

Lovely job. You have captured the feel.

Posted by Gudrun Ståhl Sharpley on Mon 02 Jan 14:15:03

This is a beautiful painting, Sharon. I could look at this for hours and hours. Such lovely, warm tones. Happy New Year to you!xx

Posted by Jennifer Alsop on Mon 02 Jan 15:51:09

This is a beauty Sharon, very well painted, lovely.

Posted by Margaret Beynon on Mon 02 Jan 16:24:23

The blue/red mix you are using for roof tops etc is so effective to describe old clay tiles and brick work. Beautiful work Sharon.

Posted by Fiona Phipps on Mon 02 Jan 16:29:06

Fabulous work Sharon :)

Posted by Louise Naimian on Mon 02 Jan 16:48:01

Love the roof tops- really good

Posted by David Douglas on Mon 02 Jan 20:12:53

Thanks all for taking the trouble to comment, with such encouraging remarks. Fiona, apart from the greens I only used three colours - ultramarine, alizarine and D.Smiths' quinacrodine burnt orange, which is a real favourite of mine.

Posted by Sharon Van Der Veen on Mon 02 Jan 23:28:17

This is lovely Sharon, especially the blend of colours. (DS quin. burnt orange is also one of my favourites!)

Posted by Jenny Harris on Tue 03 Jan 09:04:30

Fabulous painting Sharon with some beautiful variations in colour and tone ; I've been away for the last while without the temptations of the internet and now back to reality hope you have a happy , artistic and peaceful new year

Posted by Dermot Brennan on Wed 04 Jan 07:47:30

Cheers Jenny, nice to read your comment. Its a beautifully vibrant colour, isnt it, but because it can also be quite low key, very versatile.

Posted by Sharon Van Der Veen on Wed 04 Jan 10:18:54

Hi Dermot, hope you had a good break, did you get round to any painting ? Dont envy you trying to catch up on this site, the number of postings can grow at an alarming rate! Thanks for your generous comment hope to see more of your lovely work soon. All good wishes for the new year, and happy painting!

Posted by Sharon Van Der Veen on Wed 04 Jan 10:23:26

This is an expertly painted watercolour Sharon - love those wet washes

Posted by lynne whitfield on Wed 04 Jan 13:35:48

Hi Sharon , thank you very much I hope you're happy and well and look forward to seeing more of your lovely work this year ; I'm full of ideas and rearing to go again I've been very busy with galleries so had a little rest away from it all just to re -charge the batteries ...kindest regards ,Dermot

Posted by Dermot Brennan on Tue 10 Jan 08:29:21

Lovely, lovely work. I've been looking at you gallery, Sharon. Just great!

Posted by Lewis Cooper on Tue 19 Dec 14:44:06

Hang on Studio Wall

02/01/2017

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Fifth – and for the moment, probably last – interpretation of an old photograph from our local archive. The sepia photo, from 1866, shows the market square, the church of St. George, and a birdseye view of part of the old town ; it emphasizes the higgledy-piggledy, almost organic, growth of medieval towns, and reminded me of the beautiful work Egon Schiele did in Cesky Krumlov (http://www.4-construction.com/cz/clanek/mesto-cesky-krumlov-egon-schiele_5761/). I tried to get some of that same feeling here. Today, the church is no longer on the edge of town, but right in the centre, and all the green areas to the north have been built up, with a motorway right through the middle. Watercolour on Canson Moulin du Roy NOT 300 gsm, 30x40cm. Original photograph courtesy of Archief Eemland.

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