Painting politician, political painter
The long road to civilization.
I produced this one in a couple of hours in the beginning of 2019.In the atelier of my first painting teacher I started to make the brown paint and to quickly create the face. When I came home I noticed that the face showed too much similarity with that of British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.… Continue reading Not Jeremy Corbyn
In april 2022 I visited a lovely city in the eastern part of Germany: Cottbus. To my surprise and somewhat to my delight, I discovered a synagogue near the hotel I was staying in. And to my astonishment, I saw these images on the side of the small, stark white building. It looks like two… Continue reading Coincidence does exist. Or not?
Colourizing old movies: I saw great examples of it before and today I discovered that a fellow Dutchman called Rick is doing a really great job in this field. Here an example of his work: The Attack on Pearl Harbour.This blogpost is about something completely different, yet in a way comparable. I chose this example-link… Continue reading Expressionism? I do want to cry out..
I used the (in)famous photo of Chamberlain as featured image. Somewhat amazingly I could find it at the BBC. (Link) This is a good source to start if you know little or nothing about why the name ‘Chamberlain’ to many is almost a synonym for ‘appeasement’.
Link to the specific source at The International Churchill Society. I say Centre instead of society. Their twitter-handle is @ChurchillCentre ..
Three years ago, before my first oilpainting, I made two or three gouaches. Only this one I completed. Just recently I read a little more about him. A really strange guy, indeed. In 1944 the Democrat establishment dumped him as VP from the ticket with Roosevelt and Truman became VP. Wallace in 1948 tried to… Continue reading The somewhat pathetic VP Wallace
