In 2019 I made my first oil paintings.This one is called ‘Dead Robin‘. It is 40 cm high, 30 wide; Oil on wood (MDF). This blog post is one of a series about work I have not previously shown here on the OldDutchPainter. I made it impulsively: when I started painting it I didn’t know… Continue reading For sale: Dead Robin
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Paintings for sale
Thanks to rather ‘special’ actions by Google and Chrome(books), I lost many files. Images, especially. Paintings by my own hand more especially. Because the vast majority of those are still in my possession and at my home, I can take photos of them again. There are also advantages to this. I am now taking a… Continue reading Paintings for sale
Kaïn and Abel, the Hebrews and the demigods
The letter to the Hebrews This so called ‘Bible-reading’ is a little bit different from the first two. Those were aboout the very first book -Genesis- too, but in the letter to the Hebrews that can be found in the New Testament there is a very interesting ‘explanation’ of that tiny passage in the Old… Continue reading Kaïn and Abel, the Hebrews and the demigods
Water, Gender and so on, the Sequel
About the amazing and very different ways the Dutch opposition leader Thierry Baudet was recently attacked by a Ukrainian terrorist and the Dutch media. How he survived both attacks might possibly turn against long term pm Mark Rutte. General elections are November 22, 2023. Link to one and a half minute video with Klaus Schwab… Continue reading Water, Gender and so on, the Sequel
Sharing their god or their hatred?
The first video here that also serves as a basis for a podcast: a podcast in Dutch from an English subtitled video. It deals with the similarities, the relationships and the differences among those Abrahamic Religions. The reason to make this video and podcast NOW is of course October 7, 2023: the terrorist attack on… Continue reading Sharing their god or their hatred?
The difference between Beheading & Decapitation and between Wrong & Evil
Babies. In incubators. The stories about Jewish babies beheaded or not by Hamas reminded me of very different events happening 23 years apart. The first being the murder of Lee Rigby in London (2013): hence the photo above. The second was the occupation of Kuwait by the Iraqi army in 1990. I write about the… Continue reading The difference between Beheading & Decapitation and between Wrong & Evil