Watercolour Portfolio: Watercolours from New Zealand

Watercolours from New Zealand

The watercolours below have all been made in New Zealand in 1986, the year I traveled through New Zealand as a backpacker coming from The Netherlands. In those days watercolour was my favorite medium. My favorite subjects: mountains and architecture.

The medium is rather compact (apart from the paper), quick, easy to travel with. All the equipment needed fits in a day pack. The works here vary in size from postcard size to A3.

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Introduction:

wa·ter·col·our n

A painting created with pigments mixed with water rather than oil

I learned how to use watercolours while studying architecture. For the first 9 classes I struggled intensely with the medium, but week 10 brought success. From hat moment forward it became my favorite medium which I mainly practiced while traveling. I used to created visual diaries of my travels, with and without text. I must have started painting with watercolours in the late '70s and continued till the early 90' when I became dissatisfied with the medium and the way I was 'capturing' what I saw. Later I switched to soft pastel. I never 'pushed' the medium, I merely used it for illustration. Although some works are clever I do not regard them as works of art as there is a sense of concept missing. What does unify all my works is that they are made on location and places where I felt the urge to linger, absorb it's essence and somehow capture that. I can't wait to do that again, but different of course, painting what I feel rather than what I see.

Watercolours from New Zealand

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