VISIT TO NORDERNEY.

Recently I visited with my friend the island Norderney in the north of Germany.  An island which is quite loved by the inhabitans of Nordrheinwestfalen, a region near the dutch borderside. The connection with the train from the "Ruhrgebiet" is easy. You take the train in the direction to Emden and the train will stop at the ferryboat.  But we went by car....
  It had been a long time since I visited an island so I wanted to look around and take pictures with the idea of finding interesting topics to paint later at home. On the first day we went for a biketour around the island and stopped halfway where a big dune landscape starts. One can walk for 5 kilometers to the far right side of the island. We didn't went sofar.  I made a couple of pictures of the dunes and the coastline...   I like the emptyness of this space, the wide views and the reduced visual attractions of the whole setting...


So back home I started a serie of three paintings about the dunes. I used the aluminium plates for this.

The dunes are for itself interesting.

For the next painting, marram grass, I used a very limited pallet.

• Ultramarine Blue
• Cadmium red light
• Cadmium yellow light
• Titanium white
• Italian omber

 Ultramarine Blue, cad red light and cad yellow light are the primary colours.  And titanium white and italian omber to dempen the colours.    The idea for this pallet came from a painter on Youtube of whom I occasionally follow his steps. His channel is Draw Mix Pain. Working with a limited pallet is not new to me.  I do it often for a very practical reason. It asks extra labour to make my own colours. How to limit this labour is simple by using as little different colours as possible. With this kind of  limited pallet I can make almost any colour. The main colour in the painting is Ultramarine Blue. The sky, clouds, sand and marram grass are all variations on this blue.  Ultramarine Blue has its limits as you can see  in the image below.  The sky is complete different from the two above. Less sparkling...more subdued...