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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" media="screen" href="/~d/styles/atom10full.xsl"?><?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" media="screen" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~d/styles/itemcontent.css"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:feedburner="http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0" gd:etag="W/&quot;DU4FSHg6fyp7ImA9WhVREEQ.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-679508218348956723</id><updated>2012-03-18T20:11:59.617+01:00</updated><category term="portraits" /><category term="animals" /><category term="Alchemy" /><category term="concept art" /><category term="Oils" /><category term="drawing" /><category term="tutorials" /><category term="Website" /><category term="Still Life" /><category term="scifi" /><category term="Tools" /><category term="Hardware" /><category term="markers" /><category term="Sequentina" /><category term="Plein Air" /><category term="Miscellaneous" /><category term="character" /><category term="Events" /><category term="Painter" /><category term="Cityscape" /><category term="Oil Painting Class" /><category term="vehicles" /><category term="Acrylics" /><category term="Windows 7" /><title>Johan Derycke</title><subtitle type="html">Fine Art, or Enjoying the Beauty of Light</subtitle><link rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://johanderycke.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://johanderycke.blogspot.com/" /><link rel="next" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/679508218348956723/posts/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25&amp;redirect=false&amp;v=2" /><author><name>Johan Derycke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><generator version="7.00" uri="http://www.blogger.com">Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>61</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/BQekh" /><feedburner:info uri="blogspot/bqekh" /><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/" /><feedburner:emailServiceId>blogspot/BQekh</feedburner:emailServiceId><feedburner:feedburnerHostname>http://feedburner.google.com</feedburner:feedburnerHostname><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DkcHQXs9eSp7ImA9WhVSE0w.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-679508218348956723.post-5495320318239960060</id><published>2012-03-09T15:39:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-03-09T18:27:10.561+01:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-03-09T18:27:10.561+01:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Plein Air" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Oils" /><title>Winter is ending</title><content type="html">&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;ENG - &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;Had the day off today, so I went outside this afternoon to paint. I was facing a strong chilly wind but I had to paint this scene after noticing it this morning when going to the grocery store.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;NL -&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt; Had vandaag een dagje vrijaf dus ben buiten gaan 
schilderen. Er was een sterke, frisse wind, maar ik kon het niet laten 
die boom te schilderen toen ik hem vanmorgen zag op de weg naar huis van
 de winkel.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-D1X8N9trtgs/T1o9UOoI8II/AAAAAAAAAU0/ffIs8t6k5cQ/s1600/pleinair_090312_resize.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="297" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-D1X8N9trtgs/T1o9UOoI8II/AAAAAAAAAU0/ffIs8t6k5cQ/s400/pleinair_090312_resize.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Winter is ending - 30cm x 40cm - Oil on panel&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/679508218348956723-5495320318239960060?l=johanderycke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/BQekh/~4/Lo0Nc_C6mUE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://johanderycke.blogspot.com/feeds/5495320318239960060/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://johanderycke.blogspot.com/2012/03/eng-had-day-off-today-so-i-went-outside.html#comment-form" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/679508218348956723/posts/default/5495320318239960060?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/679508218348956723/posts/default/5495320318239960060?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/BQekh/~3/Lo0Nc_C6mUE/eng-had-day-off-today-so-i-went-outside.html" title="Winter is ending" /><author><name>Johan Derycke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-D1X8N9trtgs/T1o9UOoI8II/AAAAAAAAAU0/ffIs8t6k5cQ/s72-c/pleinair_090312_resize.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://johanderycke.blogspot.com/2012/03/eng-had-day-off-today-so-i-went-outside.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;C0UGQHk5cSp7ImA9WhVTGEQ.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-679508218348956723.post-5645873927377010463</id><published>2012-03-04T20:25:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-03-04T21:00:21.729+01:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-03-04T21:00:21.729+01:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Cityscape" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Oils" /><title>SIMPLIFY!</title><content type="html">US based painter &lt;a href="http://www.terrymiura.com/Terry_Miura_Studio/Urban_Aria.html" target="_blank"&gt;Terry Miura &lt;/a&gt;had a nice idea... he published a picture of a cityscape on his blog and everyone was asked to have a go at painting it. The picture was very busy and had lots of cluttered elements.&lt;br /&gt;
Our task was to simplify in order to improve the overall composition and readability of the scene.&lt;br /&gt;
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Here's the reference:&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RONYmSLzaH0/T1O-osAd86I/AAAAAAAAAT8/svhZWXdI_Ns/s1600/IMG_0940_resize.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RONYmSLzaH0/T1O-osAd86I/AAAAAAAAAT8/svhZWXdI_Ns/s320/IMG_0940_resize.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;image curtesy Terry Miura&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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First task was to decide on the composition. I cropped the image as follows:&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-21d1FBaqIKA/T1O_GwmbanI/AAAAAAAAAUE/GbrLauMqh-Y/s1600/IMG_0940_crop1_resize.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-21d1FBaqIKA/T1O_GwmbanI/AAAAAAAAAUE/GbrLauMqh-Y/s320/IMG_0940_crop1_resize.jpg" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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and I got started&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Yq74lAYn-yI/T1O_XFIxuMI/AAAAAAAAAUM/00obiiSdWHw/s1600/cityscape_02_resize.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Yq74lAYn-yI/T1O_XFIxuMI/AAAAAAAAAUM/00obiiSdWHw/s320/cityscape_02_resize.jpg" width="239" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;After adding an imprematura with yellow ocre, I quickly added some general shapes, deviding the panel and starting to compose the image.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Z1EBt9AZxts/T1O_XskS1OI/AAAAAAAAAUQ/SfnNaLuO8lE/s1600/cityscape_03_resize.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Z1EBt9AZxts/T1O_XskS1OI/AAAAAAAAAUQ/SfnNaLuO8lE/s320/cityscape_03_resize.jpg" width="239" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;The centre part of the reference image had a lot of cluttered vehicles, which were making things hard to read. I had to simplify so I left out some cars and shifted others to a different location.&lt;/div&gt;
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At this stage I also started to think about the feel and mood this painting should express. &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2VYCyl_a_RA/T1O_ZXzmkHI/AAAAAAAAAUc/JF3lCt17CFU/s1600/cityscape_04.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2VYCyl_a_RA/T1O_ZXzmkHI/AAAAAAAAAUc/JF3lCt17CFU/s320/cityscape_04.jpg" width="242" /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Being selective also means working on edges and determining the amount of detail required. The further one looks away from the main focal point, the less detail is added, to avoid distraction.&lt;/div&gt;
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All in all this was a lot harder than expected and this kind of exercise is really inviting me to do more similar paintings.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Straight Forward - 40cm x 30cm - Oil on panel&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-D476sa-MUNA/T1Ihg4DjCRI/AAAAAAAAAT0/HMf5LBmkSuM/s1600/another_innocent_victim_640.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-D476sa-MUNA/T1Ihg4DjCRI/AAAAAAAAAT0/HMf5LBmkSuM/s400/another_innocent_victim_640.jpg" width="297" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Another Innocent Victim - 40cm x 30cm - Oil on board&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;ENG &lt;/i&gt;-&lt;/b&gt; Looking at this feels awkward doesn't it? &lt;br /&gt;Imagine how a child must feel when being abused.&lt;br /&gt;Stop child abuse!&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;NL -&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt; Dit werk straalt iets afschuwelijk uit, nietwaar?&lt;br /&gt;Stel je eens voor hoe een kind zich moet voelen wanneer het mishandeld wordt.&lt;br /&gt;Stop kindermishandeling!&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-of10qPZ89ms/TyUPKhTtEKI/AAAAAAAAATs/CriOIlGJNJw/s1600/pineapple_raw_640.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-of10qPZ89ms/TyUPKhTtEKI/AAAAAAAAATs/CriOIlGJNJw/s400/pineapple_raw_640.jpg" width="318" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Canned or fresh? - Oil on panel - 25cm x 20cm&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;ENG -&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt; January is already coming to it's end, and only now am I uploading my first of the year.&lt;br /&gt;
I kinda rediscovered pineapples lately, they are so yummie! A colleague at work told me you can tell if they are good to eat when you can pluck the leaves from the top centre.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;NL -&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt; Januari is al bijna ten einde en nu pas kan ik mijn eerste werkje voor 2012 uploaden.&lt;br /&gt;
Ik heb onlangs de ananas herontdekt... was helemaal vergeten hoe lekker verse ananas is. Een collega op het werk vertelde mij dat de vrucht rijp is wanneer je de blaadjes in het midden bovenaan kunt uittrekken zonder moeite.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/679508218348956723-5868998527061494600?l=johanderycke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/BQekh/~4/P1Xi8ZdzEto" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://johanderycke.blogspot.com/feeds/5868998527061494600/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://johanderycke.blogspot.com/2012/01/canned-or-fresh.html#comment-form" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/679508218348956723/posts/default/5868998527061494600?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/679508218348956723/posts/default/5868998527061494600?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/BQekh/~3/P1Xi8ZdzEto/canned-or-fresh.html" title="Canned or fresh?" /><author><name>Johan Derycke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-of10qPZ89ms/TyUPKhTtEKI/AAAAAAAAATs/CriOIlGJNJw/s72-c/pineapple_raw_640.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://johanderycke.blogspot.com/2012/01/canned-or-fresh.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;AkAFSH48cSp7ImA9WhRWE0g.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-679508218348956723.post-8649897288121665882</id><published>2011-12-31T20:11:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2011-12-31T20:11:59.079+01:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-12-31T20:11:59.079+01:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Still Life" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Oils" /><title>Sweet Flower</title><content type="html">&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;ENG -&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt; Here's a flower to cheer up the lonely ones.&lt;br /&gt;Happy New Year to all!&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;NL -&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt; Voila! Een bloemetje om de eenzamen onder ons op te fleuren.&lt;br /&gt;
Gelukkig Nieuwjaar aan iedereen!&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;ENG -&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt; Things aren't always what they seem. This egg for example - or what's left of it - wasn't boiled and eaten out of this nice egg-cup. It was used to make pancakes for our kids last night :)&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;NL -&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; Soms zijn de dingen niet wat ze lijken. Dit ei bijvoorbeeld - of wat er van overblijft - werd niet eerst gekookt en dan uit dit leuke eierdopje opgelepeld. Het werd gebruikt om pannekoeken voor de kids te bakken gisterenavond :)&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;NL -&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt; De laatste tijd zit ik nogal met stapels in mijn hoofd... stapels bladeren, chocolade, geluk, verdriet, frustratie, motivatie, ervaring, wijsheden... In feite kan het leven gereduceerd worden tot een reeks van stapels. Stapels die groeien mettertijd. Hier is een eerste stapel die ik bijdehand had... Er is zo veel te leren van de Oude Meesters. Da Vinci's notities liggen onderaan, maar niet omdat hij mijn minst favoriete ervaringsdeskundige is. Zijn notities zijn in mijn ogen een boodschap... dat ik moet leren door te observeren, maar vooral door ondervinding... Stapels, er zijn er nog meer te schilderen!&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Piles of Wisdom - 30cm x 60cm - Oil on Board&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EDitz7fNi0o/Tu4_jgWCSiI/AAAAAAAAAS4/_ePyxC-7qNY/s1600/tangerine_and_cup_640.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="298" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EDitz7fNi0o/Tu4_jgWCSiI/AAAAAAAAAS4/_ePyxC-7qNY/s400/tangerine_and_cup_640.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;ENG -&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt; Yesterday's painting has a lot of issues. Namely drawing, composition and most importantly the poor lighting setup. Today, I tried painting a tangerine once more, but this time in a completely different setup. I took my time composing this one but I think it paid off. The effect of translucency is now very present, don't you agree?&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;NL -&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt; Het werkje van gisteren heeft nogal wat problemen. Voornamelijk de tekening en compositie konden beter, maar vooral de slechte belichting stoorde me. Vandaag heb ik nogmaals geprobeerd om een mandarijntje te schilderen, maar ditmaal in een totaal andere opstelling. Ik heb mijn tijd genomen om de compositie te vinden, maar het was de moeite waard. Door de donkere achtergrond, is het effect van de doorschijnbaarheid van het mandarijntje nu wel heel erg aanwezig.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;NL -&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt; Eindelijk nog eens een post! Het is al een hele poos geleden en dit omdat ik het nogal druk had met vanalles dat niets met schilderen te maken had (jammer genoeg). Ik heb ook mijn tijd genomen om te wennen aan mijn nieuw leven sinds mijn nieuwe job. Ben wel nog aan het schilderen geweest op de academie, maar die werken heb ik nog niet kunnen fotograferen. &lt;br /&gt;Enfin, hier is een studie van een mandarijntje op klein formaat. Het effect van het licht dat door het vruchtvlees van het mandarijntje schijnt is niet zo sterk als ik had gehoopt, maar dat heb je met zo'n lichte achtergrond. Morgen probeer ik er eentje op een donkere achtergrond.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Tangerine - 20cm x 20cm - Oil on board&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/679508218348956723-7182151779521896230?l=johanderycke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/BQekh/~4/MWNfMQI6-9g" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://johanderycke.blogspot.com/feeds/7182151779521896230/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://johanderycke.blogspot.com/2011/12/tangerine.html#comment-form" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/679508218348956723/posts/default/7182151779521896230?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/679508218348956723/posts/default/7182151779521896230?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/BQekh/~3/MWNfMQI6-9g/tangerine.html" title="Tangerine" /><author><name>Johan Derycke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-g9dDUp7GHQk/TuzqjQFygoI/AAAAAAAAASw/M5OFLm6ey9M/s72-c/Tangerine_640.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://johanderycke.blogspot.com/2011/12/tangerine.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DU8FRX47fyp7ImA9WhdQE0Q.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-679508218348956723.post-8563449569233370002</id><published>2011-08-15T10:43:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-08-15T10:43:34.007+02:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-08-15T10:43:34.007+02:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Still Life" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Oils" /><title>Pear</title><content type="html">&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;ENG &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;- I wanted to depict the tension between the basic form of the little cup and the complex forms of the pear with leafs. The fact that the mini-cup has an intense color creates another interesting contrast with the pear's colors. It was challenging though, because the orange of the cup was so intense I had trouble to keep the focus on the pear.&lt;br /&gt;
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Tomorrow is my first day at my new job... so excited!&lt;br /&gt;
Wish me luck!&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Pear - 20cm x 25cm - Oil on Panel&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;NL&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt; - Het doel was hier de spanning die de simpele vorm van het kleine kopje en de meer complexe vorm van de peer met zijn bladeren creëren, weer te geven. Het feit dat het kopje een zeer intense kleur heeft zorgt voor een interessant contrast met de meer gedempte kleuren van de peer. Het was vrij uitdagend om te vermijden dat de focus teveel naar het intense oranje kopje ging.&lt;br /&gt;
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Morgen is mijn eerste werkdag bij mijn nieuwe werkgever... spannend!&lt;br /&gt;
Wish me luck!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/679508218348956723-8563449569233370002?l=johanderycke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/BQekh/~4/SvvwCwubzoQ" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://johanderycke.blogspot.com/feeds/8563449569233370002/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://johanderycke.blogspot.com/2011/08/pear.html#comment-form" title="1 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/679508218348956723/posts/default/8563449569233370002?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/679508218348956723/posts/default/8563449569233370002?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/BQekh/~3/SvvwCwubzoQ/pear.html" title="Pear" /><author><name>Johan Derycke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qgBNypFjeUo/Tkjb8K0T8WI/AAAAAAAAASs/o1mejYfVaqg/s72-c/pear_640wide.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://johanderycke.blogspot.com/2011/08/pear.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;AkADQHg5cCp7ImA9WhdQE0g.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-679508218348956723.post-8088557094038721966</id><published>2011-08-13T17:54:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2011-08-14T23:52:51.628+02:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-08-14T23:52:51.628+02:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Still Life" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Oils" /><title>Shiny Subject</title><content type="html">&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-E5dfWAelsQE/TkVErdzPxuI/AAAAAAAAASo/Y4a_z_XWLaQ/s1600/shiny_subject_640wide.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="256" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-E5dfWAelsQE/TkVErdzPxuI/AAAAAAAAASo/Y4a_z_XWLaQ/s320/shiny_subject_640wide.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Shiny Subject - 24cm x 30cm - Oil on Board&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;ENG &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;- I found this small copper little pan and although I have absolutely no idea what it would be used for (if you do know, please enlighten me?), I wanted to paint it when I saw it. The leafs are from one of the 2 apple trees in our garden.&lt;br /&gt;
I struggled with this one, in fact, I nearly gave up on it last night. &lt;br /&gt;
It seemed I had forgotten everything I learned so far, but I realized that the best thing to do was not to give up but to try again until I found a solution. And I did.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;NL &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;- Ik vond dit kleine koperen pannetje en hoewel ik absoluut geen idee heb waarvoor het zou kunnen dienen (mocht je het weten, vertel je het mij dan?), wilde ik het meteen schilderen toen ik het zag. De blaadjes komen van één van de 2 appelbomen in onze tuin.&lt;br /&gt;
Het leek wel alsof ik alles vergeten was wat ik ondertussen over schilderen geleerd had toen ik dit werkje aan het maken was, maar net op tijd realiseerde ik me dat het beste wat ik kon doen, niet opgeven was, maar blijven proberen tot ik een oplossing vond. En dat is exact wat ik deed.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/679508218348956723-8088557094038721966?l=johanderycke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/BQekh/~4/An1W1PiUVwU" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://johanderycke.blogspot.com/feeds/8088557094038721966/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://johanderycke.blogspot.com/2011/08/shiny-subject.html#comment-form" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/679508218348956723/posts/default/8088557094038721966?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/679508218348956723/posts/default/8088557094038721966?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/BQekh/~3/An1W1PiUVwU/shiny-subject.html" title="Shiny Subject" /><author><name>Johan Derycke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-E5dfWAelsQE/TkVErdzPxuI/AAAAAAAAASo/Y4a_z_XWLaQ/s72-c/shiny_subject_640wide.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://johanderycke.blogspot.com/2011/08/shiny-subject.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CkMEQ3o7eSp7ImA9WhdQEUs.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-679508218348956723.post-5922790521735337666</id><published>2011-08-12T16:46:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-08-12T16:46:42.401+02:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-08-12T16:46:42.401+02:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Still Life" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Oils" /><title>Lijsterbessen</title><content type="html">&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CHrkK4KJLOs/TkU8nW3Kn3I/AAAAAAAAASk/41gbuCynIdQ/s1600/lijsterbessen_640wide.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CHrkK4KJLOs/TkU8nW3Kn3I/AAAAAAAAASk/41gbuCynIdQ/s320/lijsterbessen_640wide.jpg" width="239" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Lijsterbessen - 40cm x 30cm - Oil on Canvas&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;ENG &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;- If I'm correct, these little berries are called Rowan. We have a nice tree like this in our garden, and I wanted to practice&amp;nbsp; on how to handle a group of small objects, without having to paint every individual part. It was quite challenging and it took me a couple of attempts to get a result that wasn't all too bad.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;NL &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;- We hebben een lijsterbessenboom in onze tuin staan. Ik wilde eens proberen een groot aantal kleine objecten te schilderen, zonder elk deeltje ervan te moeten schilderen. Het heeft me verschillende pogingen gekost om tot een resultaat te komen waar ik mee kan leven.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/679508218348956723-5922790521735337666?l=johanderycke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/BQekh/~4/FKETX9E8xQU" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://johanderycke.blogspot.com/feeds/5922790521735337666/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://johanderycke.blogspot.com/2011/08/lijsterbessen.html#comment-form" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/679508218348956723/posts/default/5922790521735337666?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/679508218348956723/posts/default/5922790521735337666?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/BQekh/~3/FKETX9E8xQU/lijsterbessen.html" title="Lijsterbessen" /><author><name>Johan Derycke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CHrkK4KJLOs/TkU8nW3Kn3I/AAAAAAAAASk/41gbuCynIdQ/s72-c/lijsterbessen_640wide.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://johanderycke.blogspot.com/2011/08/lijsterbessen.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;A0UMSXs5cSp7ImA9WhdRGUg.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-679508218348956723.post-4020644379933758759</id><published>2011-08-10T08:54:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-08-10T08:54:48.529+02:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-08-10T08:54:48.529+02:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Still Life" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Oils" /><title>Re-leafed</title><content type="html">&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;ENG &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;- I'm so relieved! I was unemployed since the beginning of july due to the fact that our whole department at my previous employer was transferred to Panama. Having 4 kids, this was a major bummer for us as I am normally the main source of income. However, I found a new job at what seems to be a very nice company, with very nice people. It looks like I will still have time left to paint too... so happy now!&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;NL &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;- Ik ben zo opgelucht! Sinds 1 july was ik werkloos geworden doordat ons gehele departement bij mijn vorige werkgever naar Panama werd getransfereerd. Als papa van 4 kinderen was dit wel een groot probleem, vooral omdat ik enige kostwinner ben. Ik heb echter reeds een nieuwe job gevonden bij wat me een zeer interessant bedrijf lijkt, met leuke mensen. Het ziet er naar uit dat ik zelfs nog genoeg vrije tijd zal hebben om te schilderen na het werk... zo gelukkig nu!&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MJxpRiuJ8vI/TkIqoF30EAI/AAAAAAAAASg/UaEBKm58cMY/s1600/re-leafed_640wide.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="249" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MJxpRiuJ8vI/TkIqoF30EAI/AAAAAAAAASg/UaEBKm58cMY/s320/re-leafed_640wide.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Re-leafed - 20cm x 25cm - Oil on Panel&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/679508218348956723-4020644379933758759?l=johanderycke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/BQekh/~4/Ao__MNodekM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://johanderycke.blogspot.com/feeds/4020644379933758759/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://johanderycke.blogspot.com/2011/08/re-leafed.html#comment-form" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/679508218348956723/posts/default/4020644379933758759?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/679508218348956723/posts/default/4020644379933758759?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/BQekh/~3/Ao__MNodekM/re-leafed.html" title="Re-leafed" /><author><name>Johan Derycke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MJxpRiuJ8vI/TkIqoF30EAI/AAAAAAAAASg/UaEBKm58cMY/s72-c/re-leafed_640wide.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://johanderycke.blogspot.com/2011/08/re-leafed.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;A08HQnozfip7ImA9WhRXEUk.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-679508218348956723.post-2716013361217717193</id><published>2011-08-09T12:47:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2011-12-17T20:23:53.486+01:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-12-17T20:23:53.486+01:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Still Life" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Oils" /><title>Pens and Pencil</title><content type="html">&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-86hbSpypdl0/TkENlWk9kHI/AAAAAAAAASc/oJzeD7wBasU/s1600/Pens_and_Pencil_640wide.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="319" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-86hbSpypdl0/TkENlWk9kHI/AAAAAAAAASc/oJzeD7wBasU/s320/Pens_and_Pencil_640wide.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Pens and Pencil - 20cm x 20cm - Oil on Canvas&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;ENG&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; - Wow! I thought this one would be easy and could be done in 2hrs or so... NOT! Had a really hard time with the colors and it took me more than 6 hours (with a break of an hour in between). Working small does not necessarily mean you can work faster, on the contrary. It usually takes longer because the margin for errors in brushwork is a lot smaller. I guess I just need more practice.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;NL &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;- Wow! Ik dacht dit klusje eens effe rap te klaren op een uurtje of 2. Niets was minder waar! Ik had het vrij moeilijk met de kleuren en het heeft me meer dan 6 uren werk gekost (met een pauze van een uur tussenin). Werken op kleiner formaat betekent niet noodzakelijk dat je sneller kan werken -wel integendeel. Gewoonlijk duurt dit langer omdat er minder ruimte is voor fouten in de penseelvoering. Misschien moet ik nog maar wat oefenen.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/679508218348956723-2716013361217717193?l=johanderycke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/BQekh/~4/DnCCoLHkTwc" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://johanderycke.blogspot.com/feeds/2716013361217717193/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://johanderycke.blogspot.com/2011/08/pens-and-pencil.html#comment-form" title="2 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/679508218348956723/posts/default/2716013361217717193?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/679508218348956723/posts/default/2716013361217717193?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/BQekh/~3/DnCCoLHkTwc/pens-and-pencil.html" title="Pens and Pencil" /><author><name>Johan Derycke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-86hbSpypdl0/TkENlWk9kHI/AAAAAAAAASc/oJzeD7wBasU/s72-c/Pens_and_Pencil_640wide.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>2</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://johanderycke.blogspot.com/2011/08/pens-and-pencil.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DkACRHs7eyp7ImA9WhdRF0k.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-679508218348956723.post-8233481774019810357</id><published>2011-08-07T21:19:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-08-07T21:19:25.503+02:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-08-07T21:19:25.503+02:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Still Life" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Oils" /><title>An old friend and a new friend</title><content type="html">&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VszIqGJ8c1k/Tj7h3un3-lI/AAAAAAAAASY/cipbN_E4GwQ/s1600/oldfriend_newfriend_640wide.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VszIqGJ8c1k/Tj7h3un3-lI/AAAAAAAAASY/cipbN_E4GwQ/s320/oldfriend_newfriend_640wide.jpg" width="311" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;An Old Friend and a New Friend - 34cm x 34cm - Oil on Panel&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;ENG&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt; - As weird as it may be to some, I never ate an aubergine (eggplant) before in my life.I don't know why that is. I know my mum didn't cook any. Perhaps that is why I never felt the desire to eat it. However, I was at the grocery store last week and I saw these eggplant fruits so I thought I'd try one in a still life. After all, one learns a lot from trying new things. I'm glad I did, Eggplants have this deep rich reddish purple hue which I really like. When I was setting up my still life, I took out this square panel I had prepared and set it on my easel. My youngest daughter Inèz was in the studio and she said "Why don't you paint a diamond painting?"&lt;br /&gt;
So I did.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;NL&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt; - Hoe vreemd het ook mag klinken, tot vrij recent had ik nog nooit aubergine gegeten. Hoe dit juist komt weet ik niet, maar wat ik wel weet is dat mijn moeder ze nooit klaarmaakte. Misschien is het daarom dat ik nooit eerder de behoefte had om ze eens te proeven. Nu was ik vorige week in de winkel en ik zag er zo een heleboel liggen, dus heb ik er maar eentje meegenomen om te proberen in een stilleven. Je kan er maar iets van leren, denk ik dan. Ik ben blij dat ik het gedaan heb. Aubergines hebben een prachtige dieprood-achtig paarse kleur. &lt;br /&gt;
Toen ik het stilleven aan het opstellen was, en ik een vierkant paneel tevoorschijn haalde om te gebruiken, vroeg mijn jongste dochter Inèz me: "Waarom schilder je niet eens een ruit?"&lt;br /&gt;
Dat heb ik dan ook gedaan.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/679508218348956723-8233481774019810357?l=johanderycke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/BQekh/~4/V1tIRQfQet4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://johanderycke.blogspot.com/feeds/8233481774019810357/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://johanderycke.blogspot.com/2011/08/old-friend-and-new-friend.html#comment-form" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/679508218348956723/posts/default/8233481774019810357?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/679508218348956723/posts/default/8233481774019810357?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/BQekh/~3/V1tIRQfQet4/old-friend-and-new-friend.html" title="An old friend and a new friend" /><author><name>Johan Derycke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VszIqGJ8c1k/Tj7h3un3-lI/AAAAAAAAASY/cipbN_E4GwQ/s72-c/oldfriend_newfriend_640wide.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://johanderycke.blogspot.com/2011/08/old-friend-and-new-friend.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CkYMRXs8eCp7ImA9WhdXFUs.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-679508218348956723.post-1887260408381717943</id><published>2011-08-06T09:03:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2011-08-28T21:36:24.570+02:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-08-28T21:36:24.570+02:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Still Life" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Oils" /><title>Toy Train</title><content type="html">&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
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&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;ENG&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt; - Paint, brushes and other required materials cost money, so I've decided to sell my paintings. I've been wondering if my paintings will sell, and more specifically, at what price. I'm not much of a marketing expert, far from it actually, so I'll have to experiment a bit. I've put some paintings on Ebay for bidding, and others are available directly from the blog at a fixed price. To think that someone likes my work so much that he or she is willing to pay money for it... that would surely boost the confidence, and I'm sure it would show in my future. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;NL &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;- Verf, penselen en ander materiaal kosten centen, dus ik heb besloten om mijn schilderijen te verkopen. Ik vraag me af of mijn werk zou verkopen, en meerbepaald voor hoeveel. Ik ben geen marketing expert, dus ik zal wat moeten experimenteren. Enkele werken heb ik op Ebay geplaatst, andere zijn dan weer direct vanaf het blog beschikbaar aan een vaste prijs. Te denken dat iemand een werk van mij zodanig goed zou vinden, dat die persoon er geld voor zou willen betalen... dat zou echt mijn vertrouwen een boost geven, en ik ben ervan overtuigd dat dit extra vetrouwen zichtbaar zou zijn in mijn werk.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/679508218348956723-1887260408381717943?l=johanderycke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/BQekh/~4/YzbvwaA5s_0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://johanderycke.blogspot.com/feeds/1887260408381717943/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://johanderycke.blogspot.com/2011/08/toy-train.html#comment-form" title="2 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/679508218348956723/posts/default/1887260408381717943?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/679508218348956723/posts/default/1887260408381717943?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/BQekh/~3/YzbvwaA5s_0/toy-train.html" title="Toy Train" /><author><name>Johan Derycke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-grrvJ23eXJs/TjzjaJB39bI/AAAAAAAAASU/sGL14TGL0GE/s72-c/toytrain_640wide.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>2</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://johanderycke.blogspot.com/2011/08/toy-train.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CkcCSHcyeyp7ImA9WhRXEUg.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-679508218348956723.post-4861081906058465155</id><published>2011-08-05T12:23:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2011-12-17T20:27:49.993+01:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-12-17T20:27:49.993+01:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="portraits" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Oils" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="animals" /><title>His Majesty</title><content type="html">&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;ENG &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;- He is always there but mostly quiet. He's picky on his food. He can sit there on the lookout for hours and not move an inch, then suddenly jump and catch a mouse. He trusts his human friends and let's them feed him when he pleases. He complains when they've been away for too long, as if he's asking "Where have you been?" He's kind to children, but mean to cats and dogs. He's the gracefulness himself. He's His Majesty: Tigger, I&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;This painting is not for sale.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;His Majesty - Oil on Panel - 40cm x 31.7cm&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;NL &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;- Hij is er altijd maar valt meestal niet op. Hij is kieskeurig op zijn eten. Hij kan ergens urenlang op de uitkijk zitten zonder te bewegen, en dan opeens toeslaan, met een muis als trofee. Hij vertrouwt zijn mensenvrienden en laat zich door hen voeden als het hem uitkomt. Hij klaagt wanneer zij te lang weggeweest zijn, alsof hij hen vraagt "Waar zaten jullie al die tijd?" Hij is lief voor kinderen maar gemeen voor katten en honden. Hij is de gracieusheid zelve. hij is Zijne Majesteit Tijgertje de Eerste.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Dit werk is niet te koop.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/679508218348956723-4861081906058465155?l=johanderycke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/BQekh/~4/6Jx_GxRaEV4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://johanderycke.blogspot.com/feeds/4861081906058465155/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://johanderycke.blogspot.com/2011/08/his-majesty.html#comment-form" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/679508218348956723/posts/default/4861081906058465155?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/679508218348956723/posts/default/4861081906058465155?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/BQekh/~3/6Jx_GxRaEV4/his-majesty.html" title="His Majesty" /><author><name>Johan Derycke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Uo8d-kjiYMk/TjvECJinEqI/AAAAAAAAASQ/6YQ9D4jDn9A/s72-c/his_majesty_640wide.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://johanderycke.blogspot.com/2011/08/his-majesty.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CkcBQn45cCp7ImA9WhRXEUg.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-679508218348956723.post-4032118129440840886</id><published>2011-08-01T12:24:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2011-12-17T20:27:33.028+01:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-12-17T20:27:33.028+01:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Still Life" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Oils" /><title>Three Friends</title><content type="html">&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;ENG &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;- Every now and then, I go to a store called SPIT, which is a recycling store. People that have stuff they don't need just drop it off there at no charge, while others find things there which are really nice or interesting to them. I found the vase and the blue glass there recently so I thought I'd do a color study with them (orange and blue being complementary). I added the tomatoe to spice things up a bit: it's bright red colors are much warmer than the orange of the vase and the cool green and blue of the glass. Even though these objects look and feel totally different, they seem to fit well together. Maybe if it were people we were talking about, they'd be friends...&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;NL&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt; - Af en toe ga ik eens langs bij het SPIT, een kringloopcentrum. Wat voor de ene rommel blijkt, kan van nut zijn voor anderen, of misschien zelfs mooi. Ik vond deze vaas en dit glas onlangs in het SPIT en besloot er een kleurenstudie mee te doen (oranje en blauw zijn complementaire kleuren). De tomaat brengt wat meer leven in het geheel: het is organisch, de felle rode kleuren zijn veel warmer dan het gedempte oranje van de vaas en het groenblauwe glas. Nu, hoewel deze drie objecten totaal verschillend aanvoelen, lijken ze toch goed bij elkaar te passen. Mochten het mensen zijn, het konden vrienden zijn...&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Green Pyramid - Oil on Canvas - 18cm x 24cm&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;ENG&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt; - I wanted to experiment with a main subject that doesn't have very vibrant colors that is surrounded by less important objects that do have very vibrant hues. In real life, I'm not someone who aims to always be in the spotlight, yet, I am often surrounded by vibrant characters. What do you think? Have I managed to pull your eye to the teabag, regardless it's colorful surroundings?&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;NL&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt; - Met dit werkje wilde ik wat spelen met een onderwerp dat niet echt van die levendige kleuren heeft, terwijl het omringd is door objecten die wel fel gekleurd zijn. In het echte leven ben ik niet iemand die graag in de spotlight staat, en toch ben ik vaak omringd door zeer levendige karakters. Wat denk jij? Ben ik erin geslaagd om jou oog naar het theezakje te leiden, ondanks de felle kleuren er omheen?&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;ENG &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;- I have to admit that I am blown away by Qiang Huang's work. His clever color usage (often bright and saturated colors surrounded by subtil greys), his brushwork and his willingness to step out of his comfort zone (I even saw an abstract landscape on his &lt;a href="http://qiang-huang.blogspot.com/2008/11/ajijic-impression.html"&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt;) are extremely inspiring.&lt;br /&gt;
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I usually mix my greys with ultramarine and burnt sienna, but there are other methods, so I'm going to explore mixing different greys. Here I used Cerulean Blue with Burnt Sienna this time, resulting in greenish greys. I also focused on keeping the brushwork loose. The result is quite a fresh looking painting. What do you think?&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;NL &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;- Ik moet toegeven dat het werk van Qiang Huang een ongelooflijke indruk op mij maakt. Zijn knappe kleurgebruik (vaak felle, intense kleuren omringd door meer neutrale grijstinten), zijn penseelvoering en zijn bereidbaarheid om buiten zijn comfortzone te treden (op zijn &lt;a href="http://qiang-huang.blogspot.com/2008/11/ajijic-impression.html"&gt;blog &lt;/a&gt;vond ik zelfs een abstract landschap) zijn zeer inspirerend.&lt;br /&gt;
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Gewoonlijk meng ik mijn grijzen op basis van Ultramarine en Gebrande Sienna, maar er zijn andere manieren, dus ga ik het mengen van grijstinten op verschillende manieren eens wat nader bestuderen. Voor dit werk heb ik Cerulean Blauw met Gebrande Sienna gebruikt, wat resulteerde in groenachtige grijzen. Ik trachtte ook de penseelvoering zo los mogelijk te houden. Het resultaat is een fris ogend werkje, vind je niet?&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;ENG &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;- I wanted to try this after seeing a milk chocolate still life by Jacob Collins.&lt;br /&gt;
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I was struggling with the aluminium wrap. Not only was this very challenging in terms of tones, in it's current position, it is very dominant within the composition, so I chose not to work up the wrap too detailed. The light bouncing on the chocolate from the wrap was very interesting and appealing to me. I will for sure do more of these.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;NL&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/i&gt;- Voor dit werk ben ik geïnspireerd door Jacob Collins, die een ronduit prachtig melkchocolade stilleven schilderde. Je kan het op zijn website bekijken.&lt;br /&gt;
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Ik had heel wat problemen met de aluminiumfolie. Niet alleen was het op tonaal gebied zeer uitdagend (de tonen liggen verrassend anders dan men op het eerste gezicht zo denken), de folie neemt een vrij dominante positie en omvang aan binnen de compositie, waardoor de chocolade te weinig aandacht dreigde te krijgen. Daarom besloot ik de folie niet te gedetailleerd uit te werken. Het licht dat op de chocolade weerkaatst via de aluminiumfolie interesseert mij heel erg. Dit soort oefeningen zal ik er zeker nog maken.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;ENG &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;- Here's a still life I finished last night.&lt;br /&gt;
My dad painted this crazy man 40 years ago or so. I always admired the little portrait for it's humorous appearance. The painting, somehow, got lost but&amp;nbsp; he always kept the postcard so I decided to paint it too when he recently gave it to me. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;NL &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;- Een nieuw stilleven dat ik gisterenavond laat nog afgewerkt heb.&lt;br /&gt;
Een kleine 40-tal jaren geleden heeft mijn vader van deze gekke man een klein portretje geschilderd, dat ik altijd bewonderde omdat het zo grappig is. Op een of andere manier is dit schilderijtje verloren geraakt, maar het postkaartje had mijn vader blijkbaar nog. Toen hij het mij onlangs gaf, besloot ik om het ook te schilderen.&lt;br /&gt;
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The show is meant to attract new students and displays work of all students of all disciplines from the past schoolyear. Like every year, the year passed so fast I am surprized to notice it is time for a forced break of nearly three months again. I'm looking forward to continue my journey in september.&lt;br /&gt;
Here are some of the studies I painted in 2011&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I'll be at the Open Door on Sunday afternoon so...&lt;/div&gt;See you at SLAC this weekend!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/679508218348956723-5558863247248929893?l=johanderycke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/BQekh/~4/YGEAI-SFm4w" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://johanderycke.blogspot.com/feeds/5558863247248929893/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://johanderycke.blogspot.com/2011/06/school-work.html#comment-form" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/679508218348956723/posts/default/5558863247248929893?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/679508218348956723/posts/default/5558863247248929893?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/BQekh/~3/YGEAI-SFm4w/school-work.html" title="School Work" /><author><name>Johan Derycke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8oJlZ20zDUk/TgSiJ6PkjYI/AAAAAAAAARE/Ofb_T3IXacY/s72-c/0000_24062011_DSC_0427.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><georss:featurename>België</georss:featurename><georss:point>50.503887 4.4699359999999615</georss:point><georss:box>49.499821 2.5280329999999616 51.507953 6.411838999999961</georss:box><feedburner:origLink>http://johanderycke.blogspot.com/2011/06/school-work.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;Ck8HR3ozeCp7ImA9WhdSF0Q.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-679508218348956723.post-6003020208690413169</id><published>2011-05-08T11:30:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2011-07-27T20:20:36.480+02:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-07-27T20:20:36.480+02:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Still Life" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Oils" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Website" /><title>Back to the old blogspot address</title><content type="html">I've changed the blog's URL back to &lt;a href="http://www.johanderycke.blogspot.com/"&gt;http://www.johanderycke.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
I've done this with a particular reason in mind, namely me being primarly focussed on fine art since last year. The address www.johanderycke.com will be used to present my fine art paintings and drawings in the future. This blog will be part of it too, but it will no longer be the main page.&lt;br /&gt;
So anyone who is having problems seeing this blog, please change back the url to &lt;a href="http://www.johanderycke.blogspot.com/"&gt;http://www.johanderycke.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt; or copy paste the URL in your properties of your favourites.&lt;br /&gt;
Thanks and hope you're all well!&lt;br /&gt;
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Here's a quick study in oils done in direct sunlight.&lt;br /&gt;
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See the video at Sotheby's here: &lt;br /&gt;
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See more details of the painting, as well as it's history here:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?sale_number=L10033&amp;amp;live_lot_id=57"&gt;http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?sale_number=L10033&amp;amp;live_lot_id=57&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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And some interesting after-sale news can be found on "The History Blog":&lt;br /&gt;
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