Painting Light and Colour

‘Windmill on the Amstel Canal’

Oil on canvas board, 24 x 18 cm

Status: €120

This is another one of the small panels executed outdoors in the cold Amsterdam snow. The Amstel canal winds its way down into Amsterdam, and I ride my bicycle past this windmill on my way into my studio. There is also a famous statue of Rembrandt sketching on this spot, directly behind this scene. It was bitterly cold, but fortunately, I was able to find a sheltered spot out of the wind while I painted away for an hour or so.

As you can se, it was a few days before the big snows that fell over Christmas, but I was still very glad to get out of the cold. It only needed a few remaining brush strokes in the studio to finish it.

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