Category: Holland drawings and paintings

  • Drawings and more from our boating adventures of 2020

    Set to the Oscar Navarro’s gorgeous Noe (Noah). Oscar is from Valencia. He was in the audience when I heard him for the first time.

  • Stare Miasto

    Stare Miasto, Warsaw. 11.5*16.5′, 30*42 cm acrylics on paper.

    An acrylic painting of a section of Warsaw, almost totally destroyed by the Nazis in the uprising of 1944 and beautifully rebuilt.  In the area I left blank, on the painting’s left side, actually sits the restored castle, a blank here to symbolize the Nazi destruction of it during the uprising of 1944.

  • Boat in Kalenburg

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    pen and in 32 x 41 cm/12.6 x 16.1″

    Kalenburg is a tiny village that is split by the canal. It is perhaps the most lovely navigable canal section in the country. Geithoorn is overall more charming but its canals are too small for boats in the size range of our 12 meter boat Viking. I write about it here https://garyjkirkpatrick.com/wandering-about-the-netherland-east-part-2/

  • Barge in Gorredijk

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    Barge in Gorredijk, pen and ink 32 cm x 41 cm, 12.6 x 16.1″

    Gorredijk is yet another lovely town in Friesland. A barge passes through the now closing foot bridge behind the boat.

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  • Windmill of Sloten

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    Windmill in Sloten, 32 cm x 41 cm, 12.6 x 16.1″

    Sloten is a small charming town in the Netherlands. The windmill is still in use for grinding flour.

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  • Hasselt Harbor, pen and ink

    Hasselt harbor
    Hasset Harbor, pen and ink, 32 x 41 cm/ 12.6 x 16.1″

    View from our boat as we enter the harbor of the small town of Hasselt, Nederlands

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  • Viking in Dokkum 2

     

    This is my second rendition of our boat in front of one of the two old windmills in the tiny town of Dokkum in Friesland, the northeast province of the Netherlands.

    Viking in Dokkum 2, water color, 8 x 8″, 20 cm x 20 cm on Arches paper

     

  • Stream in Giethoorn,pen and ink,

    Stream in Giethoorn, pen and ink, Company, 6″ x 8″ 15 x 21 Stream in Giethoorn, pen and ink, 

  • House in the garden at Giethoorn, pen and ink

    August 2019, from our recent visit to this Venice of the North

     

     

    House in the Garden at Giethoorn, pen and ink, Company, 6″ x 8″ 15 x 21 cm

  • Waterpoort, Sneek, Nederlands pen and ink drawing

     

     

    Sneek is a small city in Friesland, the northeast part of the Nederlands.  It has a gorgeous gate and other architectural gems.  It faces the canal.  We were moored just in front of it.

     

     

    Waterpoort, Sneek, Nederlands pen and ink, Company, 6″ x 8″ 15 x 21 cm