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The Windmill

joha59 18 Mar 2025

Once I had to try this scene, not my first choice, but when I saw it was on black canvas and the beautiful colors in the sky I wanted to paint it today and kept the pt.green around the horizon. The sky and buildings were fun to do, most difficult were the 'feet' of the mill, on a smal canvas hard to keep them thin, on canvasboard of 30 x 24 cm.

Update 19 Mar: added a picture of my preparation for this scene, maybe helpful for all who struggle with the shapes of cabins like me; I (sometimes) draw them on paper, cut them out, lay it on the canvas when I have to paint them on the place where needed and scratch the outside and some inner important lines out with a palletknife before bringing on the basic layer. Remark: the circles are for the windmill.

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Comments

Pietro1963 Master of Monsters

great mood and colors J!cheers,P

Great windmill!

Love the colors!

Cool work , Jos πŸ‘πŸΌπŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡³πŸ‡±

Good job!

Great job Jos, love the colors you used bro✌️

Thank you all P, Bob, Stephanie, Dirk, Jon and bro Brian for your support!

Your buildings are terrific and great work on the windmill!

Thank you Kerri for your nice compliments!

Not only the farm but the trees in the back are really awesome too! Amazing as always Jos! The colors are super

Thank you very much Eduardo, also for attending the little details like the small trees in the distant.

NTZArt Formerly Ninoum

It came out beautiful Jos! 🀩 Love the pt green in the sky! I use those little tricks too at times! πŸ˜‰

Thank you Nancy!

This is wonderful, great idea for the cut outs to help

Thank you Tanisha, yeh, it helped me a lot!

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