Sunflowers Umbria, Italy

Very amazing to sit in the morning heat in a field of sunflowers, somewhere in the beautiful mountains of Umbria. I got up at six and started out really early. Once it got so hot, that I could not sit any more I marked the spot to get back the next morning. I liked the picture and it has been used for many purposes such as this years Season's Greetings.

Trees in New Mexico

This was a new technique I learned from a dear painter friend. Working wet on wet and from a projected picture. Interesting to let everything flow and not get panicky when the water finds a new way. A good watecolour manages and finds the new possibilities growing from that.

Toscany, Italy

In the heat of an summer afternoon in Toscany I sat on the middle of the street to make this watercolour. It was painted in the shortest possible time as I could not stand it any longer. Maybe that was just right as I find often that giving myself less time often makes the painitng better.