Japanese garden Pin

Hatch up Clingendael An impressionistic view on the Japanese Garden at estate 'Clingendael' at The Hague, Netherlands. Opened in spring and autumn only. Exemplary of my love for laying hatched strokes. I developed this technique after I visited the Musée d’Orsay at Paris, France where I saw the pastel drawings by Edgar Degas. Although he primarily hatched vertically, the principle merely stays the same. Divisionism Mine also was influenced by pointillism that brought forth divisionism. The latter is the theory on having colors blend into your eyes at a distance, rather than blending them out on canvas or paper. As a result reds and purples in this pastel blend in the green and yellow areas, whereas in the latter there are some red a...