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Painting with water colour is a party, it's a joy...
a great pleasure to get a hold of the things you do...
and get surprised by the things the water colour does.
That dialogue is the most challenging thing about water colour...
and the most enjoyable thing.
What I want is to capture the light.
I want to get pictures with lots of light and mood in it.
What I like most is watching things.
I love to see light and shadow and what it does with colours.
For me, water colour is a medium to keep it.
To save it, so I can always enjoy the moment that touches me.
I teach art classes. I teach at a high school.
But when we paint outside, I notice that people are far more loose...
far more spontaneous.
So, I would say: Go outside and try to paint outside.
Amaze yourself.
Water colour is a lovely medium for its transparency...
but also for its colours, for its depth.
I'm very inspired by the work of Alvaro Castagnet, Joseph Zbukvic.
And when I saw how they work with water colours...
I said to myself: I want it that way and spontaneously...
and with darks and lights and the mood.
Hannie Rieuwerts Bodegraven - The Netherlands - 1959
Hannie's aquarelles are different to what you might expect.
Colourful, strong and striking. You feel the passion of the tango in her painting.
Her greatest inspiration comes from Alvaro Castagnet and Joseph Zbukvic.
'The aquarelle improves as technique and spontaneity increase.'
Hannie lives and works in Vleuten, near Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Her palette is mainly created...
by using Van Gogh's liquid masking film and Aquarelle Tubes.
Van Gogh. That's me.