Comments on: Witte Aalbessen (white berries)

By: Steve Durbin

Steve Durbin — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:04:58 +0000

Congratulations, Hanneke! Is there any place on the Internet where we can see some of your recent work?

By: hanneke oosterhout

hanneke oosterhout — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:56:33 +0000

hi Folks,
I sold six paintings at the show,(5 at the vernisage and one the third day )
thanks for commenting

By: June

June — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 01:53:05 +0000

Hi Hanneke,

Good to hear your voice again. Congrats on the painting and good luck with the show.

By: hanneke oosterhout

hanneke oosterhout — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:35:21 +0000

Hi Elizabeth,

This painting was sold a year ago. Bit of all these things was fixed before that.
I made another one this summer as a commission and people love it,

I am having a show this weekend.

Thanks for commenting.

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 06:18:54 +0000

I think the berries are a success, and the painting does look finished, although the composition is rather stark and severe. I think it’s charming and lively, and I like the colours offset against the dark charcoal of the background. It could have done with a few things on the ground around the bowl, perhaps. I think she’s aiming for a translucent glow coming from the berries, and has succeeded.

My problem is with the drawing of the bowl; fundamentally. It isn’t as curved as it should be – that is the perspective on the top round and the bottom round should be more oval. Both lines are too straight. The base of the bowl has squared off too much, and should also be more rounded. There is not enough “volume” to the bowl, and it does not look as if it is convincingly holding the berries.

Otherwise, it’s great – colours are lovely in the berries, and the details of the bowl are very good.

By: hanneke van oosterhout

hanneke van oosterhout — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 20:03:00 +0000

I painted the berries in oil paint in one session. The reason that I wanted to do it in one day is that I was afraid that the berries would be dried out the next day, which was not the case but they had gotten sort of milky so I could not see through them anymore and thus could not see the seeds anymore.

I don’t remember exactly how I painted the berries but I did it all in one day so I started with the seeds and painted the reflections over them while the paint was wet. In the underpainting the berries where not more than a little circle filled with some warm grayish yellowish color if I remember it well.

By: Karl Zipser

Karl Zipser — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 05:28:00 +0000

Hi Ossi,

The underpainting is a somewhat rough painting of the complete scene. Unfortunately there is no photo of it for this picture. Hanneke will answer your other questions.