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Haagse Bos (The Hague Forest) 01 (2014)
I often walk through The Hague Forest (Haagse Bos) at The Hague, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands where I live near by. When the sun sets sometimes it sets the trees on fire so it seems. I like the appearance of the sun deforming treescapes and rendering leafs to yellow and orange hues because of the strong razor backlighting. Next to this I stronly thought of impressionists like Monet, telling there are lots of colours to be found in shadows.
Pastel drawing on Canson Mi-Teintes Touch paper (47 x 62 x 0.1 cm)
Artist: Corné Akkers
Thanks Norman. You lived in The Hague? Great. This very tree is situated at the edge of the forest, between Haagse Bos and Marlot. It’s a narrow intersection of meadows and trees before you hit Marlot’s quarter.
This is a place i used to know very well, although I admit that I would not instantly recognise it here 🙂 You found some wonderful colours there near the sun.