Tag: #noordbrabant

Following the Footsteps of Vincent Van Gogh

Sketching where Vincent sketched.

Traveling the narrow streets of Noord Brabant, through the towns of St. Antonius, Oploo, Lierop and Nuenen, we can feel the brushstrokes of Vincent van Gogh’s paintbrush as he captures and transposes the images of the countryside onto his canvases.

Roads we have traveled.
In the van Gogh museum in Nuenen
Windmill in the tulip fields of Keukenhof

Tulepvelden, from the van Gogh museum in Amsterdam.
Waterwheel in Oploo
Waterwheel in the van Gogh museum in Nuenen

van Gogh’s The Reaper, in the van Gogh museum in Amsterdam.
A print of The Reaper, hanging on my living room wall.

Modern version of The Potato Eaters
The Potato Eaters from the van Gogh museum in Amsterdam

Tracing the steps of one of the great master, walking the same streets, the same roads, prehaps under some of the same trees felt so unreal, like anything and everything is possible.

It was an honor and a privilege.