Peter van der Woude
Fine Art ~ Oil paintings and Portraits
"I admire artists who visualize what they are intending to do, before they take their palette and paint.
I can only think how I start. How it ultimately ends depends on influences I can not predict.
Every painting has its own inner metric and music, its own story. I have a strong preference to paint moods, in color, so that the viewer gets a feeling instead of a determination at what he sees..."
pending...
'untitled'
Latest update: (04/07/2025, pending)
On regular basis I publish UPDATES about what`s currently `going on, on my easel`.
For you to comprehend the steps a painting goes through, from start to finish. For me, to perform some indispensable `checks and balances` in case something should not be quite right... ;)
Like this oil painting over here:
'untitled'
Oil on canvas,
70 h x 60 b
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Start project: 25/05/2025
'Slava Ukraini!'
Latest update: (25/08/2025, pending)
On regular basis I publish UPDATES about what`s currently `going on, on my easel`.
For you to comprehend the steps a painting goes through, from start to finish. For me, to perform some indispensable `checks and balances` in case something should not be quite right... ;)
Like this oil painting over here:
'Slava Ukraini!'
Oil on canvas,
70 h x 60 b
(View `the making of` of this painting)
Start project: 07/07/2025
Recently finished projects...
'LACE'
30/05/2025, completed
Oil on canvas,
120 h x 40 b, 47.2" h x 15.7" w
Details
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Start project: 24/02/2025
'Atlas Örn'
22/01/2025, completed
N.t.k.
Oil on canvas,
70 h x 60 b, 27.5" h x 23.6" w
Details
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Start project: 05/06/2024
'And who, might you think, would YOU be, exactly?'
(28/10/2024, completed)
* sold *
Oil on canvas,
50 h x 40 b, 19.6" h x 15.7" w
Details
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Start project: 03/10/2024
'Portrait in Blue'
24/08/2024, completed
* sold *
Oil on canvas,
50 h x 40 b, 19.6" h x 15.7" w
Details
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Start project: 01/08/2024
'Lace'
14/08/2024, completed
Oil on wood panel,
1.60 m. h x 65 cm. b, 62.9" h x 25.5" w
Details
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Start project: 23/02/2022
'Stilleven met vaas'
08/02/2024, completed
Oil on canvas,
70 h x 60 b, 27.5" h x 23.6" w
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Start project: 25/11/2023
'Ok. So... you wanted to Mansplain something to me?'
13/12/2023, completed
* sold *
'Ok. So... you wanted to Mansplain something to me?'
Oil on canvas, 50 h x 40 b, 19.6" h x 15.7" w
Details
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Start project: 15/11/2023
'Portrait of a Woman'
29/09/2023, completed
'Portrait of a Woman'
Oil on canvas, 50 h x 40 b, 19.6" h x 15.7" w
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Start project: 13/03/2023
'Kateryna'
01/03/2023, completed
'Kateryna'
Oil on canvas, 70 h x 60 b, 27.5" h x 23.6" w
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Start project: 15/01/2023
'Rojine III' - زن، زندگی، آزادی (Woman, Life, Freedom!)
21/12/2022, completed
'Rujine III' - زن، زندگی، آزادی (Woman, Live, Freedom! (detail))
Oil on canvas, 100 h x 80 b, 23.6 h x 19.6" w
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Start project: 25/08/2022
'Waterdruppels' (Tears of the sun)
06/09/2022, completed
* sold *
'If you ultimately care to count the droplets...,
...you'll know how many days I spend on this...' ;)
Grisaille. Oil on canvas
70 h x 60 b, 27.5" h x 23.6" w
Details
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Start project: 07/03/2022
'Portret van Suzanne' (Klemann)
06/10/2022, completed
'Portret van Suzanne' (Klemann)
Oil on canvas, 60 h x 50 b, 23.6 h x 19.6" w
Details
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Start project: 01/02/2022
"Where is she now?"
04/08/2022, completed
An Ukrainian refugee girl, looking out of a bus window with her drawings on it, as civilians flee from Russian bombshelled Irpin, Ukraine.
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Українська дівчина-біженка, дивлячись у вікно автобуса зі своїми малюнками, коли мирні жителі евакуювалися з обстріляного Росією Ірпіня (Україна).
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Украинская беженка смотрит из окна автобуса со своими рисунками на эвакуацию мирных жителей из разбомбленного русскими Ирпеня (Украина).
thanks to: Vadim Ghirda
"Where is she now?"
Oil on wood panel, 63 h x 84 b, 24.8 h x 33" w (detail)
Details
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Start project: 01/06/2022
'Who's afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue'
28/01/2022, completed
'Who's afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue' (detail)
Oil on canvas, 40 h x 50 b, 15.7" h x 19.6" w
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Start project: 08/01/2022
'Moments'
03/01/2022, completed
'Moments'
Oil on canvas, 80 h x 60 b, 31.4" h x 23.6" w
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Start project: 26/08/2021
'Hope (is a thing with feathers...)'
15/08/2021, completed
'Hope' (is a thing with feathers...) - Emily Dickinson
Oil on canvas, 70 h x 60 b, 27.5" h x 23.6" w
€ 500,--, certificate incl.
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Start project: 19/07/2021
'The Secret Project - 'Yielding To Iceland'
Lucy Líf Marijnsdóttir
26/06/2021, completed
* sold *
'The Secret Project'
Oil on canvas, 70 h x 60 b, 27.5" h x 23.6" w
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Start project: 01/05/2021
'Eliane'
13/07/2021, completed
'Eliane'
Oil on canvas, 100 h x 70 b, 39.3" h x 27.5" w
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Start project: 26/03/2021
'CLAIRE'
25/03/2021, completed
'CLAIRE'
Oil on canvas, 70 h x 70 b, 27.5" h x 27.5" w
Details
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Start project: 05/02/2021
'CROSSING THE BAR'
31/01/2021: completed
'CROSSING THE BAR'
Oil on canvas, 80 h x 60 b, 31.4" h x 23.6" w
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Start project: 29/12/2020
'Miriyam'
'Miriyam'23/12/2020
Je présente, avant Noël: Miriyam.
Huile sur toile, 80h x 60w, 31,4" h x 23,6" w
Klaar. Doe d'r niks meer an.
Leek me wel gepast, op dit moment v.h. jaar...
Fijne kerst allemaal!
(23/12/2020, completed)
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'Miriyam'
Oil on canvas, 80 h x 60 b, 31.4" h x 23.6" w
'Rojine II'
'Rojine II'20/11/2020
'Rojine'
'Rojine'27/08/2020
' A Little Breeze '
'A Little Breeze'30/07/2020
' Mads '
'Mads'11/05/2020
'TEGENLICHT'
'TEGENLICHT'05/04/2020
'A hard lesson (La Leçon Difficile)
(Mastercopy William-Adolphe Bouguereau)'
'A hard lesson'11/03/2020
(24/03/2020, completed)
'A hard lesson'
'A hard lesson' is een mastercopy van William-Adolphe Bouguereau: 'La leçon Difficile', op ware grootte:
(100 h x 70 b, 39.3" h x 27.5" w).
Eerder ben ik bezig geweest met een mastercopy van John Singer Sargent, eveneens op ware grootte
(100 b x 120 h, 39.3" w x 47.2" h): 'Lady Agnew of Lochnaw'. Zij siert nu in onze woonkamer.
Het doel van een mastercopy is te ontdekken hoe een schilder schilderde. Zo heeft iedere schilder zijn eigen stijl en techniek, of het nou om Rembrandt gaat,
Velazquez of Caravaggio. Door je juist in die aspecten te verdiepen, kun je van een dergelijke mastercopy heel wat leren.
Bij 'La leçon Difficile' gaat het dus om de techniek en stijl van Bouguereau.
Via deze site kunt u - bijna dagelijks! - de vorderingen op de voet volgen. Dus kom na uw bezoek gerust nog eens terug!
'A hard lesson' (La Leçon Difficile)
Oil on canvas, 100 h x 70 b, 39.3" h x 27.5" w
'WILD AT HEART' (rebel heart)
'WILD AT HEART'02/01/2020
'The eyes have it! (the ayes have it!)'
'The eyes have it! (the ayes have it!)'28/11/2019
(28/11/2019, completed)
'The eyes have it! (the ayes have it!)'
Oil on canvas, 80 h x 60 b, 31.4" h x 23.6" w
'Hmpf...'
'Hmpf...'09/08/2019
'How about... our future?' (II)
'How about... our future?' (II) (detail)24/05/2019
(24/05/2019, completed)
'How about... our future?' (II)
Oil on canvas, 80 b x 60 h, 31.4" w x 23.6" h.
'How about... our future?' (I)
'How about... our future?' (I)24/04/2019
(24/04/2019, completed)
'How about... our future?' (I) (detail)
Oil on canvas, 60 b x 80 h, 23.6" w x 31.4" h.
'Serenity ? (Elsbeth)'
'Serenity'13/11/2018
'Ophelia'
'Ophelia'19/03/2019
(19/03/2019, completed)
'Ophelia'
Oil on canvas, 60 b x 80 h, 23.6" w x 31.4" h.
(Idd: de Ophelia uit de 'Hamlet')
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Course Traditional Oil Painting Techniques
Frequently a new course `Traditional oil painting techniques, painting in a realistic style` is being started. A course specially intended for those who want to learn to paint in the `Old masters tradition`.
In this course, which is suitable for both beginners and advanced painters, you will learn how to structure and build up a canvas according to the conventional painting techniques. In 10 lessons of each 2.5 to 3 hours, you will learn about composition, perspective, color theory and color, the workings of applying light and dark, of fabric expression, brushwork, tonation, working with glazes and working in layers. All of this will be taught with guiding references to paintings of famous ancient (and modern!) portrait, figurative, still life and landscape painters.
At half-time each lesson is interrupted for a `mini-lecture` of about 20 minutes, in which, by means of a slide show, particular aspects of painting and painting procedures according to the old Renaissance techniques will be clarified.During these `speed-colleges` - and for inspirational and illustrational purposes - different artists and disciplines of painting styles will be examined, such as Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Velázquez, John Singer Sargent, William Turner and surrealists like Salvador Dali. But contemporary artists will be discussed as well: Omar Ortiz, Christiane Wings, Rob Hefferan, Herman Tulp, Evert Thielen, Henk Helmantel, Walter Elst, Tjalf Sparnaay and others.
In the remaining time you will be painting with guidance of the teacher, providing you with tips and advice about the use of paints, brushes and canvas. Each lesson lasts 2.5 to 3 hours.
Lectures & presentations
On a regular basis I give lectures on Art and Art history. I try to pass on 'the story of art' to my audience in a passionate way, with the aim of making them as enthusiastic about it as I am.
All lectures are provided with visual material and last approximately 60 to 90 minutes, including a short break. They can be performed at any desired location. If necessary the necessary equipment can be provided.