Texel | Eierland Lighthouse from the Vuurtorenweg | Handmade Watercolour Painting

by WatercolorWall

Colourful painting of the Eierland Lighthouse on Texel from the Vuurtorenweg.
Handmade watercolour painting by painter Ricardo Bouman.

This painting is part of my collection 'Netherlands in Watercolour' and is a painting in the category Impressionism and illustrative line drawing.
The painting is a so-called 'Line & Wash' which is characterised by a black line drawing with a somewhat rough look, drawn with a crown pen and waterproof black ink and then coloured in with watercolour (watercolour).

The quick and somewhat rough pen and brush strokes in this painting create dynamism and a playful look. Summer colours were chosen in this painting. The dunes are a beautiful yellow and green with a clear blue summer sky.
The composition shows the Vuurtorenweg lighthouse road with a strong perspective where you are taken, as it were, towards the Eierland Lighthouse that is part of the Texel plate De Cocksdorp.

The Wadden island of Texel is my favourite Dutch holiday destination. I have visited the Eierland Lighthouse countless times. In beautiful, sunny or just stormy weather, each time I take my photo camera or sketchbook with me to capture the lighthouse and surrounding houses and the Texel dune landscape from different angles.

This painting is a compositional elaboration of one of my own photo images and you will see it in this album in different variations with different colours. Because I also painted this same composition with different weather conditions. In this case, a hot summer day.

The Eierland lighthouse stands on the northernmost tip of the island of Texel and was completed in 1864 and is a well-known structure in Texel.