Nancy van den Boom
vibrant oil paintings

Early spring paintings

April 12, 2013

Colour is com­ing back in nature!

All paint­ings are 30 x 40 cm, oil paint on can­vas /​ board!

Give Away March Announcement!

March 17, 2013

This is the March Give Away Painting!

Today I will draw the win­ner in a painterly way!

Here we go!

Writ­ing all the names of the par­tic­i­pants on my palette!

All the names cov­ered by yummy pink oil paint!

I look for­ward to announc­ing the win­ner, my blind­fold
(by sweet Kim Cow­ley) is ready to cover my eyes so the draw will be honest!

Turn­ing and turn­ing the palette.…

Almost ready for the draw.…

Palette knife ready!
I will remove paint with it, until Cor shouts: YES I SEE A NAME APPEARING!!

And there the win­ner appears, it is my dear Friend Jana Tarhala from Finland!

Con­grat­u­la­tions Jana ! The paint­ing will be on it’s way tomor­row, accom­pa­nied with lots of love for you, Teemu and your furry friends!

In April there will be another Give Away paint­ing, inspired by Spring!
So there will be new chances for those who’d like to receive a free paint­ing.
Thank you for the won­der­ful com­ments on the paint­ing and par­tic­i­pat­ing in this
Give Away.

New Together Piece

March 10, 2013

My hus­band Cor van der Plaat and I worked together again, after quite some time.
Cor did the sil­ver smithing, I did the .… paint­ing for the use of wear­able art.
I use my finest brushes and it is just great to see the sil­ver and the painted can­vas put together by Cor!

The pen­dant mea­sures 30 mm square, the neck­lace is sil­ver too, and 50 cm long.

We’ll be mak­ing more pen­dants soon!

Painting en plein air almost spring!

March 9, 2013

I enjoy paint­ing out­side so very much!
So many beau­ti­ful places to go to where I live in the Netherlands!

Exhibition

February 6, 2013

About 7 of my paint­ings will be exhib­ited in Bus­sum, The Nether­lands at
Arts of Lecadre.
They are all 30 x 40 cm.

Painting en plein winter air

January 26, 2013

I wanted to painted en plein air this win­ter. So I did. It was minus 5 with a strong wind and quite cold. But I enjoyed this very much. Out in the field.
Paint­ing 1,5 hours.

Winter paintings

January 19, 2013

It has been a long time since I blogged. About time I show you my winterpaintings.

Size of the paint­ings: 30 x 40 cm (12 x 15 inches), except for the square ones, they’re 20 x 20 cm (10 x 10 inches).

Today I will paint en plein air, winterlandscape.…it’s cold and there’s a strong wind, but I really want to paint out­side. And not only in sum­mer, but also now, to cap­ture to cold, in the cold. I will post pic­tures soon!

Give Away Winner Announcement!

December 21, 2012

This is the give away paint­ing, oil paint­ing Snow Land, 20 x 20 cm

There were lovely entries for my “short­est day of 2012″-give away!

Thank you so much every­one for all the beau­ti­ful com­ments on the painting!

And then I had the impos­si­ble task of choos­ing a win­ner. Some com­ments were short, some were long, some were even poetic and I enjoyed every one of them. So I wanted to have a fair draw and every­one should have the same chances. Every par­tic­i­pant wants to win this painting…

So here we go:

Here are all your names!

I folded them to lit­tle “snow balls”

Here’s some white paint! I need it for the draw!

The snow balls go into the bowl and I shake them.…

I slowly pour the snow­balls onto the can­vas with the white paint.….

The snow­ball that falls into the white paint.….

Is the winner!

I pick the winner.…

And unfold.…

Yes we have a winner!

Yay!

Con­grat­u­la­tions Viki! You will have your snow in Israel!
Thanks every­one for par­tic­i­pat­ing! I hope you enjoyed and I promise to do another one in Jan­u­ary to cel­e­brate the new year!

LOVE,
Nancy

Another Snow Painting

December 19, 2012

I am exper­i­ment­ing with paint­ing snow and it’s an adven­ture!
I worked on this one early this morn­ing and this evening.

oil paint, 30 x 40 cm

Snow Painting Give Away

December 16, 2012

This tiny paint­ing will be my give away Decem­ber 2012!

If you want to par­tic­i­pate, please com­ment on this post and tell me why you would like to win this tiny paint­ing of 20 x 20 cm :
“Win­ter in the Neter­lands“
sides painted, ready to hang!

Here you can see me paint­ing in my studio.

I hope there will be LOTS of par­tic­i­pants, so please comment!

Thanks for watch­ing and participating.…..

Nancy

Snow paintings

December 11, 2012

It is snow­ing in the Nether­lands!
I feel inspired to catch the cold in tiny paintings.

These are snow cov­ered tulipfields.

The flat coun­try of the Nether­lands.

Size of the paint­ings: tiny! 18 x 24 cm !

Oil Painting Lavenderfield Provence

December 10, 2012

I had a great time paint­ing this laven­der­field and trees. It’s an adven­ture work­ing with the big brushes and thick paint! Size of the paint­ing: 70 x 90 cm (27,5 x 35,5 inches).

It’s painted in thick, vibrant oil paint, chunky and free.

Here are some close ups!

And on the easel!

The paint­ing is for sale now in my ETSY-​​shop

If you like the paint­ing, but pre­fer pro­fes­sional printed post­cards, I offer them in my shop as well as set of three with envelopes. As an extra you’ll receive some dried laven­der to expe­ri­ence the lovely scent!

Painting for Royal Hollandia : Dutch Cheese!

December 1, 2012

In Jan­u­ary this year it started with an email from Osborne Pike, a spe­cial­ist brand­ing and pack­ag­ing design agency in the UK. If I wanted to paint for them. I hardly could believe this. But yes, that’s exactly what I want! And then a very excit­ing process started, with lots of sketch­ing, oil paint­ing, pic­tures, emails and tele­phonecalls to work together in a very inspir­ing and con­struc­tive way.
I have been work­ing for “a big agency in a small pack­age” with great peo­ple who helped me so well to get the result that was required. I was very lucky to meet them in Sep­tem­ber in Ams­ter­dam, when Osborne Pike cel­e­brated 10 years Osborne Pike!

On the Osborne Pike web­site you can read and see beau­ti­ful images of the brand Royal Hol­lan­dia by Fries­land Camp­ina, the Dutch client we worked for. The story about devel­op­ing this pack­ag­ing is told here and I am very proud to be part of the story with my paint­ings for the Royal Hol­lan­dia brand.

I am so glad I could work together on this project with my hus­band
Cor van der Plaat, who made the pro­fes­sional pho­tographs for pro­duc­tion. This made it very easy to work and quick too. We are a team together! And ofcourse he was tak­ing pic­tures in The Cheese Fac­tory too (see pic­ture below).

On Octo­ber 5th the The Cheese Fac­tory in the very pit­toresk Dutch Volen­dam was opened. We vis­ited this beau­ti­ful place where huge prints of my paint­ing are dis­played in a won­der­ful set­ting with old tools of the trade of cheese­mak­ing in the Nether­lands. And ofcourse, cheeses with Royal Hol­lan­dia labels! It was great to see the huge prints. It was won­der­ful to see many tourists buy­ing the Royal Hol­lan­dia baby­cheeses and pho­tograph­ing the huge prints of my paint­ings. The cheeses taste really good!

It was an adven­ture I can tell you. A dream come true.
And I am excited that Osborne Pike who hired me, is happy with my work.
Steve Osborne, man­ag­ing direc­tor, wrote this testimonial/​recommendation for me:

“As is nor­mal in the design busi­ness, we ‘bor­rowed’ a visual from the inter­net to get across a cer­tain style of image for a client presentation.

When later in the project we realised that we wanted some­thing exactly like this for the actual design, we con­tacted the artist (Nancy) and asked if she would con­sider a com­mis­sion: To paint sev­eral Dutch scenes in her vivid, chunky, almost edi­ble style, for cheese pack­ag­ing to be sold in Spain and France.

We wanted to use the work to com­mu­ni­cate not only the beauty of the Dutch land­scape, but also the artistry of cheese­mak­ing, hence it was impor­tant to use a work of art and not sim­ply photography.

Nancy enthu­si­as­ti­cally accepted, and then pro­ceeded (from our point of view) to break the record for speed and accu­racy of response to our brief­ing. She pro­duced 5 scenes and 2 still lives within 3 weeks, includ­ing numer­ous stages of feed­back from our­selves as the design­ers, and also of course the client team.

Through­out this process Nancy was always very pos­i­tive, and we really enjoyed work­ing with her.

I would encour­age any­one who likes her style but has another sub­ject in mind to just ask. You’ll get what you wanted quickly, with top qual­ity, and also with a smile!” Novem­ber 13, 2012

I can only say, thank you guys for find­ing me, work­ing with me, you are awesome!

Poppy Hill

October 20, 2012

I had a great time paint­ing this big can­vas 70 x 90 cm, thick, vibrant oil paint!

First I show you a detail

and some more:

and all of it

I hope you enjoy my colours! The paint­ing is for sale in my ETSY-​​shop

A surprise for Kim!

September 6, 2012

Cor and I made a trip to Maas­tricht, where my ances­tors lived. It’s a trip of 250 km, we made by train, on Mon­day. One of my cre­ative friends, Kim Nijsten lives in a vil­lage near Maas­tricht and we would like to meet, but Kim had to work that day.
This is Kim!

I admire Kim for her tal­ent for work­ing with felt and flow­ers!
I thought it would be nice to take a gift for her to Maas­tricht and leave it in the build­ing where my great-​​granddad had his carriage-​​company in 1900.
Now there’s a carshop in this build­ing! The very friendly owner put away the present safely for Kim and said she could ask for John, when she’d come to pick up her present! A day later Kim col­lected her present and blogged about it.
It’s so nice to read about her find­ing out what I gave to her!
This is my present!


I hope Kim can enjoy wear­ing this locket for many years in good health.