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This photo shows a particularly beautiful colour combination: beautiful red metal against a cloudy sky with blue, pink and orange tones!
The red metal you see here is the roof of a lighthouse. The red comes from paint, and due to years of soaking in all the weather conditions, the paint is flaking off. This gives the metal dome a beautifully weathered look.
But where did this metal dome roof with beautiful wind vane come from? From which lighthouse? It is the roof of the lantern of the Westerschouwen lighthouse near Burgh-Haamstede. This lighthouse needed a rotating radar antenna on top, and the 1882 roof could not support the heavy antenna. So the lighthouse was given a new lantern with a stronger roof.
The old lantern was moved to Burghsluis harbour, where it served first as the harbour office and then as a meeting place for the local water sports club.
This roof is a real eye-catcher. The beautiful red colour of the weathered paint inspired me to find the right background. Two home-made photos were used for this: one of a beautiful cloudy sky in blue and white with the moon in first quarter. The second background photo is of a sunset in soft pastel shades.
Together, these three photos create a beautiful and warm atmospheric image.
Fun fact: the 1985 Dutch 250 guilder banknote shows the Westerschouwen lighthouse with this domed roof!
I see making art as a creative process.
The starting point of this process for me is always a photo or a painting of my own. Every work of art on this site is therefore based on a self-made photo or painting.
I find my sources of inspiration in everything around me...
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