Now that we are entering the autumn season, summer is giving a few weeks of sunny days as an 'encore'. In the centre of Amsterdam people are on cafe terraces enjoying the last rays of sun and realizing that soon autumn storms will knock on our windows and that we have pass through the dark and cold tunnel of winter These days the sunlight is low and at the end of the day the city is in a golden glow. In this light everything looks like being part of a big painting.





Unfortunately I was too busy to paint outside. I made a series of sketches of a circus girl doing hoola hoop dancing. a dance developed in Hawai in 1959. It is fun to watch and to draw. She is a born model. Also she seems to be born too late. She would fit better in the Moulin Rouge at the 'fin de siecle" when Toulouse de Lautrec was there. Now she has left to Berlin where there are more opportunities for this kind of performances.

My friend Marion is coming back from the USA and will bring a special device which i asked her to take. A "tube wringer", so that you can squeeze the last bits of paint of old tubes

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