I went back to the Island of Texel again for a weekend. Jet and Anneke waited for me at the harbour of Oudeschild. We could stay at Jet's sisters house. and we did not need to go far to find a painting subject. we just settledit on the dike near the sheeps overlooking the flat country and looking up at the endless skies. With watercolour we tried to catch the everchanging colors of the clouds .

I the evening i found on the bookshelf a copy of Henry Moores Sheep Sketchbook (1972) which he drew for his daughter Mary. It was whilst working in a small studio overlooking the fields at his home in Much Hadham that Henry Moore first became aware of the sheep grazing there. He began to draw them and, as he sketched, he explored what they were really like - the way they moved, the shape of their bodies under the fleece. He draw the sheep again that summer after they were shorn, when he could see the shapes of the bodies which had been covered by wool.Solid in form, sudden and vigourous in movement, Henry Moore's sheep are created through a network of swirling and zigzagging lines in the rapid and sensitive medium of ballpoint pen.

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