POSTCARD CHALLENGE WK 11~NETHERLANDS

Week 11 finds us in the country where a vast majority of it's  land mass is under sea level-Netherlands.
Netherlands  is well known for tulips, wooden- shoes , bikes, canals and the famous windmills. It was home to many famous writers, scholars and  artist such  as: Van Gogh, Rembrandt, Hals, Mondrian, Peter Paul Rubbens, but my favorite would have to be Johannes Vermeer- who did "The Girl with the Pearl Earring". But with all this information; I wanted to stay true to my character and chose my subject matter to be architecturally influenced. I found this amazing building in Hilversum-"Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid". Which means the Dutch institute for Sound &Vision. It is a cubed shaped building; 5 floor above ground and 5 floors below. The building holds the national broadcasting archives and its glass covered exterior is breathtaking. The actual glass has pictures of different shows-like multiple TV screens   with every changing channels (follow this link to learn more : http://dutchdesign.submarinechannel.com/?p=415

Front of Card

                                                              This was done with watercolors and paint markers.
                                                  The Neutelings Riedjik Architectural firm designed the building
                                                  as well several other famous building throughout the world-They
                                                  submitted a plan for the WTC Memorial, but currently the US project
                                                  they are working on is at the Art Museum in Cincinnati , Ohio.

Back of Card

Correspondence:

"Melite,

I know I just wrote to you, but I just remembered something about

Austria. The night you were going to supper with your Friends, you mentioned

you hope Franceso did not bring Pierre with her. Hope this helps.

Oh Yea! when I left Belgium last month I stopped off in Hilversum,

Netherlands-Visited the Dutch Institute for Sound & Vision.

Amazing "cubism" architecture!!

Alexander"

 Background has windmill stamped images and Lindy blue mist over it (that's why blurry)

Page in Book

Used several images of tulips, Dutch wood shoes and

image of the "Girl with the Pearl Earring" all downloaded

from the Internet- The windmills are done with Prismacolored

pencils, sky is watercolors and canal is mixture of both.

Once again I had a blast venturing to a new land-Now off to have

an arting weekend with my friends.

Happy Creating!

Fotojoy/joyce