Abstract Architecture

Most of my abstract architecture paintings …. read more

Reaching the clouds, semi abstract painting of some towers or buildings reaching out above the clouds. On one of the buildings you see an antenna.

Reaching the Clouds
Acrylics on canvas, 70x50cm.
Price: € 960,-

Colourful semi-abstract painting of Pillars with light behind them. Painting on canvas 50x40cm.

Pilars of Life
Acrylics on canvas, 50x40cm.
Price: €720,-

Fata Morgana, abstract painting of a city. Because of the reflections you see that it must be on the waterside. The buildings are very colourful. A tower could be in fire.

Fata Morgana
Acrylics on canvas, 100x80cm.
Price: € 1260,-

Candy Land, abstract oil painting of a very colourful city at the waterside. The city reflects in the water on the front. The sky is ful of coloured clouds.

Candy Land
Oils on canvas, 70x50cm.
Price: € 900 ,-

The Opera, oil painting on canvas board of a music hall. The light is on and shines on the blue chairs in the big hall.

The Opera
Ink on canvas, 30x21cm.
Price: € 350,-

Standing Up, statue standing in the water next to a high city, the sunlight in the colourful sky gives the water a silvery shine. abstract painting oils and acrylics on canvas 80x60cm.

Standing Up
Acrylics/oils on canvas, 80x60cm. Price: € 1100,-

The Bright Sight of Tomorrow. Colourful village in the moon shine. The sky is dark blue and the yellow moon is shining on the weird lovely houses which are standing in the water. In some of the houses the light is on. Behind the village you can see water at the horizon.

The Bright Sight of Tomorrow
Acrylics on canvas, 100x120cm. Price: € 1980,-

$Arabian Nights oil painting by Lia van Elffenbrinck, Every night a look at this painting will inspire another story. When I was a child, my mother always read to me from "Arabian Nights". This painting captures a fraction of all the stories and dreams it awakened in me.$

Arabian Nights,
Acrylics on canvas 40x50cm.
Price: € 810,-

Tower of Strength colorful abstract painting of a tower or a castle. When you look at this paiting you get the idea that this tower is a strong one.

Tower of Strength
Acrylics on canvas, 40x50cm
Price: € 720,-

Living next door, Fantasy painting of a village at night full of colours. The sky is dark blue and the yellow moon is shining on the weird lovely houses. It is not possible to build a city like this, but you can paint it.

Living next door
Acrylics on canvas, 50x70cm.
Price: € 1080,-

You are not alone. Fantasy painting of a village at night full of colours. The sky is dark blue and the yellow moon is shining on the weird lovely houses which are standing in the water. In most of the houses the light is on

You are not alone
Acrylics on canvas, 50x70cm.
Price: € 1080,-

Confused City. Gouache painting of a colourful city at night with a full yellow moon shining on the roofs. In the front there is water and a bridge. The colours of the buildings are reflecting in the water. canvas 50x70cm. by Lia van Elffenbrinck

Confused City
Gouache on canvas, 50x70cm.
Price: € 1080,-

Descend to Safety. Fantasy painting of a village at evening full of colours. The sky is dark blue and the yellow moon is shining on the weird lovely houses which are standing in the water. In some of the houses the light is on. Acrylics on canvas, 80x60cm.

Descend to Safety
Acrylics on canvas, 80x60cm.
Price: € 1260,-

Painting about a City at night like a fairytale, blue in the back and colourful in the front oils on canvas by Lia van Elffenbrinck

The City never Visited
Oils on canvas, 70x50cm.
Price: € 1080,-

The surprised House painting of a colourful fantasy city in the daylight.Hot air balloons in the blue sky, a broad ocker road in the middle to the horizon, houses in all colours and shapes, in the front a round tower with windows where you see Richard Wagner as a director, on canvas 120x100x4cm. by Lia van Elffenbrinck

The surprised House
Acrylics on canvas, 120x100x4cm.
Price: € 1980,-

Painting of a colourful fantasy village at night or in the evening. All the coloured houses seem to grow out of the ground. The sky is dark blue and the yellow moon is shining on the weird lovely city. Metamorphosis, acrylic painting on canvas 50x40cm.

Metamorphosis
Acrylics on canvas, 50x40cm.
Price: € 810,-

Ode to Feininger gouache painting of a colourful city, you see various buildings in all shapes and colours by Lia van Elffenbrinck. I made this painting as an hommage to Lional Feininger

Ode to Feininger
Gouache on canvas, five panels of 30x100cm. Price: € 1500,-

Urbe in Orbem. Acrylic Painting about a city in an orb or in a waterbubble. The big drop with the city in it is coming out of a water circle, all around are little waterdrops with highlights. The painting is very colourful especially the city. In the back you see another drop with a city in it splashing out of the water. 160x140cm. by Lia van Elffenbrinck. Made for the exhibition in De Fundatie in Zwolle, The Netherlands

Urbe in Orbem
Acrylics on canvas, 160x140cm
Price: € 2700,-

The Glow of Evening Fantasy painting of a village at night full of colours. The sky is dark blue and the yellow moon is shining on the weird lovely city. The big tower on the left with it's red roof looks like a tea pot, in the front there is water with a yellow brown bridge, Canvas 70x50cm. by Lia van Elffenbrinck

The Glow of Evening.
Acrylics on canvas, 70x50cm.
Price: € 1080,-

City in the Morning, oil painting 30x40cm. by Lia van Elffenbrinck, Brown city in front of yellow an blue sky, the sun is rising in white light behind the buildings

City in the Morning
Oil on canvas. 30x40cm.
Price: € 350,-

Yo's City. Acrylic fantasy painting of a colourful city at night with a full yellow moon shining on the roofs of the weird Houses..

Yo’s City
Acrylics on canvas, 20x20cm.
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The Towers. Gouache painting on canvas of a colourful castle with four purple towers with yellow roofs and big green brown stairs leading into one of the towers. By Lia van Elffenbrinck artist.

The Towers
Gouache on canvas, 60x80x4cm.
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Silence on an Sunday Morning fantasy painting of a city in all colours, dark blue sky with a yellow moon. The houses have different colours and shapes, it is as if they are looking at you, on canvas 50x40cm. by Lia van Elffenbrinck

Silence on Sunday Morning
Acrylics on canvas, 50x40cm.
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Confused Village. Colourful city, painted with gouache on canvas 50x70cm. by Lia van Elffenbrinck.

Confused Village
Gouache on canvas, 80x60cm.
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The Colorfield Shadows abstract painting of a colourful city at the waterside on wood 120x120cm.

The Colourfield Shadows
Acrylics on waterproof panel 122×122 cm.
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Sunday Morning Storm abstract painting of a stormy sky with colourful clouds all driven by the wind to the church on the edge of a city. The colourful water in the front is all washed up by the storm on canvas 70x50cm. by Lia van Elffenbrinck

Sunday Morning Storm
Acrylics on canvas, 70x50cm.
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Abstract Architecture

Most of my abstract architecture paintings arise naturally. I just move the brush or the palette knife on the canvas and there it goes. When I paint with acrylics I don’t get a mess that quickly because the paint dries very fast. That’s also the reason that you can take the painting wherever you want. Sometimes this makes the process more easy, because you can paint it over and over again. Mostly I don’t know what the painting is going to be, so I just start with a colour or two and make movements on the canvas. Then I can see from the shapes what it could become: a building, stairs, a horizon, a whole town, or just a tower.

When the painting becomes a City

Often I am inspired by Max van Huut. He is one of the architects from “De Buitenplaats” in Eelde in The Netherlands. When I start painting a town, I’m just as thrilled and at the same time in complete panic as with an abstract painting. That feeling is the same every time. It is a wonderful feeling,

but again it creates chaos in my head.

I try to create order in this chaos by drawing smooth lines and by bringing harmony into the bright colors, but the tension in the painting must remain. I do that by interrupting the smooth lines here and there. They must be round, curved lines. A single straight line can bring some tension to it.

The first drawing is a doodle like a child’s scratch.

Adding lights and shades create roofs, walls or floors. At first sight there is harmony, but the chaos persists, because it is not always clear what for instance is the roof and what the wall. Still, I want it to look like if you could build a town like that.

Furthermore, the colors shouldn’t be pastel, they should not be floating. A pastel-colored world does not exist and the world is not only nice and sweet. I love deep and full colors. You can not achieve this effect by putting the right color in one go, only by creating a new layer over it each time again. It looks like a beautiful, brightly colored city, but when you take a close view, you’ll see that it is impossible to build a world like this.

Usually towns are in the dark, but very colorful. There are no people on the streets and the moon is shining. In every painitng you’ll see the light shining on the city. It reflects the mood of the city. This mood mostly determines the title of the painting.

To read more about the emergence of several paintings look on my Artistic Approach.