Nightlights

Painting Nightlights

Mostly when I paint nightlights, I paint on a black … read more.

Let's take a Walk in Heaven, oil painting 60x40cm. Colourful clouds and mountains. As if they belong together, so you can walk on the clouds.

Let’s take a Walk in Heaven
Oil on canvas. 60x40cm.
Price: € 480,-

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
Oil on canvas. 70x50cm.
Price: € 1080,-

Almost Freedom. Oil painting of colourful bent bars in front of a quiet lake.

Almost Freedom,
oil on canvas, 40x30cm.
Price: € 490,-

Arabian Nights oil painting by Lia van Elffenbrinck, colourful city at night with moonlight and two towers in the background and a bridge to the horizon.

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

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,-

Golden Sun painting about a bright light shining on a lake. The yellow, green, orange colours are very brilliant

Golden Sun
Oil on canvas. 60x40cm.
Price: € 320,-

Smell the sea, yellow sun coming up in the orange red and purple sky, orange red sea with splashing water on rocks on the left, oil painting on 30x24cm. canvas by Lia van Elffenbrinck

Smell the Sea
Oils on canvas, 30x24cm.
Price: € 135,-

The Sun in the Lake, Oilpainting of a little lake or a swamp at night. The sun is rising on the water on the horizon you see trees and bushes. In the foreground some wool grass is growing. The colours are yellow, orange and blue. With the woolgrass in the foreground it could be the environment where I grew up at the peatland.

The Sun in the Lake
Oil on canvas. 50x40cm.
Price: € 300,-

Evening Light. Oilpainting of a sunset at a lake with many colours, blue, red ,yellow , green, purple on canvas 50x40cm.

Evening Light
Oil on canvas. 50x40cm.
Price: € 300,-

Nightfall. Oilpainting of a little lake or a swamp at night. The moon is shining on the water on the horizon you see trees. In the foreground some wool grass is growing. The colours are yellow blue and red

Nightfall
Oil on canvas. 50x40cm.
Price: € 300,-

Golden Morning Oilpainting of a little lake or a swamp in the morning. The sun is shining on the water on the horizon you see trees. In the foreground some wool grass is growing. The colours are yellow and burned sienna.

Golden Morning
Oil on canvas. 50x40cm.
Price: € 300,-

Blush of Nightfall. Colourful oil painting of a lake at sunset. The clouds are blue red and yellow. The colours are reflecting in the water. You can see some bushes and trees on a few islands. Canvas 40x30cm. by Lia van Elffenbrinck

Blush of Nightfall
Oil on canvas, 40x30cm.
Price: € 210,-

Night Elegance. Oil painting about a little lake at night. The moon is shining towards you. It must be spring because the brown trees and bushes are blooming. The yellow orange light gives you a warm feeling. Canvas 40x30cm. by Lia van Elffenbrinck.

Night Elegance
Oil on canvas, 40x30cm.
Price: € 210,-

Red Emotion. Oil painting about a lake in orange and red lights at sunset. You can sea the silhouettes of some islands with bushes on it. In the front the buckwheat is blooming. Canvas 40x30cm. by Lia van Elffenbrinck

Red Emotion
Oil on canvas, 40x30cm.
Price: € 210,-

Nightlight
Oil on canvas, 50x40cm.
Price: € 300,-

In the Field. Oil painting in the colours brown yellow and purple of a little village in the distance. In the sky you see meteorites which gives this painting a surreal effect.

In the Field
Oil on canvas. 50x40cm.
Price: € 300,-

What does the crow think, at sunset or at sunrise the craw is sitting on a pole, looking at the sea in yellow and purple, oil painting on a black canvas 40x30cm. by Lia van Elffenbrinck

What does the Crow think
Oils on canvas, 40x30cm.
Price: € 210,-

In the Night, brown rusty sky behind a brown and rusty lake at night oil painting on black canvas, 40x30cm. by lia van elffenbrinck artist

In the Night
Oil on canvas, 40x30cm.
Price: € 210,-

Morning has broken, Red clouds with sun rising in a yellow sky, brown trees and grass in the front, oil painting on canvas, 24x18cm by Lia van Elffenbrinck artist.

Morning has Broken
Oils on canvas, 24x18cm.
Price: € 120,-

Flooding Clouds. Oil painting on black canvas of a boisterous ocean in blue, grey, purple and white. The waves are rolling towards you. The clouds are threatening. Canvas 50x40cm. by Lia van Elffenbrinck

Flooding Clouds
Oil on canvas. 50x40cm.
Price: € 300,-

Twilight at Sea. Oilpainting of a turquoise beach with some brown rocks on the sand and in the water. The waves are splashing upto the rocks. Canvas 50x40cm.

Twilight at Sea
Oil on canvas. 50x40cm.
Price: € 300,-

Woven in Waves
Oils on canvas, 50x40cm.
Price: € 450,-

Ocean seperates land not souls, dark red horizon washing into purple clouds, the ocean also is red and purple, oil painting by lia van elffenbrinck painter

Ocean seperates Land, not Souls
Oils on canvasboard, 30x24cm.
Price: € 135,-

Bronze Light bounces off, oil painting on canvas, 30x24cm. Painted by Lia van Elffenbrinck, bronze sea. The waves are rolling towards you, standing on the beach at night

Bronze Light bounces off
Oil on canvas. 30x24cm.
Price: € 160,-

Gloom at Sea. Oil painting on a black canvas of a turquoise ocean at night, with the light of a pale white moon. Canvas 24x18cm. by Lia van Elffenbrinck.

Gloom at Sea
Oil painting on canvas 24x18cm.
Price: € 96,-

Waves. Oil painting of the beach. You see the water and the sand in the colours brown, beige and ocker.

Waves
Oils on canvas 50x40cm.
Price: € 300,-

Water Water Everywhere oil painting on black canvas 30x24cm. Sea Shore in brown and yellow by Lia van Elffenbrinck

Water Water Everywhere
Oils on canvas, 30x24cm.
Price: € 135,-

Deeper Shades of Night, Oil on canvas 50x40cm. Painting by Lia van Elffenbrinck, blue and purple waves at the beach at night time

Deeper Shades of Night
Oil on canvas. 50x40cm.
Price: € 300,-

Purple Wave
Oils on canvas, 80x60cm.
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Painting on a black canvas

When I paint my nightlights on a black canvas, I often use oils. Painting with oils feels like playing. It gives me lots of fun moments and a happy mood. I like the way you can mix and blend everything at the same time.

Although I know it isn’t very healthy, I love the smell of turpentine oil. It reminds me of the ancient shoe polish.

Read about Playing with oils.

Most of my oil paintings where finished in only one day. I just can’t stop when the paint is still wet.

When I do a group of workshops, the first evening is always with oils and on a black canvas, because staring on a black canvas is less scary and putting on some paint is not really visible, so participants don’t have the feeling that they make mistakes. I do that to let the participants know and feel that they really can paint.

Hans Hofmann once said: In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light. He was so right.