Beautiful Amsterdam

gullfo

nice work! does she really only have one arm?

majid

Ah, I just realized that... It was really tough to reach 100percent similarity using watercolor, and this is the reference photo:
https://www.royal-house.nl/photos/official-photographs
https://www.royal-house.nl/binaries/large/content/gallery/royalhouse/content-afbeeldingen/staatsiefotos/official-photograph-queen-maxima---2018---erwin-olaf.jpg

majid

Happy New Year all!
I wish you a very happy healthy wealthy new year!
Some new watercolors.

ntxdave

Very beautiful indeed.

majid

Thank you Dave! It seems I am getting better at it.

majid

On Jan 24th we delivered our project "SportyVerse" and received the certificate of course completion on 26th. Now I am living in Munich, for just a few weeks, applying for a proper job (as an architect, CAD/BIM specialist or rendering expert in Germany / Netherlands).
So less spare time. Today I had the chance to spare some time and do this. The Basilica of Saint Nicholas in Amsterdam is one of my favorites.

Saint Nicholas.jpg

ntxdave

I wish my mind could conceive things like this.

Again,

BTW: Good luck in Munich.

majid

Thank you, Dave!
Munich is charming city also, and more color in the sky,... I was stuffed with grayish sky

majid

Last day came across the St. Johann Baptist church, near my brother's stay. Did this for a friend in Munich.

St. Johann Baptist church

Mike Amos

Great pictures mate, hugely talented.

majid

Thank you dear Mike.
Just spared some time to do some modeling and rendering as a fun task.
https://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=179&t=76515&p=695060#p695060

majid

Last one and a half months I have been busy applying and constantly job hunting living in Solln, Munich. Today I spared some time to make this.

ntxdave

@majid
As usual, Majid - nice work. I wish I had the talent to generate something like this.

ntxdave

@ntxdave
I spent a couple of years in Germany while I was in the US army (late 1966 to late 1968) and I think I drove through Munich but am not sure.

majid

@ntxdave really?
I was mainly in Solln, far from downtown, and it was a cozy place.

gullfo

@majid nicely done! when you see it in the maps, it's not as pretty though LOL.

majid

@gullfo Wow , good job Glen, I changed the composition somehow and it is not yet the best I am wondering how did you found the exact spot!
This is the photo I used, and as you see I have changed the colors, light direction, and somehow the composition....

gullfo

@majid secret spy technology called google maps plus you mentioned where you were staying so finding a garibaldi store was fairly easy...

majid

@gullfo , without a clue (GARIBALDI), Google Maps wouldn't help you, you have keen eyes on details.
Also contrary to public belief, I realized German people are very friendly. I went to a bookstore, near the GARIBALDI, talking with the bookseller lady about art books, etc, we became friends! She invited me to their villa near Uffing! His wife Reinhold also was a children's books illustrator. for dinner we met another cartoonist and his wife, We met twice again in Solln, she introduced other friends, and now feel old friends!

majid

Had the chance to make more...