THE WORK OF MY GRANDFATHER

My grandfather Robert Uleyn, my mother's father,  was a Sunday painter. This means he was a non-professional painter and unschooled. His true profession was being a schoolteacher and he painted during his spare time. My youngest brother Kristoffel is the lucky owner of his sketchbook. Below you see some pages of this small book. Sometimes he made preliminary sketches with the aim of  painting it at a later stage. I put some sketches next to the painting. I love the annotations of the colors he wanted to use.