I’ve actually only painted two seascapes in acrylic on canvas, and one of them has remained empty so far, whilst the other features sailing boats; but I don’t think this is or was typically Dutch, unlike, for example, some of the ships in Amsterdam during Sail.
It would be a very long project for me to start drawing or painting the ships I really like – the old ones like ‘the Batavia’. Who knows, maybe I’ll get round to it one day. Or perhaps I’ll one day draw the river with its Rhine barges (which are used to transport goods), the meadows with the few remaining cows and some pollarded willows. But so far, I think I’ve only ever created one landscape using pastels. I’m not really into landscapes, so I stick to still lifes, and I’m not very good at portraits either – all that is still in the realm of things I’m learning.