Van Gogh: 100 Watercolors

Coalmine in the Borinage
1879, watercolor

It was presumably during the preparation for his theology studies (which he would never start), in 1877, that Van Gogh painted Winter, in life as well.

It was not until 1880 when he, persuaded by his brother Theo, decided to become an artist.

By the age of 27 Vincent van Gogh could look back on a disastrous professional career: in about ten years time he had failed as an employee at an art dealer, as a teacher and had given up another job at a bookshop in order to study theology in Amsterdam.

he continued to refine his technique, he used more and brighter colors in his watercolors. In the letter to his brother Theo, in December of 1888 Van Gogh wrote the following:

Similar to his drawings, Van Gogh often did watercolors as studies before doing an oil painting or as practice.

prints. He produced nearly 150 watercolor paintings during his life.

In just over a decade, he produced more than 2100 artworks, consisting of 860 oil paintings and more than 1,300 watercolors, drawings, sketches and

Vincent van Gogh began to draw as a child, and he continued to draw throughout the years that led up to his decision to become an artist.

There were periods when he wished to do nothing but draw. Although his paintings are much more popular than his drawings, Van Gogh is considered a master of drawing.