art work: 'Pink Parasol' oil on cartboard by Dutch painter Frans Koppelaar.

A mother with her two kids on the beach of an internal sea somewhere in Portugal were the subject of this travel sketch. The children are being protected from the sun by a parasol whose distinctive pink color is delicately repeated in both the mother's sweater and a bath towel. The yellow and blue elements provide a perfect counterbalance in this sunny color composition.
"Sometimes reality is so beautiful that there is nothing to be changed. One can paint it as it is."