Drawing on sketching block, Drawing,used draw the composition to final paintings . Van Goyen’s technique use * an almost watercolour-like technique so that his pencil drawing design is seen through the golden-brown colour of the paint above.
* The Dresden sketchbook, about 1648, Staatlichen Kunstammlungen.

Bibliography: Beck, Hans-Ulrich, Jan van Goyen-1596 ñ 1656. Richard Green, New Bond St. London W1X 9HD. 1996