He had an affair with a pregnant prostitute who he later used as a model for his paintings. Van Gogh's antics will distance him from Mauve. Apparently a recurring theme in his life. He would then visit his parents during the Christmas season and also find himself alienated from his father. when it was revealed that Van Gogh did not go to church on Christmas Day, due to the presence of unrequited love there. Van Gogh's personal anxieties and apparently erratic moods began to manifest themselves in these years. Perhaps one of Van Gogh's early paintings, shown below, known as “Beach at Scheveningen in Calm Weather” (1882) shows a different side of Van Gogh's early technique and artistic tendencies. What the drawings above have in common is the concern Van Gogh's almost obsessive approach to finding a perspective that emphasizes the diagonal depth of the landscape. We find this type of vision in much of Van Gogh's early attempts. Another aspect worth noting is the more questionable uses of paint. As if Van Gogh used color in the same way you use a pencil to make a sketch. Quickly dabbing and stroking to bring out the momentary "impression" of the scene rather than its actual representative representation. (Sweetman, 1990) Having had a falling out with Mauve and finding a lack of inspiration. he returned to live with his parents. It is precisely in his homeland that Van Gogh began to be fascinated by the paintings of Jeane-Franqois Millet, who became famous in Europe for his works depicting peasant life. These prompted Van Gogh to think back to his years with the miners. Perhaps thinking that there was something honest, faithful and spiritual in the peasant's work, Van Gogh began to focus on the subject that would slowly come to dominate his pictorial environment. One of the first paintings of this type by Van Gogh.“Peat Boat with Two Figures” (1882). Demonstrates the continuation of Van Gogh