The first and the last Blockstudy of 2013

First (January)

Last (December, 180 blockstudies later)

I did some 500 paintings and studies in oil this year. It has become very clear that the work on the blocks helped me by far most to get better. So for 2014 i set out to keep it simple and spend a lot of time on these studies and ignore the fact that most people find them boring ;-)

Happy New Year!

Prussian P8

20 cm x 15 cm, Oil on Board

Pick Me

15 cm x 20 cm, Oil on Board

No Kissing Tonight

20 cm x 15 cm, Oil on Board

Not for sale

Sumos

20 cm x 15 cm, Oil on Board

This is the first painting done on commission. "Three small paintings of vegetables for the dining area" for a British lady.

Not for sale

Two Apples

20 cm x 15 cm, Oil on Board

Head over Heels

15 cm x 20 cm, Oil on Board

Five Past Three

20 cm x 15 cm, Oil on Board

SOLD

Willi Brandt

15 cm x 20 cm, Oil on Board

Painted today, his 100th Birthday.

Jööö!

15 cm x 20 cm, Oil on Board

SOLD

Timeless Beauty

20 cm x 15 cm, Oil on Board

SOLD

Catwalk Cafe

15 cm x 20 cm, Oil on Board

Booting the Dancer

15 cm x 20 cm, Oil on Board

Vacant

20 cm x 15 cm, Oil on Board

Arms Wide Open

15 cm x 20 cm, Oil on Board, Alla Prima.

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Healthy Dose of Color

20 cm x 15 cm, Oil on Board, Alla Prima

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First Ascent

20 cm x 15 cm, Oil on Board, Alla Prima

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One More Time

20 cm x 15 cm, Oil on Board, Alla Prima

Oh boy, I feel so creative today... Melodies are created in my head and I am composing some text to it :

One more time
We're gonna celebrate
Oh yeah, all right
Don't stop the dancing

You know I'm just feeling, celebration tonight
Celebrate, don't wait to leave
No, we don't stop
You can't stop, we're gonna celebrate
One more time, one more time
One more time

(Daft Punk)

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Painting Utilities

15 cm x 20 cm, Oil on Board, Alla Prima

The dirty bottle contains my painting medium. I use the mixture Carol Marine recommended in her blog: 2 parts linseed oil, 1 part linseed stand oil and 1 part odorless mineral spirit (e.g. Schmincke Terpin). Works fine for me.

The bottle on the left is sunflower oil I use for cleaning my brushes. I use just that and no chemical solvents. Since i use oil for cleening my brushes stay in good shape for much longer. 

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Märklin Generations

20 cm x 15 cm, Oil on Board, Alla Prima

For many decades those little train models built by Märklin were the most cheered gifts for the boys. You don't have your christmas gifts yet? Nah, in 2013 you better show up with something else!

SOLD

Warm Cool Intersections

15 cm x 20 cm, Oil on Board, Alla Prima

I try to paint from life as much as possible but this one was done after a photo. It was taken at a side arm of the river Rhein. It would have been rather difficult to paint standing more than knee deep in the water.

A Night Out Solo

15 cm x 20 cm, Oil on Board, Alla Prima

German locomotive 111 041 - 5000 horse powers - some 200 were built between 1974 and 1984. The number of models is probably two to three orders of magnitude larger. Dad holds two, amongst 300 others. They could bring me through approximately two long winters...

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Fingers Crossed

10 cm x 15 cm, Oil on Board

Goddess of Punctuality

20 cm x 15 cm, Oil on Board, Alla Prima

The Swiss SBB Locomotive 10104. Finally, I get a grasp of the beauty and sense of dad's model railway.

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White Boat

20 cm x 15 cm, Oil on Board, Alla Prima

Signal Recommends Listerine!

15 cm x 20 cm, Oil on Board, Alla Prima

Maggi Ad

15 cm x 20 cm, Oil on Board, Alla Prima

Chancellor Series: No.5 Helmut Schmidt

15 cm x 20 cm, Oil on Board

Color Training

Föhnsturm

20 cm x 15 cm, Oil on Board, Alla Prima

Waldi's Classico

15 cm x 15 cm, Oil on Board, Alla Prima

Haute Cuisine

15 cm x 20 cm, Oil on Board

The Rush

15 cm x 15 cm, Oil on Board, Alla Prima

Ventscape 1

Ventscapes i call small composition studies that use a photographic reference just as a starting point to invent landscapes. They address the need to get more creative with the design of my landscape paintings.

Link to the reference photo

Outcasted cap

15 cm x 20 cm, Oil on Board, Alla Prima

Sierra Lake (after Edgar Payne)

36 cm x 30 cm, Oil on Board
Link to the Original

Call to Deliver

15 cm x 20 cm, Oil on Board, Alla Prima

Cups

20 cm x 15 cm, Oil on Board, Alla Prima

Small Leaf Study

Oil on Paper

Onion an a Half 2

15 cm x 15 cm, Oil on Board, Alla Prima

Onion and a Half

20 cm x 15 cm, Oil on Board, Alla Prima

Chancellor Series: No.6 Helmut Kohl

15 cm x 20 cm, Oil on Board, Alla Prima

The Local

25 cm x 25 cm, Oil on Board, Alla Prima

Copy of an Ed Terpening Painting

NFS. I copied this work to get more used to landscapes with highly saturated colors and much paint. Ed Terpening is an American painter with a weird Bio ;-) 

http://www.edterpening.com/biography.html

Coffee Rush

20 cm x 15 cm, Oil on Board, Alla Prima

60 min Time limited

Ancient November

48 cm x 27 cm, Oil on Board, Alla Prima

With the Crowd

30 cm x 20 cm, Oil on Board, Alla Prima