Restraints:
- use of only one brush (flat, half inch wide)
- no carving out (not allowed to repaint the backround over the figure)
Friday, July 31, 2015
Small Figure Workout
Restraints:
- use of only one brush (flat, half inch wide)
- no carving out (not allowed to repaint the backround over the figure)
Thursday, July 30, 2015
Tuesday, July 28, 2015
Sunday, July 26, 2015
Friday, July 24, 2015
Study of a Jeremy Mann master painting
30 cm x 50 cm, Oil, Copyright: Jeremy Mann.
Did you just mention Monet again??? Ok, let's play this out!
You say Monet. I say Mann. I won!
You say van Gogh, I say Zbukvic. I won!
You say Vermeer...
Yawn. Hey listen, I liked Chopin but in the meantime even the Beegees don't get me any more. I am up for something new!
You say Sargent. Ooops, you won!
Thursday, July 23, 2015
Lucky moment
Maybe you can imagine that for a startup painter it is quite hard to start up on the selling part of the game... Today is a great day for me on that part, a day i won't forget... Lucky enough a gallerist invited me to bring a view pieces to choose from...
I went there yesterday, bringing 18 pieces with me... to my surprise he took them all. Today he wrote me that 5 are sold. Hey everyone, keep in mind that lucky moments are rare and need to be celebrated accordingly! :-)
Galerie Lauth
Mundenheimer Stasse 252
67061 Ludwigshafen
https://www.galerie-lauth.de
Wednesday, July 22, 2015
A Miss and the Aftermath
The upper picture shows what I painted today - a desaster of chalkiness. So I stopped it there and played with photoshop to learn what changes would make the painting look more acceptable... Higher color temperature, higher saturation, lower darks.
Monday, July 20, 2015
Friday, July 17, 2015
Not Quite Pisa
30 cm x 30 cm, Oil, Pleinair
An hour color study near using the last rays of the day. Quick and loose - so do not visit Böhl-Iggelheim just because you love leaning towers!
Thursday, July 16, 2015
Wednesday, July 15, 2015
Digging in the Dirt
20 cm x 40 cm, Oil, Pleinair near Schifferstadt.
Often I paint next to my car with the radio on. Thought this song title fits quite well.
Tuesday, July 14, 2015
Study of another master piece by Colley Whisson
30 cm x 50 cm, Oil
Learning objective: Handling a large brush (flat, 5 cm wide).
Copyright: Colley Whisson
Monday, July 13, 2015
Study of a master painting by Colley Whisson
30 cm x 22.5 cm, Oil
Done to learn sunlit greens. Copyright: Colley Whisson
Excursion into Green
What surprised me was the left column, which appears fairly green, not brownish. It doesn't come out quite as clear in this photo than in the original chart. So at lower saturations my color judgement "that's green" stretches much further towards the warm colors than I thought.
Even the indian yellow in the left column still appears slightly greenish, although I used a warmer gray to decrease saturation compared to the first color chart.
To find a color observed in a landscape it is usually not necessary to know which exact mix of paints is used. In fact, most of the observed colors, especially the grays, can be mixed from a large number of tube paint combinations. Matching a color is much of a try and error game using the paints one has on the palette... Lighter or darker, more saturated or less, warmer or colder.
However, this game can go wrong when some of the observed colors are not within the mixable range of the paints on the palette. And I think this is exactly what happened to me in some of my paintings with fairly light greens. I often did not have a warm yellow on my palette and I tried to mix those warm greens from cad red and cad yellow, which did not give suffiently high saturation and looks chalky in relation to other colors matched more accurately.
> So is all you are trying to say that one needs a warm yellow on the palette?
Yes :-)
Sunday, July 12, 2015
Hallo Berlin
30 cm x 30 cm, Oil, Pleinair
"Good color observation today but questionable whether you really needed to drive 20 kilometers for this"
Mind your own business and come up with a title for it!
"Hallo Berlin"
Haha, don't be silly. That has nothing to do with Berlin. So?
"Hallo Berlin"
Forget that. Serious now.
"Hallo Berlin"
SHUT UP!!!
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Brain?
Saturday, July 11, 2015
Friday, July 10, 2015
Thursday, July 9, 2015
Wednesday, July 8, 2015
Brief Update
40 cm x 30 cm, Oil
You do not know Richard Robinson!?
Okay, a brief update:
Claude Monet died 1926, Pablo Picasso in 1973.
Richard Robinson (*1975) is a New Zealand painter.
A scene of the slabstick movie Naked Gun comes into my mind: famous singer Enrico Palazzo is shacked and has to watch police officer Frank singing the national anthym on tv, subtitled "Enrico Palazzo". Maybe Richard feels like Enrico seeing this :-D
Tuesday, July 7, 2015
An X of Heidelberg
Almost a third of my pleinair approaches result in failure - complete failure to be specific ;-)
I am not too unhappy with this ratio. Today I didn't manage to follow my original concept with the two towers being the focus of the painting. Also i started working on details too soon. I got confused and found myself working on different things simultaneously. Finally, in a moment of brilliant clarity I made two passionate strokes.
Monday, July 6, 2015
Sunday, July 5, 2015
Thursday, July 2, 2015
Luidpoldhafen 2
30 cm x 40 cm, Oil, Pleinair
My second of the day brings me to about seven hours of painting at over 35 C. I'm born in July, i love it! A problem is the sunblocker though. The sweat carries it into the eyes where it burns quite good.
Wednesday, July 1, 2015
Festplatz Bad Dürkheim
30 cm x 40 cm, Oil, Pleinair
I did this one on streched canvas for a change. Confirmed: It does feel better for me to work on prepared wood...
Sibylle
33 cm x 33 cm, Oil, Pleinair
The wood board I painted on is 40 cm x 40 cm and I covered the edges with tape to obtain a passe-partout-like white canvas around the painting area.
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