A&B series: 10. Back from the Future

15 cm x 20 cm, Oil

A&B series: 9. Paintknived Red

15 cm x 20 cm, Oil

A&B series: 8. Drei unten, drei oben

25 cm x 30 cm, Oil

A&B Series: 7. Sandwich

30 cm x 25 cm, Oil

Street Composition 7

25 cm x 30 cm, Oil

Street Composition 6

30 cm x 25 cm, Oil

BASF Study 1

30 cm x 30 cm, Oil

Home improvement store

Quick study using various materials (rollers, sponges, rubbers...) from the home improvement store, no brushes.

A&B Series: 6. Red Dreamer

25 cm x 30 cm, Oil

A&B Series: 5. Green Apple with Glass

30 cm x 25 cm, Oil

Never Seen New York

60 cm x 60 cm, Oil

Well, actually I have seen New York but only from a plane when I had a 2 hour stop at Newark Airport. I was on the way to a conference in San Jose, California .. In Newark I discovered that my plane wants to go to San Jose, Costa Rica. I decided not to go on a holiday, but flew right back to Zurich.
No, this is not even the story for which I was thrown out of science and became a painter....

A&B Series: 4. Sex on the Beach

25 cm x 30 cm, Oil

A&B Series: 3. Apple bites Bread

25 cm x 30 cm, Oil





Quick three value and color studies...

A&B Series: 2. Loving a Criminal

25 cm x 30 cm, Oil

I spent much of my weekend staring at bread. You?

A&B Series: 1. Divisor and Moduli

25 cm x 30 cm, Oil


I received advice from the grand master. He said I should work on limited series to improve specific aspects of my painting and learn to expore a subject in more depth. So this is the start of my first series, limited to 20 studies/paintings or less. 

FAQs
Who is the grand master?
Secret. To get a clue:
Virtualartacademy.com

What does A&B stand for?
Top secret ;-)

BorDome in Speyer

60 cm x 60 cm, Oil

Boredome in Speyer ... in progress still

Thought by now I would be finished with it. Architecture can be very nasty when drawing is inaccurate.

Boredome in Speyer ... in progress

60 cm x 60 cm, Oil

Head Shape Study

Posted this on facebook yesterday....always a great place to meet friends and have a good conversation:

"I am going to have to unfriend you Thomas if you continue to send me your low quality portraits of dead stars i do not want to look out. They disgust me"

Thanks for your honesty! For this portrait course i am supposed to paint over 30 heads in this simplified way. Probably only few true friends will be left afterwards. Fine, let's do it!

Guided Tour

30 cm x 25 cm, Oil

Virtual Art Academy - Portraiture Course 1

I have enrolled the Virtual Art Academy and work myself through the Portraiture Sections. A key aspect is to get an understanding of the planes of the head and in there is plenty of material and assignments to learn that.

Some of my first approaches...