Figure Study

20 cm x 40 cm, Oil

Color Study May 13

25 cm x 25 cm, Oil

Color Study May 12

25 cm x 25 cm, Oil

Artrage Figure Color Studies

I played with Artrage and Photoshop on my ipad to explore color combinations for figure painting.
Photo resource: Croquis Cafe

Climbing Wall

25 cm x 25 cm, Oil, Pleinair

Monday's Power

25 cm x 30 cm, Oil, Pleinair

Outdoor Works May 8

20 cm x 15 cm (2), 25 cm x 30 cm, 30 cm x 40 cm, Oil

Painting Day with Richard Schmid in Speyer!

"Never leave anything on your canvas that does not look good"

Richard Schmid in Alla Prima Painting

30 cm x 50 cm, Oil, 3 hours

25 cm x 30 cm, Oil, 2 hours

Possibly not exactly what Schmid meant ;) He speaks of little errors that occur and the temptation to fix them at a later stage, after the more important stuff is painted. However, these errors will influence all later work to the worse and there is nothing more important to fix an error when spotted.   I found nothing but errors on my canvases.... 

In that sense... My third painting day with Schmid this week!

May 6th 2016 - Pleinair Studies

Study 1, 15 cm x 20 cm, Oil

Study 2, 15 cm x 20 cm, Oil

Study 3, 15 cm x 20 cm, Oil

Served Dry

40 cm x 20 cm, Oil

Lachen

30 cm x 40 cm, Oil, Pleinair near Lachen-Speyerdorf

TGIF

30 cm x 50 cm, Oil

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