von Antje | 11. Aug. 2017 | Privatbesitz/NFS
There is a lovely modern jazz song by the title of ‚Hang on, little tomato‘ – my husband wants to play this with his band sometime soon. Even before he has a chance to do that though, I am borrowing the title for this wee painting of tomatoes from...
von Antje | 9. Aug. 2017 | Skizzen/Sketches
Recently at a chamber music festival: We were sitting quite far away from the stage, but not too far so that I couldn’t do a few pencil drawings of the musicians. This was almost two weeks ago and I had forgotten about these sketches until today. When I pulled...
von Antje | 8. Aug. 2017 | Zu verkaufen/Available
Like I said yesterday, Saturday’s paint-out was a bit flawed insofar as the weather forced us indoors, at least temporarily. And there, indoors, lovely flowers in large vases were waiting to get painted! I went for the gladiolas, and I went for the pink...
von Antje | 7. Aug. 2017 | Allgemein
On the weekend, a couple of members of the German Watercolour Society who live in this region met-up for a little paint-out. Our splendid and super-fantastic hostess was Rita Dahlem in Wietzendorf which is an idyllic wee hamlet not far from where I live. Alas, the...
von Antje | 4. Aug. 2017 | Privatbesitz/NFS
Drawing really is the foundation of realistic painting. The longer I’m in this, the more I realise how true this actually is. And portrait drawing is probably the queen of all drawing. This is why I was inspired (by an article in The Artist magazine) to do a...