Impedimenta

Impedimenta

Reposted from Robert and Sara Genn’s twice-weekly newsletter Painter’s Keys Dear Artist, Music pervades the studio, the headset-phone rings from time to time, the brush proceeds. Here in the solitude of the easel-station there’s time to consider. I’m...
Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas to you all! Thank you for reading my blog and for commenting. It has been a genuine pleasure for me to communicate and learn in this way this year. I look forward to more exchanges to come. Happy holidays! * To you is born this day in the city of David...
People

People

The melancholic guitar player Die melancholische Gitarristin The disturbed and disturbing business man Der verstörte und verstörende Geschäftsmann
Traveling || Unterwegs

Traveling || Unterwegs

  I had to be away at the beginning of this month, my friends, far away from home. And I missed my lovely home so much! I worked, worked, worked because that’s what I went away for. Then, on the weekend in between I met my old friend Verena in Jena (this...
The nightingale and the rose

The nightingale and the rose

by Oscar Wilde ‚She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses,‘ cried the young Student; ‚but in all my garden there is no red rose.‘ From her nest in the holm-oak tree the Nightingale heard him, and she looked out through...
Solving the riddle/ Auflösung

Solving the riddle/ Auflösung

Remember the tiny test sketches I did of possible paintings in order to see if they’d work out in a larger format? I said back then that one of them really doesn’t rock my boat but I didn’t say which one it was. I was waiting for you to guess. (You...