von Antje | 12. Okt.. 2017 | Farbe/ Colours, Zu verkaufen/Available
Rain is usually not a weather condition suited much to outdoor painting, at least not if, like me, you don’t own a painting umbrella which can be attached to the easel. But drizzle can work sometimes. Looking for an interesting subject to paint yesterday, I...
von Antje | 11. Okt.. 2017 | Farbe/ Colours, Skizzen/Sketches
Yesterday was the first time in this cold season that I had to paint in the safety of my car. I was a bit pressed for time, and so I settled on a nature subject which I thought might work: a tree next to a field with dead branches and some twigs zigzagging across the...
von Antje | 10. Okt.. 2017 | Farbe/ Colours, Skizzen/Sketches
I was so enchanted with the limited colour choice I worked with last week that I have decided to stick with this principle of limiting myself for a while. This week I have locked my palette in with the following three pigments: yellow ochre, burnt sienna, cobalt blue....
von Antje | 25. Juli. 2017 | Farbe/ Colours, Skizzen/Sketches
The way I came to watercolour painting, I learned that a smaller palette is more, that highly and purely pigmented paints are best and that you can mix all the colours you need yourself. I learned about neutral tones which are mixex using three primaries, and I was...
von Antje | 30. Jan.. 2017 | Farbe/ Colours, Skizzen/Sketches, Technik
This row of freight cars is parked on an unused railway track near my parents‘ home. I love walking along the tracks there. Because this was part of the steelworks railway system, the tracks lead to all kinds of industrial places which I am not allowed to go....
von Antje | 19. Okt.. 2016 | Allgemein, Farbe/ Colours, Technik
In yesterday’s post I already hinted at my attempts to mix greys, and here are a few more examples of it (and some orange mixes, too). This grey-mix topic was a crucial one for me in my own development. An eye-opener, if you will, which is why I got my teeth in...
