I just realised that I have not yet shared this little painting with you. This is my beloved St. Nic in Luneburg. A friend commissioned „something special with several objects combined“ and concentrating on St. Nic. My first reaction was
My series of self portraits continues. This one I did with hard drawing chalk (by Conté) on tinted paper. Sadly, putting fixative on it has plunged all the values down a notch or two. I need to remember this for
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
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
Before the sun disappeared again behind thick thundery clouds I rushed out to capture myself something interesting near-by. Like this peaceful farmyard. For some strange reason I produced the pencil sketch afterwards. Should I ever feel like I want to
I received a commission for a tricky piece of work this week, which has set me back for a day or two. So I’m not going to post the third painting in the series which I shared with you yesterday
Ich habe neulich ein ganz tolles Youtube-Video gesehen, dessen wichtigste Inhalte ich unbedingt mit euch teilen muss. Der indische Aquarellmaler Nitin Singh spricht darin über die fünf Gründe, warum die Aquarellmalerei Leute in die Verzweiflung treiben kann und Viele schlussendlich
My cat sitting last week was lots and lots of fun! Three little ones and one mother cat were my charge. I’m not really a cat person but the wee guys were ever so cute! They were five weeks old
As strange as this may sound, there is a garden in our church at the moment. It is right around the altar and it is very beautiful. Almost paradisical! I sketched it from behind so that the main space of
This wee guy is down in the crypt at my church. I discovered him more or less by accident just recently and I was totally amazed: an angel with blue wings, and I didn’t even know about his existence! (It’s
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