More Zorn trees | Noch mehr Bäume à la Zorn

More Zorn trees | Noch mehr Bäume à la Zorn

Still working with the Zorn palette, still into them trees! It is quite unusual, to be honest, to use so much black in a watercolour painting. But I like it! It serves a good purpose, as does the yellow ochre. It really is a star of a colour! I like it very much. Ich...
Fluffy trees! | Fluffige Bäume!

Fluffy trees! | Fluffige Bäume!

Friends, I have painted trees today which I actually really like! They look so, well, the way I wanted them to look but didn’t dare to hope, if that makes any sense. I am talking about the trees in the background here. For me they are the total stars in this...
Wietzendorf in the rain | Wietzendorf im Regen

Wietzendorf in the rain | Wietzendorf im Regen

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...
Up North | Oben im Norden

Up North | Oben im Norden

Up in the North of West Germany the land is really flat and the skies are very wide. I am saying ‚West Germany‘ because it’s not like that in the East; there, you have lots of rolling hills. But not so where we live and even less so where we went...