Aquarellmalen in der Natur und Zuhause
Im letzten Beitrag ging es um Farben, ganz speziell um Rottöne. Ich habe vor kurzem nämlich einen neuen Rotton in meine Palette aufgenommen – und mittlerweile auch schon eine ganz leckeres rotlastiges Bild damit gemalt, hach, das war so toll!
So, last week was my still life week. This means I made one little still life watercolour sketch every day. Doing this usually took me about an hour and was a means to get watercolour sketching again, meaning: I wanted
Continuing with my still lives, I notice a few trends. I tend to want to go for the potted plants first because they seem a lot more interesting than most other subjects around the house even though the sheer plenitude
And now for somethiing completely different… a little honey bee! It is drawn in ink (by Sennelier) and painted with gouache on a sheet of paper which I have torn out of Flow magazine. I love that magazine for its
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
Two days ago incessant heavy rain prevented any painting outing whatsoever. I had reserved time in the day especially for that and was therefore quite disappointed. However, one of the blogs I read happened to feature a post on flower
On Saturday, a few of us got together for a little sketchcrawl. Keen to try our hands at a few lavishly decorated villas, we met in a rather pretty residential area of Luneburg. Due to the inclement weather, however, we
Despite being alone at home (as my sweetheart tours the world for work and fame – not really) I had such a lovely and colourful weekend! And I have friends to thank for that for the most part. Saturday was
Getting ready to work on a commissioned painting for me means lots of pencil sketches to figure our the composition and the values and some little colour studies to clarify that part to myself, too. I mostly have reference photos,
This painting was a present for a family friend. Kerstin is always there to help when help is needed and she is a wise and very kind person. I did something different for this painting: I used cobalt blue instead
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