von Antje | 19. Juni. 2017 | Skizzen/Sketches
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 a wonderful day which I spent in the company of our...
von Antje | 13. Juni. 2017 | Skizzen/Sketches, Technik
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, but I try not to rely on these too...
von Antje | 5. Juni. 2017 | Privatbesitz/NFS
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 of ultramarine which is my normal go-to blue, and it...
von Antje | 15. Mai. 2017 | Skizzen/Sketches
I am so glad that I have been able to give into spur-of-the-moment painting ideas lately! This was one of them. These wild flowers (or weeds, as some might say) seemed so appealing all of a sudden on Saturday morning that I thought, why not. I got my kit, switched on...
von Antje | 20. März. 2017 | Skizzen/Sketches
A while ago I saw a lovely spring-time painting featuring a field of crocuses. Ever since I have been searching for one such field for myself so that I could paint it. Alas, I haven’t found one yet. There doesn’t seem to be a sizeable population of...
