von Antje | 20. Jun. 2017 | Privatbesitz/NFS
Fresh off the easel! A little oil painting for a change. I consider this a practice piece whose main purpose is to re-acquaint myself with the medium. This is because oil is a difficult medium for me these days. I made it a wee bit easier on myself by choosing a) to...
von Antje | 26. Mai. 2017 | Skizzen/Sketches
Yesterday was a public holiday in Germany. I went to meet a friend in the morning and on my way back I was drawn into the forest by the fantastic play of light and shadow on everything. The road went uphill and then down into the forest. I stopped half-way up and...
von Antje | 17. Mai. 2017 | Skizzen/Sketches
Today, I started my day with a little exercise in composition and tonal values. I found the exercise on Tom Hoffman’s GREAT website. Tom Hoffman often puts up value exercises, i.e. ways in which you can learn to create depth in a painting. I have learned a lot...
von Antje | 8. Mai. 2017 | Reflektion
The first thing I will maintain to say about this day is that it was cold. Yes, it was. The cold was biting my hands as I was painting, I remember that distinctly and painfully. But it was the only day it wasn’t raining and on which, not owning the right kind of...
von Antje | 21. Apr. 2017 | Technik
I sometimes touch up older oil paintings of mine. This one of a little forest stream near where I live required some rectification because the reflections of the tree trunks in the water were offset substantially. Looked really off to me. I improved that,...
