von Antje | 17. Juni. 2017 | Skizzen/Sketches
When I paint outdoors, that is en plein air, then it’s mostly an elaborate version of urban sketching. Not so this week: I actually took an easel with me, real brushes and very good paper! I started off with a thumbnail sketch of my chosen scene, even tried a...
von Antje | 8. Juni. 2017 | Skizzen/Sketches
…were talking in church the other day and the sunlight hit them so beautifully, I had to snatch a photo and paint them afterwards! I love the relaxed poses both of them were striking and I’m pretty happy with how they have come out. I struggled with the...
von Antje | 6. Juni. 2017 | Skizzen/Sketches
I’ve been meaning to write a more extensive technical post for quite some time, but there’s just so much going on at the moment that I am glad if I get to go sketching at all, let alone write at least a few lines about it. Everything else will have to...
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 | 2. Juni. 2017 | Skizzen/Sketches
The caption for this sketch could also be ‚the other watertower‘, for that’s what it is: the watertower on the grounds of the psychiatric hospital here in Luneburg. The smaller buildings are part of the bathhouse complex. During the Second World War,...
