Zorn-Test: The reduced palette (English only)

Zorn-Test: The reduced palette (English only)

This week, I am experimenting with Anders Zorn’s reduced palette. As an oil painter this would have me using four tubes of paint: titanium white, ivory black, alizarin crimson or cadmium red and yellow ochre. As a watercolourist, I am down to just three: ivory...
In Wittenberg

In Wittenberg

We went and visited the birthplace of the Reformation, Wittenberg, last week. As per usual when out and about with family, I didn’t expect to get much sketching, let alone painting done, and so I was super glad when the opportunity arose for me to sketch a bit...
Last call | Letzte Runde

Last call | Letzte Runde

Last night was the last session in a class I ran at the local college for further education. We met up in a brew pub here in Luneburg in order to try our hand at some indoor pub sketching. My students did wonderful sketches of one another for warming up and then...
Around town | In der Umgebung

Around town | In der Umgebung

I don’t do a lot of watercolour sketching these days; it’s either sketching in ink or watercolour painting with the easel. It took a while for me to notice how I had more or less stopped doing what I used to do so often – funny how things just slip...