Blue hour | Blaue Stunde

Blue hour | Blaue Stunde

Early this year, right after coming back from the US, I was yearning to paint en plein air and in oil again but my new easel simply didn’t arrive at my home. This painting is from that time and it renders my in-betweenness from back then rather well: I sketched...
On the top | Oben

On the top | Oben

This one I also painted on the day I was searching for a view with some distant hills. There aren’t very many in my area, so a far-away treeline had to do. I was standing on a tiny little hill when I painted this though! And that was not a good thing, for it was...
By the river Elbe | An der Elbe

By the river Elbe | An der Elbe

The weather report lied told me that Monday morning was going to be very sunny, so I set out to do some early morning plein-air painting by the river Elbe near Geesthacht. And the sun really was out – for about an hour! Arrggh. By the time it disappeared I was...
Sunset | Sonnenuntergang

Sunset | Sonnenuntergang

This is an attempt at a sunset. The sky had only just cleared for the first time that day and I thought ’now or never‘ and set out. Time was of the essence, and the only spot that I could reach quickly that evening was right next to a busy country road....