von Antje | 25. Aug. 2017 | Privatbesitz/NFS
When I took up painting in 2005, I was into landscape in a big way. I had studied American landscape painting as part of my BA and I had immersed myself in self-directed study of the Flemish masters. Landscape painting for me was and to an extent still is the queen of...
von Antje | 22. Aug. 2017 | Privatbesitz/NFS
I’ve been away over the weekend, and even though I came came home with further painting work to add to my (already long) list of work, I felt that tonight I just needed to paint something for my heart’s delight. I chose this couple because I just adored...
von Antje | 14. Aug. 2017 | Privatbesitz/NFS
My series of self portraits continues. This one I did with hard drawing chalk (by Conté) on tinted paper. Sadly, putting fixative on it has plunged all the values down a notch or two. I need to remember this for the next time I think ‚I better spray another coat...
von Antje | 9. Aug. 2017 | Skizzen/Sketches
Recently at a chamber music festival: We were sitting quite far away from the stage, but not too far so that I couldn’t do a few pencil drawings of the musicians. This was almost two weeks ago and I had forgotten about these sketches until today. When I pulled...
von Antje | 4. Aug. 2017 | Privatbesitz/NFS
Drawing really is the foundation of realistic painting. The longer I’m in this, the more I realise how true this actually is. And portrait drawing is probably the queen of all drawing. This is why I was inspired (by an article in The Artist magazine) to do a...
