Christmas Special
I recently taught a workshop which I called ‚Christmas Special‘. First we painted a still life with candle and then a snowy landscape. I composed the still life myself using my still life box. I’m not sure where exactly I
Loose vs. line | Locker vs. nicht-locker
Here are the most recent sketches. They represent two approaches: the first one works entirely without a line drawing underneath whereas the second one represents the opposite approach, the good old line-and-wash method. I had a leisurely moment on a
Gammut mask and a painting (English only)
Hello dears! I hope you are all doing well. Do you remember my recent series on limited palettes? I used a different one each week in October last year (you can see the results and reflections about them here, here and
New palette | Neue Palette
The fourth and for now last combination of colours I want to paint with for one week is this one: Burnt Umber (W&N), Magenta and Ultramarine Blue (both Schmincke). As you can see, there is no yellow in this palette,
Why I paint with a limited palette | Warum ich mich auf drei Farben beschränke
This is the fourth week in a row of me painting with a limited palette. I will introduce the current palette tomorrow. Why am I doing this at all though? I have already hinted at how my thinking about the
Painting with a limited palette | Mit eingeschränkter Palette malen
I have two weeks of painting with a reduced palette under my belt – what can I say about this approach so far? In the first week I used the Zorn palette adapted to watercolour: yellow ochre, alizarin crimson and
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
Ink sketches with watercolour | Tuscheskizzen mit Aquarellfarben
The other day, I let myself by inspired by a German sketcher who fills his waterbrushes with ink and then makes wonderfully monochromatic drawings. Totally the copy-cat that I am, I filled one of mine with W&N non-waterproof ink and
Neutral tones development | Entwicklung hin zu neutralen Tönen
The way I came to watercolour painting, I learned that a smaller palette is more, that highly and purely pigmented paints are best and that you can mix all the colours you need yourself. I learned about neutral tones which
Light in Luneburg III | Licht in Lüneburg III
Righty-ho, this is the third attempt at getting the lights and darks right in this scene and an overall impression that I am happy with. I like this one best of all of them. I have tightened the composition a
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