von Antje | 5. Jul. 2017 | Allgemein, Reflektion, Technik
Ich habe neulich ein ganz tolles Youtube-Video gesehen, dessen wichtigste Inhalte ich unbedingt mit euch teilen muss. Der indische Aquarellmaler Nitin Singh spricht darin über die fünf Gründe, warum die Aquarellmalerei Leute in die Verzweiflung treiben kann und Viele...
von Antje | 13. Jun. 2017 | Skizzen/Sketches, Technik
Getting ready to work on a commissioned painting for me means lots of pencil sketches to figure our the composition and the values and some little colour studies to clarify that part to myself, too. I mostly have reference photos, but I try not to rely on these too...
von Antje | 17. Mai. 2017 | Skizzen/Sketches
Today, I started my day with a little exercise in composition and tonal values. I found the exercise on Tom Hoffman’s GREAT website. Tom Hoffman often puts up value exercises, i.e. ways in which you can learn to create depth in a painting. I have learned a lot...
von Antje | 6. Dez. 2016 | Allgemein, Technik
This is a little moonscape that I am working on. I have taken photos from in between so you can see how the painting came together (or not). The stage it is at right now was to be the final stage, but I now think that it really is lacking umph. And my moon...
von Antje | 3. Dez. 2016 | Allgemein, Technik
Today was spent in my little at-home studio trying to get a painting ready to submit for a show. The frosty morning painting I had thought I would work on seemed frightening all of a sudden, so I tried something else: a frosty sunset (it’s winter time after...
