Fresh off the easel! A little oil painting for a change. I consider this a practice piece whose main purpose is to re-acquaint myself with the medium. This is because oil is a difficult medium for me these days. I
I’ve been meaning to write a more extensive technical post for quite some time, but there’s just so much going on at the moment that I am glad if I get to go sketching at all, let alone write at
The caption for this sketch could also be ‚the other watertower‘, for that’s what it is: the watertower on the grounds of the psychiatric hospital here in Luneburg. The smaller buildings are part of the bathhouse complex. During the Second
Yesterday was a public holiday in Germany. I went to meet a friend in the morning and on my way back I was drawn into the forest by the fantastic play of light and shadow on everything. The road went
So, as you probably know I paint in both oils and watercolours (and gouache), and I have done a whole lot more plein air painting in watercolours than in oils. Because I want to get better at oil painting I
I posted the initial gouache study I did for this one a few days ago. I didn’t realise it back then but the composition didn’t actually have a good focal point. It took me another little study, this time in
The frosty morning painting I had thought I would work on today seemed frightening all of a sudden, so I tried something else: a frosty sunset (it’s winter time after all).
These pollard willows were unusually tiny. I hope you agree: they are very wee. But the branches were very orange and just beautiful! So I couldn’t resist even though it’s always a risk to sketch something that looks unusual –
This week, I happend to travel deep into the Berlin hinterland. I was shown (by a very friendly research participant – this was a work trip) to this little wooden chapel. It is tiny, measuring barely 10 x 15 m
I participated in a design workshop last evening where I learned, among other things, how I can add interest to my paintings. Looking at this morning’s plein air effort of bleak pastures, I feel that I took the suggestion to
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