von Antje | 7. Juli. 2017 | Skizzen/Sketches, Zu verkaufen/Available
Up North the sea comes in a very special kind of disguise: every twelve hours or so it goes places. Sandbanks and lots of mud are left behind. Now this is not as awful as it might sound. Sea birds and crabs gather on the fertile mud and do their funny dances. Seals...
von Antje | 6. Juli. 2017 | Skizzen/Sketches
Up in the North of West Germany the land is really flat and the skies are very wide. I am saying ‚West Germany‘ because it’s not like that in the East; there, you have lots of rolling hills. But not so where we live and even less so where we went...
von Antje | 24. Mai. 2017 | Skizzen/Sketches
Yesterday’s sketch of the port left me a bit dissatisfied. The boats were my centre of interest, and I felt like they didn’t come out all that well. Thinking about how that might be improved I thought I might try this: make the boats the darkest spot with...
von Antje | 23. Mai. 2017 | Skizzen/Sketches
Yesterday’s post was the inspiration to today’s sketch. These flatboat replicas are opposite the old crane (which is ‚hiding‘ behind the trees on the right edge of the sketch). The sketch was pretty difficult; as you can see, there is a whole...
von Antje | 9. Mai. 2017 | Reflektion, Skizzen/Sketches
It rained all day and I painted what I could from the shelter of my little car. Needless to say, my spirits weren’t exactly soaring. I explored many potential painting venues near my parents‘ home and eventually called it quits about two hours earlier than...
