Watercolor – Two quick paintings
•July 1, 2009 • Leave a CommentLinocut – Fairy (Testprint)
•June 7, 2009 • Leave a CommentPresently, we have a lot of fairies in our house. Eva Lotte is a big fan of fairy stories and is planning to have a fairy birthday party in July. Therefore I picked up this theme and did a linocut of a fairy today. Here is a first testprint of it. It is not ready yet as it will get some more elements like trees of clouds or flowers in the final version.
Iris Watercolor – Thanks for the Comments !
•June 1, 2009 • 1 CommentThank you for your comments on the Iris watercolor from last week. As promised, I show you some steps of how I did the painting.
I used a rather large format single sheet watercolor paper for this painting (50cm x 60cm, Hahnemühle Torchon). This I fixed with fixing tape on a wooden plate (3mm thick).
Then I started to draw the main structure of the Blossom and the leaves on this sheet using a pencil. Prior to that I had done a smaller sketch to find out about the position of the flower on the sheet.
Then, I used indian ink (in a bottle, not water soluble) and a thick strong brush to sketch the main structures on the paper. Then I painted a very weak background over the ink drawing.
After this, I did the Blossom of the Flower in Ultramarine and Red. While still wet, I started to paint the stem and leaves in yellow. Where it met the blue, it became a greenish color.
After this I continued painting leaves in Yellow. Then gave them a wash in blue (ultramarine and in the shadows indigo) and ochre and green tones.
Finally, I added some blue and brown areas and lines into the background to give it more structure.
Watercolor – Peonies
•May 31, 2009 • 2 CommentsToday, the peonies in our garden started to bloom. So, I was motivated to paint these beautiful flowers. I did it in a very fast way. First wet in wet and after that in a more detailled manner. For this painting I used a rough pencil drawing as a basis. Then I did the yellow background and after that a rough ink drawing. Finally, I did the colors in water color and gouache.
Poll – Making of a Watercolor ?
•May 30, 2009 • 3 CommentsWatercolor – Flowers
•May 22, 2009 • Leave a CommentWatercolor – Allendorf
•May 21, 2009 • 1 CommentWatercolors – Bicycle Tour
•May 17, 2009 • Leave a CommentToday I went on a bicycle tour with Eva Lotte. For that purpose we have bought a so called Tandemstange from Trail Gator. With this, it is possible to connect a childrens bicycle with the parents bicycle an trailer it behind. I was a little bit sceptical in the beginning, but it works very well. It wasn’t even very expensive at amazon. On our todays tour where we went from Allendorf to Staufenberg we made a painting break on the hill above Treis. Eva Lotte did a nice small watercolor called Buntland (Colorland) and I did a small landscape.
















