During the painting seminar with Gerhard Hillmayr, we went to the Walchensee wone day. The Walchensee is a lake nearby the Lake Kochel. It is known by many paintings by Lovis Corinth, who had a house at this lake. We did a painting of some colorful trees standing at its shores.
Watercolor Painters Ring
•October 28, 2009 • Leave a CommentI started a Watercolor community at Ringsurf which is called Watercolor Painters Ring. If you are operating a watercolor site and are interested in joining this community, please follow the link below and add your site. You are then able to use one of the ring banners and hopefully this generates some traffic to your site.
Watercolor – Allendorf Quarry
•October 23, 2009 • Leave a CommentLast weekend, we went on a walk around Allendorf (Lumda) and admired the colorful autumn trees. At a place where we could see the big quarry nearby, I did a sketch which I transferred into this watercolor painting later.
Watercolor – Kottmüller Allee (Alley)
•October 22, 2009 • Leave a CommentThis is a famous place in Murnau, Bavaria called Kottmüller Allee (Alley). It has been painted by Gabriele Münter who lived there with Wassily Kandinsky during the beginning of the 20th century. We painted the place during the seminar with Gerhard Hillmayr in the beginning of october 2009. The leaves were already getting yellow and brown…
Watercolor – Loisach Moos Huts
•October 17, 2009 • Leave a CommentOne afternoon during the seminar, we painted at the Loisach Moos, a swampy area near Kochel am See in Bavaria. There are many huts in that area which we tried to capture in an abstract way.
And here is a reference photo taken of the scenery.
Watercolor – Murnauer Moos
•October 14, 2009 • Leave a CommentLast week, we painted one day at the Murnauer Moos in Bavaria. This is a famous motive, because Gabriele Muenter (member of the Blauer Reiter) has also painted at that place in the last century. Here are two watercolors in a reduced style which I did on that day. Below is a photo of the scenery.
Watercolor – River Loisach
•October 12, 2009 • Leave a CommentI’m back from my painting seminar with Mr. Hillmayr, which took place last week. It was a very inspiring an interesting week and a lot of fun too. We were a group of 12 watercolor painters who did a plein air session every morning and one every afternoon. Fortunately, the weather was fine and autumn colors were present everywhere. So, I will be showing some of the paintings we did last week in the following posts…
Here is a first example, a painting of the river Loisach near Kochel am See in Bavaria.
An this photo shows, how the original scenery looked like…
















