To the light

This painting was inspired by an Indian painter I recently found in the web. His name is Ejoumale and I never had heared of him before. But If you go to his website there are  beautiful decent paintings. I like his style very much and tried to do one of his paintings in my own way. I think the impression of light is working quite well. The painting was done on Arches 300gr rough paper in the size of 48x36cm.

Thin paper paintings

Again I tried to paint on the thin 100 gr Ingres paper. Last time I really had trouble to get the paper off the drawing board. I nearly damaged everything and could remove the paper only by making it humid again. This time i tried to use a more thinner adhesive, but again it was difficult to tear off the paper. I think painting on that thin paper is not for me, I will use again only at least 300gr watercolor paper. The first painting is of a castle in Unterschleißheim near Munich. It is called Lustheim. The second painting is again pretty abstract. Just throwing paint on the paper and wetting it carefully. The Moorlauge was injected with a pipette and let it move. If the paper was dry, I used a stencil, to remove the paint. Both painting were done on paper of size 48x32cm.

Still life and abstract painting

These two paintings were generated during a sunday workshop with Lydia Leydolf. The speciality of Lydia is to paint on very thin paper. The paper, an 100gr Ingres half sheet, is glued to a board with a thinned adhesive. After a short drying time one can work very wet with watercolor on this surface. If the painting is done and dried over night, it should realy be dry, you can tear off the paper from the board by loosening the edges. The painting then is glued to a white sheet of paper board for support. The still life is watercolor (mainly ultra marine) and burned sienna ink, which was poured into the very wet color. The second painting is just pouring color and „moorlauge“ on very wet paper. After everything was dry, the roofs and housed were washed out.
Both paintings are of size 48x32cm.

Hope

If you paint in watercolor the paper plays an important role. Usually I paint on Arches or Hahnemühle rough paper and got pretty used to the behaviour of the color on that paper. This time I tried to do a painting of the Greifswald harbour on a very smooth paper. I used Fabriano Artistico satine and immediately got problems with the behaviour of the color. You can not move the color on the paper like on a Arches, no dry brush strokes and so on. But nevertheless it was an interesting experience to get out of what you are used to. The picture was taken in Greifswald at the museum harbour with a boat called „Hoffnung“ (hope).  The size of the paper is 56x38cm.

Australian Town

Last week I got a DVD of watercolor artist Ross Patterson. APV films in England distributes all kind of painting instructions on DVD‘s from artists mainly from the UK and Australia. Ross Patterson is one of those well known watercolor artist from Australia and he shows his way to bring the hot australian landscape to paper. One of those demonstrations is of a small old town in Victoria. I took a screenshot of the town and from that I did my own painting. This is the result of my interpretation. It was done on Arches 300gr rough paper in the size of 48x36cm.

Greifswald houses

If you walk in Greifswald along the river to the Wieck harbour you see on the left side of the river this nice row of houses. They are prette colorful and nearly look like norwegian houses with their small fronts and steep roofs. In front of the houses there is a jetty for sailing boats. I think these boxes belong to the houses in the back. On this day only very few boats were parked here and I further reduced the number to get a good focal area in the picture. This painting was done with acrylic color on a pretty dark underpainting. I used watercolor paper 300gr with the size of 56x42cm.

Watersports in Greifswald

On an evening walk from Greifswald to Wieck along the Ryck river, I met this group of people. The boat looked very large for me and needed a lot of people to be moved by rowing. Here they are trying to move the boat up the river banks and get it to the boat house. I especially liked the grouping of the people and the mood after the activity. The painting was done on Arches 300gr rough paper in the size of 48x36cm.