Woman with umbrella

In this painting I tried to do something with a new media for me. Since most of the time I was experimenting with transparent watercolor, this time I used opaque watercolor also called Guache. It is very different to transparent watercolor and does not behave the expected way. It is much more difficult to get nice transitions in colour and it dries very fast. On the other hand, you can overpaint since it is very opaque. I think I have to do some more paintings to get used to this kind of media.

New York Series

Just before Easter I had been in Antalya Turkey for some short holiday and to get some rest from my recent exhibition in the Garching Library. It was a good time and I found a lot of time to concentrate on some paintings I realy wanted to do on the New York pictures. It was a lot of work and I needed 3 days for each one of the New York paintings. But it also was a lot of fun.