Finally I did it. This picture was a lot of work, even if it may not look so. There are lots and lots of layers of soft grey washes done here. It may not reach the hundred-mark, but I am sure there are about 60-80 layers. For those who are interested in, I managed to remind my self of taking some work in progress pictures... so here they are: Here you can see... almost nothing. But a thing you can notice is how fine chinese rice paper is. It really is nearly about transparent

Since I decided to do art more seriously and sooner or later  for a living, we now did some structural changes in our home. Thanks to my girlfriend, I now have a own room as painting- and working-room ! What great luck !  The room is about 3,50 meters wide and 5 meters long. But one thing I love the most is the hight of about 2,50 meters ! Enough space over the head for creative input :) Have a look: Finally enough space, for even hang and store my work in progress paintings

After a while, not being able to paint, I decided to finish this pice : Like most pictures I do this time, there was no sketch for this one... Unfortunately, I did no earlier picture of this painting. I just forget about that, while I am painting :(   Have to think about next time… I did a rough and wet in wet wash, for getting some texture and than try to see the ready painting in this… After being so far, I found the yellow a little bit too light, and the moon to less in co

I started now, making such small “Notans”, finding them to be a good help in planning a picture. Even if the later painting is with colors, the tone-values have a very important rule, in how the picture impact on the viewers eyes. You can have the most beautifully colors, but the will not work, if you use no different values, and on the other hand, with a good composition of dark and lighter values, it must not be necessary to use too much colors, for the image to bound the v

As a turn of faith, I am currently located in Ecuador, next to the capital Quito. I am not completely happy with it, but will return to Germany in December, so it´s what you would call an interesting experience.  Because of the situation, my workspace is much smaller, than it used to be, but have a look on your own: In these day´s I use only japanese Watercolors, called “Shin-Gansai”. I prefer the one´s from the Holbein Corp.  They have excellent shining and brightness and ar

Hello everybody, since I´ve started my Deviant-Art-Profile , I am now getting forward with my Blog. Here, you will see inside information from my art, workspace, thoughts and ideas, as well as tutorials and in-work-progresses. Of course you are welcome to ask me questions , just write me a mail, or to post comments. In this day´s a homepage, where you will find my work and expositions for buy, is in progress. You´ll get the info when it is online, here. Of course I do request