"She who walks alone" This piece is of special meaning to me. It was my first painting ever sold. The following is an absolute real story - I hope it can inspire some of you: I was stuck in a time of fiancial need, and urgently needed about 400€ to move foreward with an investment that could potentially open my way into a small buisness. Having no other possibility left, I decided to trust the only thing I knew I was good at - painting. So I sat down and meditated for a long

"Lilith" - Digital Painting with Procreate Lilith - The demonized Light-Bringer Dedicated to Lilith, who always had some spell of fascination over me, empowering us to choose our own destiny and forge reality with the might of the "word". Symbolism Horns Represent power and the ability to form reality. See also the horn-crown of old babylonian gods, e.g. Ishtar. Ouroborus Creates itself, or reality creating itself. Means that who we are is creating the experience that creates

I recently bought an artbook of one of the artist I really admire - Eyvind Earl. Even though my personal style in drawing and painting is very different, and of course, not as developed in skill jet, I really love the paintings of Eyvind Earl. There are a lot of things I can learn from them, even though its not my particular style. For example when it comes to the clarity and beauty of his shapes and compositions. I also love the more graphical style approach, that jet is sti

Nikawa is the japanese word for the gelatine solution that is used in certain old chinese and japanese painting styles, namely nihonga and gong bi style. The gelatine solution is used as a binder for pigments, as well as for preparation ( sizing ) of the paper, to reduce its absorbancy. In this video I used 20 g of good quality gelatine, and 200 ml of water. You can see the process in the video below...

Work in progress... Latest experiments with my own costumized textured blurring brushes for procreate...

Digital sketch for a future painting...

"Ascending the Dreamgate" - 22cm x 32cm - Watercolor on Bamboo-Paper

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

30cm x 22cm - Watercolor on Bamboo-Paper Entering the Grove Let the flowers bloom on my way, where we meet, in silence.

35cm x 42cm - Watercolor on Bamboo-Paper I started this as a trie to break my typical ( bluish, darker tones ) color habit. I really like autum and I´am sad that I am currently in Ecuador, where there is no autum, no silence, no melancholic forrest, no mystic fog between trees, no silent dropping water from branches.... Here is just Sun and Summer...the whole year. It´s really boring for a person like me. I´am happy to return to germany next year, and to dive again into the w