More small paintings
I am so late with posting here on my blog, so I have to show a bunch of new small paintings.
It is a great fun to paint small and to try things out. I am always struggling with the background, should I make him dark or light or busy or simple? The subject always looks so different then.
Here are some more small paintings which I did over the past week.
Red Hollyhock, watercolor, size 4×4 inch
Coneflower, watercolor, 5×7 inch
Lions Rose, watercolor, 4×4 inch
Dahlia, watercolor, 4×4 inch
Gladiola, watercolor, 5×7 inch
Posted by admin on August 17th, 2008 filed in flower: Rose painting, flowers, medium: watercolor
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White Hibiscus
I have worked on another small painting.
My neighbours Hibiscus is full in bloom and I asked for doing some reference photos. This painting is the result, it is painted in watercolor, size is 4″x4″ (10×10 cm).
I am working on more small watercolors at this time, so please come back.
Posted by admin on August 9th, 2008 filed in flowers, medium: watercolor
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Blondie - new addition to my colourful horse series
“Blondie” - I thought this would be the perfect name for this beautiful and blonde horse.
It is my newest addition to my colourful horse painting series and this time it is painted in watercolor on Crescent Cardboard.
The size is: 2,8″x9,4″
Prints of this horse and also of the other colourful horses are available through my Etsy-shop
Posted by admin on July 20th, 2008 filed in medium: watercolor
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At the beach - New watercolor figurative painting
This is my newest watercolor painting of a young girl at the beach.
I have no idea which title I could use for this painting. I still remember when my kids saw the first time the ocean. It is like “Wonders of Nature” and since we do not live at the ocean I still feel the same when we visit the ocean in our vacation time. I am always impressed - deep impressed -.
I have done this painting on Textured Claybord (Aquabord) and size is 11″x14″. I loved to describe the water, the waves, the reflections and the sand. It really made fun to do this painting.
For some reasons I love this Aquabord but there are also times when I hate it and there were many times when I could have thrown this painting away. It is not easy to work in layers on this surface, it is so easy to disturb the underlayers and especially when painting skins that can look awful. I am pleased with the look now and I will not touch the painting again. Each time when I tried to add another layer on the skin I always removed the underlayers and then I had to do the whole area again.
On the other side it was so easy to work with the water and the waves and the sand, because here I LOVED it very much that I could remove the paint and to get the white back. For this the surface was wonderful.
Posted by admin on July 16th, 2008 filed in Textured Claybord (Aquabord), figurativ, medium: watercolor
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Website Update
I am currently working on my website and blog.
It is all now one in one and it will be much easier for me to have my website updated and my visitors have not to switch between website and blog.
I am still working on the gallery page, so I am sorry that there are only a few images for you to see, but I will add more in the next days. But with browsing the Archive posts you will be able to see my recent works.
For all my link-partners: I will add the links to your sites also in the next days.
Posted by admin on July 14th, 2008 filed in Everything Else
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Dog portrait
Since a few weeks our family has a new member. A dog, named “Mandy”.
She is a Mix between a Golden Retriever and an Australian Sheltie, whatsoever this is. She just has the right size for my kids and it seems she feels very comfortable at our house. She enjoys to play in the garden and has already found her place here and in our hearts.
Our cats do accept her too, so life could not be better for her.
Of course I HAD to do a painting of her. Her fur has such a warm glow and it really made fun to paint her.
Oh, it is watercolor and the size is 8″x11″.
Posted by admin on July 10th, 2008 filed in medium: watercolor, pet portrait
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Miniature Painting - Flower girl
I thought I would try a real miniature painting again. This “Flower girl” - painting is painted with watercolors on hotpressed Crescent Cardboard and the size is 2″x3″.
It made fun to work so small. But for some reason I did not like the surface. I think it is still a bit too raugh for a figure painting, the board is not so smooth as I would like to have it. Also it is much easier to lift the painting than on the hotpressed Arches paper. Of course sometimes this is great, but when working on skin it can make you crazy, when the underlayers are so easily lifted.
The first image is inlarged, click on it to see the larger version. The second one is with a german penny, so you can really imagine the size.
Posted by admin on June 30th, 2008 filed in figurativ, medium: watercolor, miniature
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Another small painting … Rose Golden Celebration in watercolor
This rose watercolor painting is another one of my small series. It is the Rose Golden Celebration, one of David Austin’s roses. Size is this time not really 4″x4″, it is around 3,8″ x3,5″. I really have fun doing this small paintings and there will come more, but my next work is a bit larger. I want to do another figurative work and it will be 11″x14″.
Posted by admin on June 4th, 2008 filed in flower: Rose painting, medium: watercolor
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Small Lily painting in watercolor
This is another small watercolor painting, again painted on Crescent Cardboard and size is 4″x4″.
I found this beautiful Lily at an event, which I visited in the past year. It is called “Landpartie” at “Burg Adendorf”, an old castle and not far away from where I live. Please click here for more informations about this Event.
There are many people who come there and do show their stuff. If this is exclusive food, wine, dresses, furnitures and many more. And of course a lot of gardeners with their wonderful flowers, like roses, hydrangeas, poppies and and and.
At this event I did of course photos (we must use any opportunity for that, right?) and I already have painted one rose, which I also have named Landpartie. It is this one.
And I already did paint one of these Lilies in oil (size 16″x24″) some months ago.
It is a fantastic event and I wish you could visit it too.
Posted by admin on June 1st, 2008 filed in flowers, medium: watercolor
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Tulip with Dewdrops
This is another small painting, painted on hotpressed Crescent Cardboard.
Size 4″x4″. I really like to paint on this surface. For the dewdrops I have not saved any whites and I have not add any white, since I only paint with transparent watercolors.
But I was able to lift the colours easily on this surface to get my highlights for the dewdrops and although the highlights are not very strong I think they look very natural.
