I am wishing you all a very Happy New Year. May it be blessed with health, joy, peace, luck, enough money, success in your career and all what you wish.

I want also to say "Thank you"  for your support in 2009.

There is a new figurative painting to show

I already have my first painting of a young child sitting at a river completed in 2010. It is painted on Aquabord in watercolor, size is 11x14".

This little girl with her pink dress and pink shoes sits at a river and she got wet feet.

For our Christmas exchange with some artists friends on Artcolony I painted our black cat "Timmi". The reference photo of Timmi was done some days before we lost him. It was the first time that I painted him. This painting went to Kay in USA and she told me that she loves the painting very much. So my surprise for her was perfect.

The painting is around 9x12 and painted in watercolor on Reeves Watercolor Board.

I also finished finally my figurative painting of "Ines". It is also watercolor, painted on Fabriano Watercolor paper, size is: 12x24".

If you are searching for some special art please keep in mind that I do take commissions. Since all other commissions for Christmas are completed I am having free time to take new commissions, if this is for a Rose or Flower painting, a portrait or a pet portrait or whatever you want. Please contact me without any obligations using my contact form here.

I believe I haven't post this small cat painting yet. I did it some weeks ago of my daughter's beloved cat. It is a watercolor painting in ACEO size (2,5 x 3,5 inch) on 140 Lb coldpressed paper.

The challenge was to not use any masking fluid or to use any other tools to save the whites. I simply painted around the white.

Currently I am working on another blue Hydrangea painting. Size is 12"x16" on 140 Lb coldpressed paper.

The blues and reds are created with Alizarin Crimson, Brillant Purple, Winsor blue (red shade) and Winsor blue (green shade).

I am not really sure at this moment what to do with the background.  Will post again soon.

I finally finished this figurative painting. I have spent so much time on it that I really need some distance to it. I am not sure at this time if I am pleased or not - but this are always the doubts when I finish something.

Watercolor, 20x28 inch on 140 Lb hotpressed paper

Rose Clair Renaissance IV - 12"x16" (30x40 cm)
painted on 140 Lb hotpressed stretched watercolor canvas

In my previous post I posted some Steps of my newest Rose Painting. And I couldn't resist and wanted to finish it as I also wanted to see how it develops.

When I started the Rose painting I only wanted to add a few leaves there but then I decided to paint more and also some buds.

Here are a few step-by-step-photos. Click on the images to enlarge them.

I used the same colours as I mentioned in my previous post.

The apricot colour was achieved with at first doing a deep layer of Indian Yellow. I then added some Translucent orange and then I used a mix of Translucent Orange and Permanent Rose.

The leaves were created with Aureolin, Indian Yellow, Phthalo Blue, Alizarin Crimson, Phthalo Green and Translucent Orange. My favorite green tube is empty,  so I needed to mix the green by myself.

I am still working on my large figurative painting - I hope it will be finished in the next days. But I really needed a break from this and so I did some Rose paintings. The Red and Yellow Rose are small ones, 6x6 inch. The Orange Rose is in the size 6x16 inch. All three are done in watercolor and painted on stretched watercolor canvas.

I hope you like them.

My E-book "How to paint realistic flowers in watercolor?" is finally in german language available. It has needed really long time, but now it is there.

I am currently working on a large new figurative painting. There are so many things in this painting which are absolutely a challenge for me, so I cannot wait to go on and to see how it develops. In the meantime I have painted this small pink Rose in watercolor, size is 6"x6".

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Mein E-book "Wie male ich realistische Blumen in Aquarell" ist endlich in deutsch erhältlich. Es hat auch lange genug gedauert. Für mehr Infos über das Buch klicken Sie bitte hier.

Zur Zeit arbeite ich an einem großen figurativen Bild. Es sind so viele Dinge in diesem Bild, die eine riesige Herausforderung für mich bedeuten und ich kann es nicht erwarten, weiterzumalen, nur um zu sehen, wie es sich entwickelt. In der Zwischenzeit habe ich diese kleine rosa Rose in Aquarell gemalt, Größe: 15x15 cm.

Pink Peony, 12"x16"
painted on stretched canvas
Price: $350 plus shipping insured
If you are interested in purchase this piece, plase visit my shop here

Today I finished my Peony Painting. Size is 12"x16" and it is painted on stretched watercolor canvas.

At first I wanted to do a lightly grey green background, but the paper buckled a bit and I got some blossoms, which I didn't want to have there, so I decided to go dark with the background. The dark background was created with Winsor green (blue shade), Burnt Sienna, Ivory Black and Alizarin Crimson in several layers.

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Heute habe ich meine rosa Pfingstrose endlich fertig gemalt. Die Größe ist 30x40 cm und sie ist auf gespannter Aquarellleinwand gemalt.

Zuerst wollte ich einen hellen Hintergrund in einem grau-grün machen. Aber das Papier wellte sich ein bisschen an verschiedenen Stellen und ich hatte Schwierigkeiten, die Farbe gleichmäßig aufzutragen und es entstanden einige Ränder, die ich so nicht haben wollte. Daher entschied ich mich, einen dunklen Hintergrund zu machen. Für diesen benutzte ich folgende Farben:  Winsor green (blue shade), Burnt Sienna, Ivory Black and Alizarin Crimson und malte in mehreren Schichten.

This is another small painting, this time some Violet Pansies. I found these pansies in the past week while a visit at a castle here in our near.

They are painted in watercolor and I really like the strong colour.

Size is 6"x6", painted on 140 Lb coldpressed paper.

This is another small painting. I really had fun to work on this background, to create a lot of depth and a lot of leaves.

Size is 5"x7", watercolor on 140 Lb coldpressed paper

Some weeks ago I saw some Hydrangeas in a flower shop and couldn't resist to buy some. And I needed to paint them. This is a small 6"x6" watercolor painting on 140 Lb watercolor paper.