Courage

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Courage

SIZE: 20 cm x 20 cm - 5,5" x 5,5"

PAINTING GROUND: AMPERSAND AQUABORD 3 mm

COLORS: QOR extra fine watercolors,

2024 © ISABELLA KRAMER

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Just hanging around

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Just hanging around

SIZE: 15,7 in. x 15,7 in. - 40 x 40 cm
PAPER: GUARDI ARTISTICO - TORCHON 300 g/m²

COLORS: SCHMINCKE SUPER GRANULATION WATERCOLORS 

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I've never painted a bat, but aren't they cute animals? For years, we've had one, or maybe two, in our garden, and we feel so lucky to admire their gorgeous hunting rounds around our garden lamp. 

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Singer Sargent's Lantern Girls - my version

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Singer Sargent's Lantern Girls

my version

SIZE:  15 in. x 22 in. - 38 x 56 cm (half sheet)

PAPER: SAUNDERS WATERFORD COLD PRESSED NOT 425 g/m²
COLORS: DANIEL SMITH extra fine watercolors,

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Do you know John Singer Sargent RA’s oil painting “Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose”, 1885 - 1886. Surely you do, it’s one of this Royal Academician’s most famous works. And this will be my version of it. I love the motive and learned a lot while working on it. 

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Stanley Spencer - my version

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Stanley Spencer - my version

SIZE: 12 in. x 18 in. - 31 x 41 cm
PAPER: YASUTOMO STONEPAPER 150 g/m²

COLORS: DANIEL SMITH WATERCOLORS 

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Many thanks Sarah McIntyre on X Virtual Studio - @StudioTeaBreak for her inspiring challenge. This is my version of Self Portrait, Stanley Spencer 1914 - (Tate Gallery)

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Old Mr. Toad

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Old Mr. Toad

SIZE: 15 in. x 22 in. - 38 x 28 cm 

PAPER: BOCKINGFORD RKP FatPad ROUGH 425 g/m²

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Ich habe unsere Gartenkröte wieder entdeckt und festgestellt, dass ich zwar schon einige Frösche gemalt habe, aber noch nie eine Kröte. An diesem ersten noch herrlich warmen Herbsttag ist es einfach wunderbar noch draußen arbeiten zu können.

Ich habe ohne jede Vorzeichnung mit dem Auge begonnen und dann langsam die Kröte und ihre Umgebung drumherum aufgebaut.

I rediscovered our garden toad and realized that although I have painted a few frogs, I have never painted a toad. On this first, still lovely warm autumn day, it is simply wonderful to work outside.

I started with the eye without any preliminary drawing and then slowly built up the toad and its surroundings around it.

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Time for Paper Lanterns

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Time for Paper Lanterns

SIZE: 14,8 cm x 42 cm
PAPER: ARCHES GRAIN FINE 300g/m² 

COLOURS: Daniel Smith and Mijello Watercolors 

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Autumn is near and the time for paper lanterns walking is here. 

To outwit the darkness that creeps across the country earlier and earlier in the autumn, children make lanterns with colorful luminous paper pictures or hollow out pumpkin and sugar beet heads and parade through the streets with them. Parading through the dimly dark or foggy streets with a brightly shining moon, a shining sun, a happy animal face or a monster-faced lantern is fun.

In some areas, the 'lantern parade' begins as early as September, and reaches its peak in the first days of November and on St. Martin's Day. Everywhere you see bright strings of lights parade through the streets in the evening. It looks beautiful. It helps us forget the darkness a little, and we look forward to the pre-Christmas period with its mysteries and celebrations.

from about ca. 1851 

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Autumn is near and the time for paper lanterns walking i.s here. 

Autumn is near and the time for paper lanterns walking is here. 

Woodland Dreams

Woodland Dreams

SIZE: 14,8 cm x 42 cm
PAPER: ARCHES GRAIN FINE 300g/m² 

COLOURS: Daniel Smith and Mijello Watercolors 

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Every year again I must paint some autumnal motives like mushrooms, paper lanterns, falling leaves etc. and I hope you enjoy my passion as much as I do. 

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les pins de Porquerolles - 2

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les pins de Porquerolles - 2 

SIZE: 11,8 in. x 7,8 in. - 30x 20 cm

PAPER: HAHNEMUEHLE WATERCOLOR BOOK  MATT 250g/m²
COLORS: DANIEL SMITH extra fine watercolors

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