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The Pines of Porquerolles
Inspired by my new book from Marc Folly and of several holidays on the wonderful island Porquerolles.
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Es treibt der Wind im Winterwalde
Die Flockenheerde wie ein Hirt,
Und manche Tanne ahnt, wie balde
Sie fromm und lichterheilig wird;
Und lauscht hinaus.
Den weissen Wegen
Streckt sie die Zweige hin – bereit,
Und wehrt dem Wind und wächst entgegen
Der einen Nacht der Herrlichkeit.
Rainer Maria Rilke, Schmargendorf, im Dezember 1897.
inspired again by Jean Haines Online Art School
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WOW!! I've never thought that painting garlic is such a gorgeous thing. Inspired by Jean Haines Online Art School
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My plan was to paint a series with some autumnal still lives in a small format and I've started with Ampersand's gessobord. Hmm, it's a miracle with this one, because I've no idea if I've put a watercolor ground on it or not. And it looks like not, but the watercolors stayed from the first wash perfectly on it. Okay, you must be very careful with corrections, otherwise it's three steps forward and two backwards, but even salt on the wet pigments works great. So I took a gessobord for No. 2 too, but it doesn't work. The colors beaded off and absolutely didn't want to stick to the gessobord. I had to put some watercolor ground on it. I'll show you the result in my next post.
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In the Coral Reef
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photo credit Sara Landreth
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I've decided to let myself be infected by SKTCHY ARTSCHOOL watercolor #30faces30days. Day 2 thanks for the wonderful tutorial Jason Rhodes
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Not much time for painting, but some small autumn doodles must be done and finally, I've painted a bright sunflower detail.
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This time I've painted my beloved Frida in a very loose style and using some sea salt for creating nice background effects.
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Sometimes you feel that's time for returning to your comfort zone and so I've created some loose background washes and look what appears out of them.
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Huge thanks to Hella Kiss for this inspiring image.
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Painting a kingfisher was my very first contact with the life-changing work of Jean Haines www.watercolourinspiration.com and it's many years ago. I was deeply impressed by the looseness of her style and the gorgeous modern and vibrant colors she used and I am until today. Learning from her and discover more and more my own way in art is such an amazing experience that it helps to live with the complicated social situation during Covid-19 time.
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Planned as a background wash for a sheep painting today I looked at it and a deer appears.
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"Simple Things" monthly flowers exercise at Jean Haines's Online Art School www.watercolorinspiration.com
I've always loved painting snowdrops and to reduce the motive on only the important shapes is a very relaxing and wonderful little funny moment. I must do some more and will add it to this post.
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