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This one is inspired by a lovely photo of the beautiful Loew sisters, @emmaloew and @hannaloeww.
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One monthly highlight is the painting challenge hosted by @eli_notario. This month, the expressive reference photo was taken by @javiersanchezmonge
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“Joy is never tomorrow, it's always now.”
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
One monthly highlight is the painting challenge hosted by @eli_notario. This month, the inspiring reference photo was taken by Nicolas Kantor @nicolaskantor for @teenvogue Model @mindofkye Kyemah McEntyre
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"March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection."
— Khalil Gibran
And so I do, more practise with likeness in my portrait paintings. My goal isn't to paint like a photograph; no, I love looseness in everything I paint, but to recognize the person at first glance.
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Koh Samui Memories
Sketching is the breath of art: it is the most refreshing of all the more impulsive forms of creative self-expression and, as such, it should be as free, and happy, as a song in the bath.
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A question of backgrounding is my actual theme. And this portrait comes to my mind when I think about how important a background is. I reworked it today, and I like how it turned out and hope you do too.
my contribution for Virtual Studio
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One monthly highlight is the painting challenge hosted by @eli_notario. This month, the expressive reference photo was taken by @spencer_travel_photographer
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One monthly highlight is the painting challenge hosted by @eli_notario. This month, the expressive reference photo was taken by @ingridkoedood_photography
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A question of backgrounding - this portrait comes to my mind when I think about how important a background is. So I reworked it today, and I like how it turned out, and I hope you do too.
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It's my contribution to Eli Notario's December Challenge. The inspiration image is taken from Pinterest.
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“Tomorrow, children, there will be something…”
Well, Santa Claus isn't coming tomorrow, but in many regions of the world, St. Nicholas is coming hereafter on the 6th. December 🎅🎄⭐️🧸❤️ Reason enough for a further Christmas painting.🎅🎄⭐️🧸❤️
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“Christmas is like candy; it slowly melts in your mouth, sweetening every taste bud, making you wish it could last forever.”
– Richelle E. Goodrich
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The never-finished portrait…
Girl with Chicken
„Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.“
- Winston S. Churchill
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During late summer, I’ve had a great photo shoot with this lovely country girl. Now I’m starting to work on some portrait ideas from it. The first sketches come out fine, but the decision to create a portrait on gesso board was a mistake. I think my respect for the underground was too high, and the more I drew, the more I realized that I can’t do this in the way I wanted.
So I washed up the failed work and applied a new gesso ground…
Let's hope for a better start to the next version 😏
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Das nie vollendete Porträt…
„Erfolg ist, von Misserfolg zu Misserfolg zu stolpern, ohne die Begeisterung zu verlieren.“ – Winston S. Churchill
Im Spätsommer hatte ich ein tolles Fotoshooting mit diesem netten Mädchen vom Land. Jetzt fange ich an, daraus ein paar Porträtideen zu entwickeln. Die ersten Skizzen sind ganz gut geworden, aber die Entscheidung, ein Porträt auf Gesso-Platte zu malen, war ein Fehler. Ich glaube, ich hatte zu viel Respekt vor dem doch etwas teureren Untergrund, und je mehr ich zeichnete, desto mehr merkte ich, dass ich das nicht so umsetzen kann, wie ich es mir vorgestellt hatte.
Also habe ich die misslungene Arbeit abgewaschen und einen neuen Gesso-Grund aufgetragen… Hoffentlich klappt der nächste Versuch besser 😏
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Schon seit langem hatte ich den Plan, für mein Gedicht "Die Nebelfee" (veröffentlicht sowohl in der "Kinder-Gedichte-Welt", als auch in dem Buch -> Vorschau - mit gleichnamigem Titel) eine Illustration zu malen, und in diesem Herbst hatte ich endlich eine Idee, wie sie aussehen könnte.
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"October, here’s to you. Here’s to the heady aroma of the frost-kissed apples, the winey smell of ripened grapes, the wild-as-the-wind smell of hickory nuts, and the nostalgic whiff of that first wood smoke."
– Ken Weber
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Becoming Jane is a 2007 romantic drama starring Anne Hathaway as the pre-fame author Jane Austen and James McAvoy as her love interest, Tom Lefroy. The film, directed by Julian Jarrold, offers an imagined, semi-biographical story about their passionate, albeit tumultuous, romance and the potential inspiration for her famous novels.
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See you at the Beach!
Inspired by Jess Zoerb’s cute image at @museumbysktchy
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