Sun set yesterday evening :-)
Monday, February 29, 2016
Troll hill
Allover northern Europe we find these hills made of flat stones...
Winter Sun - Hiking Forest Hahnheide/Trittau Germany - 02/28/2016
We had a lovely 10km winter hiking tour at the Forest Hahnheide about 30 minutes northeast of Hamburg.
Wednesday, February 24, 2016
Children's Art: Painting with palette knives
Yesterday afternoon at the children's painting group:
This were the only tools for painting
This were the only tools for painting
Tuesday, February 23, 2016
Tree at the Shore
Tree at the Shore - 2016 - Airbrush-color on white paper (75% sugar cane fibre, 25% cotton, 280g/qm) - 24x 32 cm - $ 100 available on Saatchi Online
Sunday, February 21, 2016
Children's Art: Art, Children find in Nature
At our attempt to do Nature Art project (even in winter ;-)) Friedrich yesterday came up with a piece of art made by nature he found in our garden :-)
Children's Art: Nature Art
For a longer time I planed to do Nature Art projects with the children.
Naturally one would start with it in spring or summer, when you are out in Nature anyway. But I felt that even winter should provide opportunities to find ways to do art in nature.
First we had to figure out, what nature art would mean to us.
Previously I had different ideas of how to carry out art within nature and always felt bad about interfering too much with nature and it's intern stability. Therefore it definitely has to be very gentle.
For the children they had to understand, that the art they do in and with nature will not last very long, since we don't want to deteriorate nature.
Our first tries are therefore far from being finished art but more about the process and approach to the topic of nature art and nature art with children....
The first we tried was using a tray at which snow fell as a surface. Sunflower seeds were taken to make in this case a spiral pattern in the snow.
We talked about what to expect: Birds will come and eat our "art" up, new snow will cover it....what actually happened was, that the snow melted the other day and most of the sunflower seeds were swimming in the water ;-)
Naturally one would start with it in spring or summer, when you are out in Nature anyway. But I felt that even winter should provide opportunities to find ways to do art in nature.
First we had to figure out, what nature art would mean to us.
Previously I had different ideas of how to carry out art within nature and always felt bad about interfering too much with nature and it's intern stability. Therefore it definitely has to be very gentle.
For the children they had to understand, that the art they do in and with nature will not last very long, since we don't want to deteriorate nature.
Our first tries are therefore far from being finished art but more about the process and approach to the topic of nature art and nature art with children....
The first we tried was using a tray at which snow fell as a surface. Sunflower seeds were taken to make in this case a spiral pattern in the snow.
We talked about what to expect: Birds will come and eat our "art" up, new snow will cover it....what actually happened was, that the snow melted the other day and most of the sunflower seeds were swimming in the water ;-)
Spotted Woodpecker
This morning this nice guy had his breakfast at our garden ;-)
Thursday, February 18, 2016
Wednesday, February 17, 2016
Work on paper
Children's Art: Only one stroke for each of you....
Yesterday's meeting of the children's painting group was very intense.
We worked in two rounds.
For the first one I asked each child to choose on color. They got really big brushes from me. I put one large piece of white mix media paper in the middle of the table. Each child should make one stroke with it's brush. I asked them not to follow any known forms just make one movement with the brush; one child after the other.
Here are the results of this cooperative painting.
We worked in two rounds.
For the first one I asked each child to choose on color. They got really big brushes from me. I put one large piece of white mix media paper in the middle of the table. Each child should make one stroke with it's brush. I asked them not to follow any known forms just make one movement with the brush; one child after the other.
Here are the results of this cooperative painting.
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Sunday, February 14, 2016
Winter Bird
Winter Bird - 2016 - Airbrush-color on paper - 25 x 18 cm - price on request
Birch trees at Dawn
Birch Trees at Dawn - 2016 - Airbrush-color on blue paper - 15.2 x 20 cm - price on request
Blue Bird at Dawn
Blue Bird at Dawn - 2016 - Airbrush-color on blue paper - 20 x 15.2 cm - price on request
Saturday, February 13, 2016
The first ones to appear....
These are the very first spring flowers in our garden this year...
Friday, February 12, 2016
Birch trees
Birch trees - 2016 - Airbrush-color on paper - 17 x 24 cm - price on request
Birds in Winter
Birds in Winter - 2016 - Airbrush-color on paper - 21.5x15.5 cm - price on request
Tuesday, February 9, 2016
Monochrome 2
Trees at the shore - 2016 - Airbrush-color on paper - 21.5x15.5 cm - price on request
Monday, February 8, 2016
Monochrome
White poplar - 2016 - Airbrush-color on paper - 21.5x15.5 cm - price on request
Flowers on a rather gray February day
Enjoy some impressions of a wonderful bouquet of flowers our lovely neighbors gave us yesterday together with an very pleasant evening full of talk and laughter :-) Thank you very much again ;-)
Friday, February 5, 2016
Thursday, February 4, 2016
Experimenting with prints: The choice of paper
After I decided for water soluble linolprint-paint by Schmincke (at least for the beginning ;-)), I set up a series using different kind of paper. As expected each paper has it's pros and cons and will be good for different purposes and printing effects.
Actually I feel the second prints (without applying new paint) turned out very nicely sometimes :-)
Actually I feel the second prints (without applying new paint) turned out very nicely sometimes :-)
Natural architecture
The forms and structures of nature are amazing!
Tuesday, February 2, 2016
Sketchbook monthly 16/01
A monthly look into my current sketchbook to see what is going on ;-)
Children's Art: The process of painting
I love to watch. I love to watch how the children are painting, their movements, the moments they stop, the way they wash the brushes and take new paint on it, the moment they decide the picture is done.
The beauty of winter
I love the trees in our street not only in summer, when everything is green and fresh but also in winter when the graphical beauty of the branches shows up.
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