7 May 2013 If the first pencilling is my least favourite part, I find mixing the colours
After a week dragging myself through the lessons, I slowly started to hate it.
In the silent, hot weather with a gusty wind what caused a kind of yellow/grey hazy view ‘ghost town’ was a perfect characterization. A true paradise for photographers and location scouts.
As we drive into the field of these special trees, I understand why I had to come here … they are true real-live ‘Lubeck Trees’!
When we visited Namibia I finally saw the social weavers in real.
Because I’m a night owl I usually miss a big slice of daylight. That is not handy for a painter, so I’m always alert on interesting lamps.
Today I bought a dentist lamp at an auction.
… I moved the furniture to the side of the room and found a way to hang the parts of a ‘sixteentych’.
The diameter is 3 meter. Or the length of all the canvasses together is 10 meter.
Today I received something in the mail I wanted to own by myself for ages. I always found it a kind of ‘tool’ not intended for me. I stole a few of them …
Joining the Art Revolution in Taipei was a real milestone in my career! The decision to be at the fair in real person was even better. It was all one great learning course!
When we left the exhibition hall we bumped onto an artist who was busy making sculptures with a chainsaw. One sculpture took him a few days to create and they are about six feet tall.
Today I received his part in my letterbox and I was over the moon. Beside a beautiful bright tempera work, he also added a book brimmed full of other small paintings of weird animals in marvellous colors.
Sometimes people write such beautiful things about me. I’m fallen silent by these nice words.
There was quite a controversy about one of the entrants because his work was a portrait of a murderer.
The PAL design contest got a funny afterbirth 😀
The organisator of the contest asked me to create a painting in commission, as a tribute to this event.
After finishing and signing, oil paint needs to dry thoroughly for at least 6 months
Normally; first there is my painting … and then Mother Earth imitates me with a pale shadow of my created treasures. That’s how it happens all the time!
I always have difficulties to re-connect with the painting after it have been in rest for weeks. Every time it seems I need hours or days before I know how to work further on it, like an interrupted conversation. Most of the times my first attempts are quite pointless too.