A Visitor at Midnight

I am a bit stuck with my artwork of the NZ Art Show – only 7 weeks to go – and to be honest I start to panic… which in the end is part of my creative process. My work tents to dry once they are hanging on the wall ^_^…

The work usually evolves along a undefined story line, almost like a conceptual narration… that part always comes easy to me. Its not the ‘what do you want to tell’ its the how, which media, on what materials, stroke, lines, fill, background, textures…

Luckily this little girl popped up in my sketchbook at midnight to point me in a possible direction ^_^…

Witching Hour Visitor

Somehow I think she will be around to help me out!

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By the way ‘Besuch zur Geisterstude’ sounds so much nicer. I definitely need a better translation!


Nightshift with Water Colours

Nightshift with Water Colours

I finally managed to get back to some more work on the ‘awoke’ series. I plan a series of water colour paintings. For now I work on getting the colour pallet right (trying out tea and coffee ^_^) and experiment with the ink outlines… It is very different from the acrylics on wood.

Rather than using traditional water colour paper I use 100% rag heavy weight German etching paper. I like the smooth surface and the sheer thickness. I still have this heavyweight acid free recycling paper (like brown paper), I need to test the lightfastness though… and I consider getting some veneer…

Nightshift with Water Colours

I like the techniques, very intuitive, fast and without any hassle. All you need is paper and a small set of colours. There is not much room for mistakes though.

The sketch on the right is actually from January 2009. Its a bit frightening, how few things I actually managed to get done last year…



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