2020_05 May

Starting May with a classic.
Learning from Turner, “San Giorgio Maggiore, early morning”
The light area in the sky on the right is totally wrong, it should be greenish, but I am afraid to make it worse if I try to correct it.
Flowers in Park Charlottenburg.
The support is a sheet of this wood I bought last week at Modulor. It bent terribly when wet but I menaged somehow. Not sure how it will be possible to frame it though. SOLD 27.08.2023 Mexico Platz

Last week I befriended two Canadian geeses in the park to the point one was eating out of my hand. They fell asleep a foot away from me. I want to make a set of three dedicated to them.

This has been a struggle to say the least, this is the best I can do, just too many shades and angles… And the whitish borders of the feathers… A nightmare. She probably looks more like an Oktober Fest Kellerin than a Canadian goose, but I am going to leave it at this for this try. The trio hangs in my reading spot in Monti
Flower sketch testing my newly arrived acrylic inks, love them!
Doodles Tuesday evening too tired for anything else
I like the colors but the shape is more that of a ceiling fan than of a flower 😕
And more doodling
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And one more.
(PS: These heavy rough sheets of paper I bought from Jackson’s online? Need to check their name and never buy them again. They get damaged by looking at them. Not what I was expecting.
I looked them up: they are eco paper made in India. The texture is actually cool, but I have no idea how to get the best out of them, I am sure with some special techniques they are fantastic, but which one? I need to find out also because they are so cheap, it is a pity not to know how to use them! They really are super absorbent and the pigment spreads immediately like if dropped into absorbent paper. To get a clear cut edge you must use the brush almost dry. I need to write to Jacksons)
Doodle in pink and ink – destroyed and made book marks
Doodle with swirls
Small 8 x 16 cm doodle card, golden powder, acrylic ink and watercolor.
This one a like very much, there is something so soothing in brown, rich pink and gold together….I have to do more with the combination. Used it as birthday card for a birthday of somebody.
Small 16 x 16 cm doodle card
House of Jazz, done at 3 am to let my hair down after 3 hours working of the first washes of a more challenging one…
18 x 22 cm, Acrylic ink, watercolor and golden powder
Sold for I think 10 Euro at Fehrbelliner LOL!
Doodle at 2 pm on Saturday 9.5 after another 3 hours of washes and washing out washes of my main week-end painting project and I am not even in love with the one I am doing now, I just think it is good exercize
17 cm x 17 cm, watercolor, acrylic ink and golden powder
Done, this was my weekend project…. 38 cm x 31 cm on 300 gr. Not great but I learned a lot by doing it. How to work with misbehaving masking fluid for one…. SOLD 27.08.2023 at Mexico Platz EUR 60 with no passepartout.
White flowers Version 1 Sold June 2023
White flowers Version 2
Spring sheep.
Gesso, acrylic ink, watercolor on 450 gr. ecopaper.
Learning from Ann Blockley. I want to try and translate the idea to the sheeps in the field of park Charlottenburg. Sold June 2023
Yellow flowers in grass – bought 3 packs of various sizes leftover boards from Modulor.
Tiergarten Rhododendron, May 2020.
Watercolor and gouache. 28 cm x 21 cm.
Tiergarten rhododendrons, watercolor and gouache, Version 2.
28 cm x 51 cm
Old couple walking in park Charlottenburg.
Graphite und watercolor.
Apples and bottles.
Learning from a painter I saw online but can not remember her name.
Watercolor, ink and gouache on Indian eco paper.
56 x 40 cm.
Tiergarten rhododendrons 20.05.2020
Rhododendron
Rhododendron
Little card, phantasy
Large card, watercolor and gold paint
Little card
Bookmark
A doodle after watching Ann Blockley’s DVD “Experimental watercolors”.