Pupated
Oil on stretched canvas (linen)
30 x 25 cm

This little mummy will transform into some kind of butterfly. At the moment it´s helpless, cocooned into itself, can philosophize about life and death and has to wait to become a higher being than it´s former shape. At this stage it´s not for sure that there´ll be a transformation, it´s somewhat uncertain, at least for the mummy. But that something´ll happen is visible from the outside. All that matters is the perspective. Who wants to know, doesn´t always know these things that help to relax a little bit (that´s a shame!). And who doesn´t care, because other stuff is more important does look with virgin eyes and hidden things are visible, even it isn´t significant at the moment.
I did always wonder, if egyptian mummies are in a metamorphosis …

Medusa

Medusa
egg tempera and oil on stretched canvas (linen)
150 x 90 cm

My interpretation of the goddess Medusa. The model is my best friend. Of course she hasn´t a snake´s tail in reality (but who knows for sure) ...
Now I could post a lot of information of Medusa, but I´m not in the right mood at the moment. It´s far to much.

The next thing is an exhibition in Berlin with 99 other artists. I don´t know if I´ll like it, but hey, visitors can watch a lot of picture and it´s interesting to observe other artists. ;-)


download 100
30.05.2009 - 01.06.2009
11:00 - 18:00


Vernissage:
Friday, 29.05.2009; 19:00 - 21:00
with live music and performance

place:
Hetzer GmbH & Co Automobil KG . Hauptsitz Opel Hetzer
Knobelsdorffstrasse 63, 14059 Berlin (Charlottenburg)/Germany

But maybe it´ll be fun if some friends come with me ...

Inuit goddess

Sedna
egg tempera and oil on stretched canvas (linen)
180 x 55 cm

Now it´s done, I´m proud. It was difficult to paint, because the size of the stretched canvas is large. My way to paint ranged between standing on a stool and lying on the floor. But that´s OK. Sedna was a great model and very kind. ;-)

Here a picture of her face (and again the layout is a mess *hmpf*):

Johanna
oil and egg tempera an stretched canvas (linen)
90 x 70 cm

Hmmm, I don´t know why, but I can´t get my postings in the right form anymore. Months ago it was easy to do so, but than something changed and now my writing lies around like someone has thrown it without care. That gets on my nerves, really!

Oh, and that´s the picture that needed so much time. Lot of times I felt the urge to repaint it. But I have this feeling very often, so it´s better to ignore it. As the eyes were finished I liked that picture much better ...

it´s been a while ...

Voodoo for beginners
oil on stretched canvas (linen)
20 x 20 cm

I was really busy the last months. The chinese painters visited Germany, and it´s typical for Chineses, to change the date every minute. ;-)
But a had a free ride to Cologne, so I could visit my best friend Drachenfrau. It was a nice time, lot of fun etc. pp.
But it was a stressful period and I hadn´t time to paint something, even all sketches were ready and a picture still in progress (it isn´t finished yet, because "Voodoo for beginners meandered it´s way to my fully attention).

But back to the picture. It´s part of a new series called "Entpuppt". Means something like "turning out to be". The word Puppe means pupa - but it´s the same word for doll, so it can be used this way, too. Like the end of the life of a doll. Yeah, there is my dislike for dolls again (some days ago I saw one hell of an ugly doll on etsy - uaaaaah). XD But I have to admit, I like my painted dolls much more than real dolls.

So I put "Dolly" and another one in this category. It suits them better than the portraits series, because the portraits are real persons - Dolly is not. And that new plan for painting dolls began with Dolly either, so I think it´s a good decision and it doesn´t look so empty.

I hope I have more time for painting the next weeks.

Yesterday ...

I sold two pictures. The byer viewed all my art, asked about the prices etc. pp. She loved the Merman in the green robe really much, because it´s such a handsome man ... ;-) Maybe one day she´ll buy that one, too.
Then she said: Well, I´ll take that and that. She pointed at a bigger one and ... at my Hieronymus. You can see a part of him on my about-me-picture. I never, ever wanted to sell that one, but yesterday I decided to let it hang and not to take it into my bedroom, where no potential buyer could see it. Maybe it was time for him to go. I´m really sad, but sold it for a really good price, of course (that was no hindrance for the buyer).
Now I have a nice amount of money and my beloved Hieronymus only as postcards and a print *sniff*

I could use some more of these kind of buyers. They know, what they want and are willing to expend the money without asking: Do I get a discount when I buy two pictures?

*takes a last long look at Hieronymus*

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Ich-Universum
oil and egg tempera on stretched canvas (linen)
54 x 35 cm

Some kind of self-centered universe. Almost everyone lives in a comfort zone, where it is cosy, everything well known etc. It´s difficult to leave this zone, because no one knows what to expect. This is like a foreign country with a language you don´t speak. But like someone in this zone sees the things in his own way, so do other people in their self-centered universes as well. It´s an easy way to put other people in some kind of drawers, because "you know everything about him or her, you know what they fancy, what they´re doing, what they´re dreaming". But other people see you the same way. Bad, huh?
So this zone is like a little kingdom with a curtain to shut out the world, but in reality it´s nothing more than a cardbox, that looks a little bit like a puppet theatre.