Tuesday, January 29, 2008

So, I'm back ...

since Tuesday last week *uhum*
It was so nice to be back in Cologne. It could have been some more days. We had a lot of fun, and Drachenfrau and her Sweetie made sushi. OK, it was made with kippered salmon, so I couldn't eat the nigiri - quite to salty *sniffs*, but the maki was eatable. But I think that was the reason why I had to eat real sushi with raw tunny today. Delicious ;-)
Oh, and we ate mochis. I love mochis! With black sesame. Yummy.
On monday we went to the Linkin Park concert. It was great. A little drafty, but after some songs it was warm. Only the woman beside Drachenfrau was confusing. She jumped like a rabid monkey. I've never seen such an old woman behaving like a schoolgirl - screaming, out of her mind and such things. Hmmmm.

So, have I forgotten anything? ...

Thursday, January 17, 2008

Cologne

Tomorrow I'll go to Cologne by train. I'm so glad. I've visited my friend two years ago, that's a long time. To long, because that lazy a** (same friend) is never visiting me :-P I'll change it in the future. Hehe.

The bad thing about that journey is, that I'll get up at 7 am :-O That's nothing for sensitive artists.

Saturday, January 12, 2008

one, two, three ...

I've made an "inventory" of my pictures I've painted in 2007, because then I have the feeling I'm doing something useful *ggg*
I've painted 19 pictures. OK, these are the pictures I've finished. The twentieth one I`ve began before China - it's nearly ready, only some days of work to do. It's not that difficult to paint, but some pictures need time. And it's one of it.
And I didn't mention the 2 or 3 ones I've made for a protest campaign or directly for someone. I only wanted to count the "important" pictures, the series and so on.

I hope I can paint in the near future. I'm beginning to feel impatient, I have some ideas, unfinished pictures, I wanna paint! But I have to wait a little bit. To work with turpentine oil and cadmium yellow for example isn't to good for my conjunctivitis *sighs*

:-/

Friday, January 11, 2008

sick

The last days I couldn't paint anything, because I'm sick. But it's not so bad. Now I can read all the books lying on my couch.
And next week I want to go to Cologne. I'll visit Drachenfrau and we'll go to a Linkin Park concert. Well, I want to, but I don't know, if there'll be any train, who brings me in that town. Month after month is strike in the air. I even was in China some weeks, and when I came back, it was all the same here. So I'd my own thoughts about obstinacy and the lack of will to change situations.
That makes me angry. Ph.

So I can say at the moment I have the feeling I manage nothing. Is that to pessimistic?

OK, I'll go and read a little bit.

Tuesday, January 1, 2008

Today ...

I've painted with egg tempera. It's the first layer, before I'll work with oil-paint. I've changed the ingredients of the egg tempera a little bit. First I used only egg and oil in it, but it was so viscous. I wasn't pleased with the result, even the pigments were bright.

Today I've put linseed oil, dammar varnish, some drops of the ethereal oil of clove and water in my shaken egg. Now my arm hurts from shaking ...
It was definitely a good decision to change my ingredients. It was easy to paint and not so erratic. I even could paint a second layer over it without disturbing the first one. That's good! Most of time I'd wait some days - and then the egg tempera is spoiled most of time. And that really smells terrible *coughs*