Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Currently ...

I´m working on two pictures. The bigger one is chinaesk, the small one a portrait.
I don´t have a clue which way the portrait will lead me. The woman in the picture looks a bit scary with a ... hmmm ... naked face. Don´t know how to explain it. I always hate portraits at this stage. Only some layers, ridiculous colours, not enough light and shadow and starring fishy eyes. Disgusting. It´s the last phase before I´ll compose the face in the way it should be. The composing I adore very much. Love it, really. It´s getting the right colour so the still to bright red will fade to a nicer shade.
And the scary thing ... well, that was my intention I´ll explain when it´s ready. But I´m not sure at the moment ... I can´t stand it.

My chinaesk-picture I like ... even at this stage. There´s no face, that´s the reason I guess. Though it´s a bit mean. Nothing for vegetarians, but I can´t show considerations for wispy sentiments. Don´t like, don´t look.

Sunday, April 20, 2008

new picture


Submerged
egg tempera and oil on canvas (linen)
100 x 70 cm

It´s from my reflection-series. It was not my intention to paint a new one in this series in the next weeks or months, because there are more important projects at the moment.
Of course it´s not that worse till I need more pictures there, too. In this reflection-series some kind of subseries has arised. Maybe I have an obsession with watermen? I`ve liked that kind of humanoid being since I was a child. And after a funny dream some months ago I had to paint something like that ... again and again.
And during working my hands and face were green. Normally I´m not that bad when I´m working. I don´t need work clothes, but this time, well, I wasn´t able to put the oil paint only on the picture.

The german word for submerged has some other meanings, too. Disappear for example.