Wednesday, August 20, 2008

working in another genre

Last year in China I´ve worked in the studios of the painters with chinese ink. That was something new for me. First I was a little bit ... clumsy, but in the end it was a lot of fun to paint with it. Unfortunately the pictures are in China in the studios.
One of the paintes gave me 5 kg of finest 10 years old rice paper from Hongkong. It´s strong and has a really good structure, a little bit rough and you can even paint aggressiv without destroying it ;-)
Today I´ve decided to try it again. I´ve only had black ink, so I´ve took my old watercolors (I normally hate watercolors) to give it more life (I´ve painted with red, of course, love that color). It was a lot of fun again, even I did miss the beautiful ink colors ...
To take a photo was a pain in the a..

O.T. (without title)
chinese ink and watercolors on chinese rice paper
ca. 70 x 135 cm