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.