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Tree landscape – improvisation
This landscape painting is the result of a spontaneous experiment with a rather wild mixture of various media on paper. Autumn becomes already visible here and there in nature, greens seem to get...
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Spring landscape – painting with linocut colours
Buy this painting as postcard on Zazzle Recently I found the water soluble linocut colours by Schmincke in the local art supply store. I could not resist to buy a basic set of...
View ArticleGeorge Rowlett painting at the abyss of abstraction – plein air video
George Rowlett is one of my favorite plein air painters. His Gallery has put up two videos showing the artist at work painting on the Outer Hebrides and East Kent earlier in March this year. In an...
View ArticlePlein Air painting – Andre Krigar, Berlin
Andre Krigar is a painter in Berlin. This video is one of the better ones on plein air painting.
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Plein air oil pastel study , small pieces of blue sky
Little huts in vineyard, print for sale on Redbubble On a mostly grey November day small pieces of blue sky and a few sun rays can make a big difference. The owners of small vineyards and fruit tree...
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Provence landscape with houses – oil pastel painting
I painted this larger format (50X70 cm) landscape oil pastel from a photograph taken in Provence. I liked the blue sky and the strong contrast between light and shadow that is so typical for the South...
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Plein air oil pastel landscape painting
At the end of the year 2012 I did this plein air study of a neighbour village named Zaisersweiher. The format is mid size ca. 15″X25″ , a bit unusual for me as I prefer small studies for oil pastels....
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Landscape sketches in oil pastels
Here are some more pages from my oil pastel sketchbook that gets slowly filled. The first and the last are not completely finished yet. On the long Easter weekend I started a another small oil pastel...
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Spring meadows – oil pastel study on location
Finally , after long last, spring seems to become real, the sun is shining and temperatures climb to an acceptable level. Even small spots of blue sky can be seen and if the weather forecast is true...
View ArticlePainting skies plein air with oil pastels
Painting the skies in a plein air piece is one of my favorites. With oil pastels one can capture the fleeting impressions of moving clouds and changing light. This is a little exercise to demonstrate...
View ArticleThe secret of nature – Franz Gertsch exhibition Baden-Baden
I could visit the Museum Frieder Burda,Baden-Baden to see a show by swiss artist Franz Gertsch, realist painter. I learned about Franz Gertsch through a small Benedikt Taschen publication on...
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