animal portrait

Painting a penguin head

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Paint a penguin
Some of you have noticed that I did a livestream early this day. I had a lot to do in my normal dayjob and I can’t get it managed to paint something. But today I said to me, that I have to paint a bit. I decided to paint in my Strathmore toned tan sketchbook with my acrylics. Because I love it how the bright colors pop out of the paper. For those of you who want to follow this video, you can find here the outlines that I have transfered to the sketchbook. If you click on the photo» Read more

Water-soluble oil paints, meduim L & medium W

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Hello friends, as you may have noticed on Facebook, Instagram or YouTube, I am experimenting with oil colors and two oil mediums. I have two sorts of oil paints. First are normal oil paints (Norma von Schmincke) and second are water-soluble oil paints (Berlin by Lukas). What bothered me about the oil painting so far was the odor of the thinner. Yes, there are also odorless thinner, but I’m just not sure if there is something escapes but we just do not smell. At first I got the medium W from Schmincke. With this medium you can make normal oil» Read more

Coloring page for my blue-tits video

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Hi friends, I’ve uploaded a new video hochgeladen. This time I show how I paint this sweet blue tit. If you want to paint them, then use my template for it. If you have questions always get out with it. A list of the materials can be found in the description of the video. The original painting is available here.» Read more

Tutorial: Deers in the winter

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I have I thought it is once again time for a small photo tutorial for a painting what I have named “deers in winter”. If you want to own the original painting click here. At first I have searched for a nice reference photo for the deers on Pixabay. This I needed to create easily the outlines. The paper I used is 300 gsm watercolor paper from Hahnenmühle. It’s the rough version. I really love the texture. I primed the paper with two layers of white gesso from Schmincke. You don’t have to do that, but in my case there» Read more

Neues Skizzenbuch

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Hallo zusammen, es ist wieder einmal Zeit für einen Blogeintrag. Falls ihr es noch nicht mitbekommen habt, ich habe endlich mein Skizzenbuch voll. Hier im Video könnt ihr sehen wie ich es für euch durchblättere. Eins ist voll und zwei Neue habe ich angefangen. Das erste ist der direkte Nachfolger von meinem Alten. Es ist ebenfalls ein Canson Hardcover Buch in schwarz. Für alle die es näher interessiert: Canson ONE In dieses werde ich versuchen täglich meine Skizzen einzuzeichnen. Wenn dieses voll ist, wird es keinen Nachfolger von Canson geben. Ich werde danach 100% zu dem Leuchtturm1917 Skizzenbuch wechseln. Das» Read more

Ink fun

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Hi friends,today there are excerpts from my sketchbook again. This fills up more and more. There are now only 1.5 pages left. It took me nearly 2 years to fill it. My original plan was to sketch something every day to fill it in at most one year. With the next sketchbook I should follow this plan better.Let’s start with two live sketches. First, it is a bridge over a lake in the local park and on the other a plant study of a soldier button plant. The latter reminds me of my childhood as soon as I see her.» Read more

Pilze und ne Schnecke

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Tut ihr euch auch immer so schwer mit Überschriften? Am liebsten würde ich alles durchnummerieren, aber dann weiß man ja gar nicht mehr um was es in dem Beitrag geht. Bei meinem Ausflug nach Sachsen sind diese zwei Pilze entstanden. Ich wollte eigentlich eine ganze Seite damit machen, aber ich habe den Faden verloren. So kann mir heute die glorreiche Idee das die restlichen Pilze einfach von dieser Schnecke aufgefressen worden sind. Beide Skizzen habe ich mit den PITT artist pens von Faber-Castell gezeichnet. Bei der Schnecke habe ich zunächst mit Kreuzschraffur gearbeitet bin jedoch mehr zur Schreibschraffur über gegangen» Read more

PITT artist ink pens

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They are finally here, my studio box full of 60 Pitt artist pens from Faber-Castell. It’s the complete set only 4 metalic pens are not in this box. The pens are equipped with a brush tip and filled with water-resistant light-resistant artist’s ink. I have always sketched with these pencils as you know, only I had a few colors that pushed me to the limit. Now I have the wide selection. And I already did the first test with them in the ICE yesterday at 300 km/h. My favorite motive of the ladybugs had to serve it. Of course, you» Read more

Eagle head

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On such a beautiful Sunday I like to push the office work in front of me and lie with Sherlock Holmes in the ears on the garden furniture and swing some of my Pitt artist pens Faber-Castell. This time, a bald eagle had to serve. Due to limited color choices, the beak and eye color are not quite accurate, but I did my best.» Read more