The lost ones (102 x 51 cm. Oil on canvas)

The third one for Taiwan is ready!

The happy one (102 x 51 cm. Oil on canvas)

The second one for Taiwan is ready!

The brave one (102 x 51 cm. Oil on canvas)

At this moment I'm working on 7 paintings at the same time, because of the necessary drying time between the layers of oil paint. This is the first finished one. Hopefully from now on, every few weeks I may add a new one.

Panorama

A maybe 10 years old idea frequently came up last month. I started to doodle on small memo notes.
A few weeks later the pink notes became little colored sketches, taped together to a mini panorama.
Then I moved the furniture to the side of the room and found a way to hang the parts of a sixteentych.
The diameter is 3 meter. Or the length of all the canvasses together is 10 meter.
This is just the first layer of paint. I still have a long way to ... regret, whahaha.

I can't take my eyes off of you

Oil on canvas 80 x 40 cm.
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Afternoon delight

Oil on canvas 80 x 40 cm.
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It started with a kiss

Oil on canvas 20 x 16 inch (76 x 51 cm).
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Another one bites the dust

Oil on canvas 20 x 16 inch (76 x 51 cm).
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Beds are burning

Oil on canvas 80 x 40 cm.
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A TooHot painting

The organisator of the PAL design contest asked me to create a painting as a tribute to this fun event.
The features had to be: a sunny atmosphere, a link to New Zealand or kiwi's and a kind of 'Lubeck-style'.

This is how the painting turned out:

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Volcano land is finished

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The cloud picker I

At least 6 years ago I started to create this painting of a man picking clouds out of the sky. On and off the unfinished painting was sitting against the wall for long periods.
A while ago I read about a portraiture contest and that was the big stick to finally finish the painting.

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Another one finished

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New painting

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A commission

The commission of the client was:
- An industrial building
- A palm tree
- A grey cat reading a book to an hadada bird
- Sunny weather
- A little bit of artistic freedom





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On my easel now

Some of my work is based on natural shapes and forms I encounter in and around my garden.
One of the paintings I am presently working on has a very direct link to a shrub growing in my garden. It's a Cape Gooseberry, a fruit generally only used as a garnish in restaurants. Probably because they are so ingeniously packaged inside their paper like lampoon.
If the berries are left to weather, the lampoon turns into this wonderful delicate gauze allowing a good peek at the berry itself. I am using this visual effect in a slightly different form in the work in progress below.



Here's another landscape I'm working on at the moment.
This one has no obvious link to anything growing in my garden. Although the subject might have to do with the fact that we live in an active volcanic region ;-)

Snowscape progress

A short update on the progress of the painting with the snowy hills. It's not nearly finished yet but the atmosphere and composition of this work are becoming pretty clear now.

More snow

The first few layers of a new work.
After our trip to South Africa last spring, I was inspired to create a painting of a landscape covered in snow. It took me until winter arrived in New Zealand to come up with the right idea. The final bit of inspiration came from a Camellia I recently spotted on my walk into town. The freshly fallen flowers will return in this painting but with a twist....

Araucaria

Last weeks I made some big steps forwards since I started this painting.
I think the direction where this work is going is becoming pretty obvious now ;-) In the next layer I'm going to refine the colors and add some more trees in the distance.
An Araucaria or Norfolk Pine is a very stately evergreen which is commonly found near coastal areas. As a side note: it is also the national tree of Chile.

Refraction

Now the painting with the orange droplets is nearing completion, I can reveal an almost finished detail.
The idea about this work is that the surroundings are primarily defined by the way they appear in the glass shapes. I've put a lot of time into studying the visual properties of transparent objects since they are the main feature of this painting.

The three main visual properties of glass are refraction, reflection and colorization.
If you look through a solid glass ball, objects behind the ball appear upside down, that's called refraction. Furthermore part of the surroundings of the glass ball are reflected on the surface. And all visual light passing through the object is colored.
You can see all three properties in action in this detail.

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