Playing With Ink And Color II

September painting for the Virtual Paintout:

Playing With Ink And Color

Applied the inklines first. Then wetted the paper completely and dropped in the colors. I love it, to let the colors flow. I love to watch them running over the paper and merge together. At this moments I would like to hold on the time. The wet paper with the wet color is the biggest thing!

'The Enchanted Forest' Ink + Watercolor, 6,5 x 6,5 " (16 x 16 cm)

Portrait of a woman and Flowers

'Jennifer' Mixed Media

'Autumn Pansies' Watercolor 7,9 x 7,9"

 

Landscape sketch

Today I took a few minutes to draw this small plain air in the landscape where I live. The morning sun was so wonderful that it was fun to sit there drawing.

The sketch shows tree trunks of our neighboring farmer , who's selling them for firewood.

Plein Air sketch with 2B pencil on DIN A5 sketchbook

Portrait of a woman

For the WetCanvas Portrait Challenge today I draw this beautiful woman.

Covehead Lighthouse

Another watercolor for the Virtual Paintout.

Schminke Horadam artists watercolors 

on Arches Grain Satiné hot pressed 

9 x 12 1/8 "

Berna Escudero

A drawing I did after Robert Henri's wonderful painting. It took me 3 times to try before I was satisfied with the result.

Lead pencil drawing on Schöllershammer 190 g/qm DIN A3

Too bad, but I found no information  who Berna Escudero was. I was fascinated on her expression that for me is a mixture of pride and disdain. Her look is childlike and in an adult manner, it's telling a story...

Roman Catholic Church, St. Peters Bay, Canada

Today I finished this painting for the Virtual Paintout.

It shows the Roman Catholic Church of St. Peters Bay Prince Edward Island, Canada, the paintout for August.

 Watercolor, 30 x 30 cm (11,8 x 11,8"). 

Enjoy!

An old barn and our cathedral 'Siegtaldom'

"Old Barn" DIN A4, pencil drawing

 Siegtaldom, St. Laurentius.
DIN A4 pencil drawing

Enjoy!

It's just Ink and a little watercolor

Today I draw two miniature paintings, the first with ink and watercolor, the second only with ink. I like the second one more. Would appreciate your oppinion. Which one is your favourite and why do you prefer it?

ATC No. 16

ATC No. 17

A little Sunflower

At first my consolation for the Tahitian. It is so far away from here, but I imagine it is horrible for the people staying there.
Hope they will get help soon.
This little Sunflower I painted yesterday. The kind answer of my request for permission came promptly. The copyright for the botanical picture is expired.

ATC No. 15

Umbrella and poppies

My drawing studies are going on and I can see some progress.

Before I painted the umbrella I've drawn it 5! times with pencil on drawing paper. I think I will dream of it tonight :)).

The poppies I painted without any drawing, just paint on the paper and both at the same time. During one was drying, I painted on the other. It tooks me less than a half hour for both.  That was a great experience for me because I never thought I can do that!

Let me know your opinion, am I a star or not? :)))

Thank's for stopping by.

Enjoy!

ATC No. 12, 13, 14

Please feel free to visit my album left above on this page.

If you are interested please email me: J.Smarsinski (ät)t-online.de

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New ATCs and a New Blog - ATC Exchange Place

Yesterday  started a special blog for exchanging the Artist Trading Cards. What a great idea! If you want to join in, ask the admin for invitation. It's fun! Visit the ATC Exchange Place

Created three mini-artworks during some breaks from my drawing studies.

ATC No, 9, 10 and 11

Watercolor + Ink

(No. 10 is already given for another).

Click on the diashow above to visit the complete album.

Enjoy!

Murateri updated

Following Sladdi's comment concerning too much lightness of the hair, I darkened some shadows of the drawing. Hope it will work better now.

This year starts with a drawing

Hi all!

First work in 2010 is a pencil and charcoal drawing of a nice japanese girl called murataeri. The photo was given under creative commons license from flickr member idua_japan. Thanks to him for the wonderful picture.

I selected this for a drawing because I love the glamourous but innocent look of that girl.

Klick here for the photograph

Hope you like it and also  my drawing. Enjoy!

Winter Scene

Today I finished this painting of a winter scene. Most probably this is my last winter painting before Christmas.

Wish you all happy holydays and a peaceful, healthy and successful New Year!

Schminke watercolor on Hahnemühle 425 g/qm  watercolor paper

9,4 " x 12,6 " (24 x 32 cm)

Drawing

Drawing is the hardest thing for me, but essentially for building up good paintings (I mean). I often draw, but most of my results are only scetches. Tried to draw a little more detailed and with more attention to light and shadow in this two I finished today.

Lighthouse, 8" x 10" on watercolor paper

Blossoms, 9,5" x 11" on drawing paper

The Fortress

Another painting about winter and snow was coming out of my brush at another sleepless night. It's showing a  German fortress surrounded by a protective body of water, apparently build up in the 13th century.

Watercolor 6" x 8"

Four further mini paintings, called ACEO

The show must go on!
Nightwork as usual, I love to paint when everybody's sleeping.

I'll tell you a secret. Most of my minis are copies from famous deceased painters. Some of them show only a small detail. Please leave your comment when you identify one of them.

Here are the next four ACEO

ACEO - Jetzt hat es auch mich erwischt! (I'm infected)

Hi Folks,
ACEO steht für Art Card Editions and Original  – diese Karten haben eine gemeinsame Regel, sie haben die Größe von 6,4 x 8,9 cm (2,5" x 3,5"), die Größe einer Sammelkarte. Und dazu sind sie auch gedacht, zum Sammeln und Tauschen. Natürlich kann man sie auch einrahmen und aufhängen.

ACEO stands for "Art Cards, Editions and Originals". These cards have one main rule - they are 3.5 inches by 2.5 inches - the size of a trading card.
If you want to learn more about ACEO feel free to visit this page:

ACEO

Hier also meine ersten 4 ACEOs oder ATCs, wie sie auch genannt werden, zum Thema Winter:
So here are my first four ACEOs for winter theme:

Bei Interesse einfach eine Email schicken. Die Adresse findest Du meinem Profil.

If you are interested in an exchange, please feel free to contact me per email. You can find the adress in my profile.