Beach at the Baltic Sea

This former diapositive (now digitalized) shows a beach at the Baltic Sea with "Strandkoerben". "Strandkoerbe" means - literally translated - beach baskets. You can sit in them and have shelter from wind, sun and even rain. 

 

Village with Church

This is another diaslide which I selected for digitalization. The reason for it was the sky - on the right side thick rainclouds are hanging over the hill, on the left side the sky is almost clear with some nice clouds. Probably the slide was taken before or after a thunderstorm.

 

Mixing acrylic inks

Color mixing with acrylic inks is hard, at least for me. I am using small yoghurt containers (as I am eating a yoghurt almost every day, these containers never disappear!), and I noticed that using separate containers for each colour makes mixing easier. However I have to keep in mind the different tinting strenghts of paints - take a wee bit of white and move that over to a red or blue, to name an example. Another one is mixing blue with red - as blue is stronger than red take a tiny bit of blue and move it over to the red. In the end it is practice, practice, practice!

 

Shades of blue

With this painting I have returned to abstract painting, this time however with acrylic inks. I used all kinds of brands - Schmincke, Lucas, and a refill for a Molotow acrylic marker. I used white also to mix some lighter blues.

 

Merman Version 2

This painting looks like it has been done with watercolours - but it hasn't. I used acrylic inks this time. You can water down acrylic inks and then apply them in layers. As acrylic inks stay dry once they have dried you can achieve all kinds of effects with layers. The only disadvantage of acrylic inks is that they dry very quickly in the palette or the container - so you have to be quick as well!

 

Merman - Version One

The basis of this Merman character was a quick pencil sketch; I then scanned that sketch and  converted it into a vektor line drawing with Inkscape. I did it in a way which allows me to make changes to the body, the tail or the arms and head of the character without having to do it all again. I then printed the lineart and tranferred it to watercolour paper. The coloring was done with liquid watercolours (or watercolour inks as they are sometimes called), using the colours cyan and chartreuse, which is a very light green. The red patches on the skin were done with alcoholbased markers.

 

Turkey creature traditionally coloured: second version

I used liquid watercolours to colour the second version of the turkey creature. I mainly used Chartreuse, which is a very yellowish green, and fir green, which is a blueish green. And I used a white inktense pencils for the eyes.

 

Turkey creature traditionally coloured - 1st version

This time I printed out the lineart version in Inkscape, traced it on my watercolour paper and coloured it with my stabilo 68 pens. In my opinion this guy has a lot more character than the vektor image. He looks quite determined and a little bit grumpy - doesn't he?