Landscape sketches in oil pastels

Tuesday, den 2. April 2013

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 painting in our local vineyards.This time I tested the time lapse function of my Gopro Hero Camera. I found [...]

First oil pastel demo video – Small tree trunk study

Thursday, den 21. March 2013

On the last weekend I could do a first demo video about sketching and drawing with oil pastels in nature. I bought a flexible camera tripod that I can attach with a big clamp on my drawing board. Before mounting the Gopro camera I start the camera and enable the WIFI control. Then I mount [...]

Plein air study , tree drawing in winter

Saturday, den 23. February 2013

This is my first, imperfect recording with a GOPRO camera that I want to use for more documentation during this year. At present I am looking for a flexible tripod to be mounted directly on the drawing support. That way I hope to change the perspective to full format, vertical view in coming videos. One [...]

From the diary of a tramp

Sunday, den 4. March 2012

Plein Air painting – Andre Krigar, Berlin

Friday, den 17. February 2012

Andre Krigar is a painter in Berlin. This video is one of the better ones on plein air painting.

Monotype printmaking without a press – video demonstration

Friday, den 23. December 2011

After long last I finally did a video and filmed how I do my monotype prints without using a press. I mounted my mobile phone over the glass plate and then started the film function. I interrupted the recording two times. This simple monochrome print took about an hour to make and I compressed the [...]

What is the connection between banking and (plein air) art?

Thursday, den 10. November 2011

I was amused by a recent blogpost about the ING Art Collection. Somehow I did not get no further clue what the connection between banks and artists is other than what I knew already but wasn’t said in the post : The artists want the money and the banks want public relation. What I understood [...]

Alice Shirley – drawing with Squid ink

Sunday, den 25. September 2011

Unfortunately I can’t remember where and how I found this film and the portfolio of the artist Alice Shirley.  The artist does amazing ink drawings.

The Willow tree – 3rd session

Wednesday, den 20. January 2010

There was time for another visit at the willow tree this afternoon. After one or two more sessions I expect that the drawing will have reached final stage. I took a short film this time , which will bring the subject even closer to you.