‘Artifacts #4’ Acrylic paint, oil paint, enamel, objects, glue, gesso (each 24 x 18 cm) – Intermediate space –
Category: Parallel Projects
Artifacts #3
‘Artifacts #3’ Painting #1-6: Acrylic paint, oil paint, objects, glue, gesso (each 24 x 18 cm) – Intermediate space –
Artifacts #2
‘Artifact #2’: Acrylic and found objects on canvas – sized and gessoed (37 x 63 cm) -Intermediate space- This ‘Artifact’ is lost – as I re-used it as support for another painting => Project 5 – Exercise 3
Artifacts #1
‘Artefact #1’: Series with found objects and pigment, acrylic medium Acrylic on board each (24 x 30 cm) – An Intermediate space –
Sketchbook pages (13): Sketchbook #11 – Aare river, Switzerland
This sketchbook is from my sketch crawl close to my residence in Switzerland (Bremgarten, canton Bern) at the river Aare. Inspired by nature, water and residential architecture in the neighbourhood. My physical and embodied encounter with the world around me. I have to say that it was quite cold outside, around zero and felt like minus something. Well prepared with…
Sketchbook pages (12): Sketchbook #08 – Bernese Oberland, Switzerland
Sketching outdoor and looking outside through windows at and in the neighbourhood of my workplace in Meiringen, Switzerland and some views on the mountain Niesen, Thun on the way back home. Working fluently with watercolour, exploring human presence, and investigating various viewpoints. A visual note-taking of impressions and thoughts. A time based looking through my sketchbook – filled with impressions:…
Daily Self-Portraits: Week 9 – ‘Portrait objects’
This week’s goal is to make each day 9 smaller paintings on one page capturing portrait partials and other objects that are directly influencing my self perception. By that I will paint a collecting of items that at the end present myself. I took some inspiration from Carole Schneemann‘s ‘Partial Portraits’, 1963 and the Cluster pictures by Juliette Blightman hanging on…
Daily Self-Portraits: Week 8 ‘The Eyes of the Skin’
Task for this week: Bodily engaging painting – body painting – painting with my body – another self-portrait “The Eyes of the Skin” (Juhani Pallasmaa) Traditionally vision was considered superior and alongside words the dominant aspects in art history and aesthetics. Other senses as touch and smell were since Aristoteles considered as inferior. Pallasmaa (2005) looked into those aspects in the context…
Daily Self-Portraits: Week 7
Plan for this week: Revision and reflection Form the previous weeks there are several aspects and approaches that I would like to follow further: Color to depict mood and atmosphere Luminosity through color and tonal contrast and layering Additive and subtractive painting, textured grounds Bodily interaction I think it would be beneficial to dedicate one week to one specific theme. Task…
Daily Self-Portraits: Week 6
Plan for this week: Further exploration in context, different viewpoints, working in oil Learnings: Luminosity: using japanese paper with oil, absorbing oil (learning from part 1) and translucent to backlight Working in oil takes really more time – challenging for one painting a day. The last paintings were actually done in two days. Focusing on one focus area can make the overall…
Daily Self-Portraits: Week 5
Plan for this week: in oil and acrylic, leverage my self portrait learnings, new poses Learnings: with a coloured ground, still wet scratching is another way to build shapes (reminds me at the scratch works at school time in oil pastels, black overpainting over coloured spots) Luminosity: based on strong tonal contrasts or by multiple transparent layers Concept: Mirror reflection…
Daily Self Portraits: Week 4
My plan for that week was to exploring planes in color with less focus on linear qualities. For some of the works I got inspired by works by Walter Sickert and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye for their use of muted and broken colors. I was travelling so I used rather pastels due to space limitations (#23-28). I find those materials quite useful to take…
Daily Self-Portraits: Week 3
Learnings: Working with palette knife enabled me to work more investigative with additive and subtractive marks With some inspirational references to other artists (#17-21) I was looking into other perspectives of painting. Plan for next week: Exploring planes and less drawing in paint. Inspirational sources: Elizabeth Peyton (#19-21), Jonathan Yeo (#17-18) newest on the top: #21: Gouache on paper (30 x 40 cm) =>…
Daily Self-Portraits: Week 2
This week I decided to follow just my intuition and to work in some other materials and with stronger emphasis on surface and additive and subtractive painting. I focused more on broken colors and limited palette. Learnings: With a more experimental approach like in my sketchbooks I got a loose approach. Experimenting with oil sticks was fun – challenging on…
Daily Self-Portraits: Week 1
This is my start with daily paintings of myself. Without prep drawing painting directly and immediately on the supports. Using paint and brushes, spatula or at times other tools. I kept quite an open and experimental approach this week. Just enjoying working with paint and my tools and see what results is coming out. At times I tried in the…