Posts for »September, 2010«:

Moon sketch

29th, September 2010 - 07:33 AM

Mond Farbimpression, Pastell,
2010, © Astrid Volquardsen

Last week we had these beautiful evenings when the moon rose in the twilight and the whole landscape presented itself with glorious colors. In the beginning it’s more blueish/ violett and within half an hour the blue completely changed.
As I was standing there, I tried to get in my memory as many impressions and colors as possible and headed back to the studio and captured it on my paper.
The evening was very warm and the air was full with chirrs of the bush crickets and two bats were hunting above my head. It felt somehow like a goodbye to summer.

Mond über Geltinger Bucht, Pastell, 13×21cm,
2010, © Astrid Volquardsen

Tags: A small picture • Flensborg Fjord • Nocturne
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Eva im Bad (IV)

26th, September 2010 - 11:48 AM
Eva im Bad (IV), Pastell, 21×23cm,
2010, © Astrid Volquardsen

Another piece from the bath. This time I left the shower head out, so I wouldn’t have to many details. On the other hand it strengthens the light, so I’m not sure about this one. I changed the colours in the background in order to find something which isn’t so strong in it’s chroma and go back to some more »natural colours«.

Tags: Figurative Painting • Figurative work
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Eva im Bad (III)

22nd, September 2010 - 08:45 PM
Eva im Bad (III), Pastell, 21×23cm,
2010, © Astrid Volquardsen

It feels so good, that the figurative work is back in my artistic life. In my landscapes I’m interested in a quite realistic way with realistic colours, whereas in the figurative work I love to use completely different colours and a different technique. I don’t blend as much as I do in my other work.

Eva in the bath still keeps me on the hook and I again realize how amazing the photoshooting in France was. There are still many more pictures to come.
While painting I realized why I love painting so much. It all comes down to this very moment, when you put down a color and something inside you klicks into place, some very intense moment of perception. It’s very hard to put into words.

A singer ones told me that it seems to be comparable when one feels the sound of a note deep inside.

Tags: Figurative Painting • Figurative work
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Hamburger Hallig

15th, September 2010 - 07:15 AM
Skizzenbuch, Astrid Volquardsen, 2010

The weather in North Germany can be very, very grey and still there lies a beauty in it. Especially, when the heavy rain clouds come across the coastline and everything disappears in the mists of rain.

Tags: Halligs • Northern Lights • North Sea • Sketches
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Wildkogel

11th, September 2010 - 08:12 PM

In Oktober I will be giving a workshop in Austria at the Wildkogel Hütte, at a height of 2000 m above ground. This is really exciting and today my tickets arrived for the cable railway. To it attached was a flyer with some photographs. It got me even more excited and I’m curious what the Alp mountains will look like in Oktober. Funny enough I suddenly was reminded of a famous german comedian, who played this joke in the seventies about a yodel diplom class and luckely I found the film on youtube. I especially like the part, where the teacher corrects Mrs. Hoppenstedt, because she uses the wrong tense. (»No, that’s 2nd Future at Sunrise).

Tags: Wildkogel
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