Autum Surf, 14×78cm, Pastell, © Astrid Volquardsen, 2011
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After very sunny and warm weeks in September, autumn has arrived with its stormy weather. At the North Sea one now can watch the surf with its typically green color.
Auflaufend Wasser
Pastel, 2011, 30×60 cm
Thundourus surf. When I look at this painting I have a deep longing to go back to the North Sea. The different shades of green in the surf always faszinates me, when the afternoon and evening sun shines through the waves.
Boom of the sea, 30×30 cm, 2011
© Astrid Volquardsen
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Do you know this feeling, when you are standing at the beach, listening to the boom of the surf, feeling the spray in your face und with every breaker you get wet – heaven!
With pastel painting l have found the ideal medium to artistically and creatively transform these special conditions of illumination. I love to spread pigment on paper without anything else in between.
Pastel paintings come alive when you put different layers of colour on the canvas. This is a great artistic stimulus for me. Which combination of colour pigments can be used to achieve precisely the effect of light and shade that I want? During the artistic process, layers of colour are continually built up and removed until the light situation has been captured and the picture can unfold its unique illuminating power.
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