This isn’t the video of the TV team yet, but shows me at the easel in Austria/Wildkogel. With the help of my sketches, my plein air studies and a foto I show one possibilty how to turn this into a pastell painting.
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Wildkogel Workshop: Looking back
8th, October 2010 - 08:19 PM
I’m back home and much faster back to daily buisiness than I like. Looking back I can see why it were special days. First of all, when you take the cable car up the mountain, your everyday life stays down in the valley and it doesn’t take long till you feel comfy up there. The title of the workshop »Landscape in the light« was promptly delivered by the weather. It is indescribable to see the sunrise and the others must have felt the same, because nearly everyone rose at 6 a.m to be there.The only thing that bothered me a bit is that naturally, as the workshop instructur, I didn’t find as much time to paint as I would have liked.
Blick zum Larmkogel, Pastell, 15×17cm,2010 © Astrid Volquardsen
Skizzenbuch,
2010 © Astrid Volquardsen
One thing is for sure: We‹re coming back and are planning a new workshop for 2012.
Skizzenbuch2010 © Astrid Volquardsen
Wildkogel:Time to say goodbye
6th, October 2010 - 08:36 PM
Our wonderful workshop days in the Alp mountains are over and on the photos you can see some moments from our last day there. I’m on my way back and will blog more within the next days.
2010, © Marc Volquardsen
2010, © Marc Volquardsen
2010, © Marc VolquardsenWildkogel: Early Morning
5th, October 2010 - 09:42 PM
Morgenlicht in den Alpen
2010 © Astrid Volquardsen
These past days the weather was really fascinating. My favourite time was in the morning twilight, when the sun hasn’t light up the mountains and the village lights can be seen in the morning fog.
Wildkogel: Students works
4th, October 2010 - 11:53 AM
For my work sketching is very important and at the beginning of the workshop the students learned to use a sketchbook. In their works it shows that they actually had looked at what they were painting and that they simply didn’t use a photograph.
Pastell, 21×24cmAstrid Schmidtner,© 2010
Hüttentalkopf, Pastell, 21×28 cm
© 2010, Claus Schünemann
Pastell, 28×21cm
© 2010, Monica Struve-Hilmer
Pastell, 21×24cm
© 2010, Petra Schmidt
Above you can see some of the students works. The scepticism towards a sketchbook has disappeared and leads sometimes to funny pieces of conversations:
Petra. (happy):« I even started coloring my sketches.«
Klaus: »And your face too!«
Wildkogel: Working athmosphere
3rd, October 2010 - 08:23 PM
Mittagspause auf der Terrasse, direkt vor unserem Atelier
2010, © Astrid Volquardsen
Unser Atelier, man beachte den Blick nach draußen
2010, © Astrid Volquardsen
Petra skizziert in der Abendstimmung
2010, © Astrid Volquardsen
The weather is really nice and only the mornings are cold. We got up at 6.00 a.m. to watch the sunrise and started with some sketches.
Today it was so warm, that we could have our lunch break outside, in front of our studio.
The group harmonises very well and together with the environment it turns out to be an exceptional working athmosphere.
