6 Jun 2010

La Bonne Etoile – A workshop with Margaret Dyer

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Now that I’m back in Germany I realize that I was taken away from my usual daily routine and was put straight into another kind of time ….(I’m missing the right word to describe it).

I had such a great time, because of four reasons:

  1. Margaret Dyer as an increadible instructor
  2. My painting buddies.
  3. delicious food
  4. Kippy and her husband Jerome as splendid hosts.

This week has deeply touched my soul and I’m very curious to find out how all the things I’ve learned will influence me as an artist in the future.
Anybody who thinks of going to this place in order to take a workshop, I can only advise not to hesitate, safe your money and get in there. As far as I know Kippy and Margaret are setting up something for the year 2011.

Eva im Bad – 61×40,5 cm
© Astrid Volquardsen

Margaret is a very good teacher, very generous with sharing her knowledge and she will teach you all the things she knows. In this workshop the students learned her formula of her procedure and how to stick to it, how to approach the work with a live model, how to work from photos so they don’t look like a photo and how to finish a painting.
I felt like a dry sponge and Margaret was so kind to pour over me the water (and some wine: we’re in France right?) and I’ve soaked it all up. And if she felt I could take in more, she would give it to me generously.
Margaret, I said it so many times, but I’m very thankful for your input. I feel more complete as an artist now.

Café Jacquemart André – 60×43 cm
© Astrid Volquardsen

The good instructing was rounded up by the place we stayed in. The home of Kippy and Jereome is a very beautiful place and the two of them are very attentive towards their guests.
Well, and then there was the food, just delicious food and we had so many nice conversations and or discussions about art, live in general and I don’t know what else. And we surely did laugh a lot.
We met some of Jerome’s and Kippy’s friends at their house and the talking didn’t stop there.
It was very interesting and sometimes very funny to find out how nationalities see things differently.


Well, when I’m grey and old (and hopefully I won’t have Alzheimer’s disease) I will look back to this week as one of the bests in my live.

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3 Jun 2010

Eva im Bad

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Mittwoch sind wir in Paris gewesen (ich glaube es waren 12 Stunden oder so) und kamen voller Eindrücke nach einem wunderschönen Tag völlig erschlagen zurück. Einige Touristen gehen bei Cartier shoppen, Künstler gehen zu Sennelier.
Heute waren wir alle wirklich fleißig und haben bis in den späten Abend die Zeit im Atelier verbracht. Bei mir ist dabei im Laufe des Tages mein neues Bild »Eva im Bad« entstanden.
Am Anfang der Woche hat Eva uns Abends im Badezimmer noch Modell gestanden und wir konnten wundervolle Fotos von ihr machen, von denen wir jetzt arbeiten.

Eva im Bad, Pastell, 2010, ca.45×60cm
© Astrid Volquardsen

Das Foto entspricht nicht ganz der original Farbqualität, aber wir sind erst um 22:00 Uhr aus dem Atlier gekommen. Ich werde mal sehen, dass ich morgen ein besseres Foto vom Bild hinbekomme.
Ein neues Bild habe ich noch begonnen und ich bin gespannt, ob es mir gelingt eine Kaffeehauszene noch umzusetzen.

Seit gestern hat auch hier endlich der Sommer Einzug gehalten und wir konnten erstmals die wunderschöne Terrasse nutzen und so etwas wie französisches Landleben genießen.

© Astrid Volquardsen

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