{"id":12161,"date":"2017-02-02T11:25:14","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T10:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pastellbilder.de\/?p=12161"},"modified":"2017-06-12T07:58:14","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T05:58:14","slug":"winterunfreuden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pastellbilder.de\/en\/2017\/02\/02\/winterunfreuden\/","title":{"rendered":"The joys of winter ( maybe not so joyful)"},"content":{"rendered":"Last Friday I went out again to paint plein air at the Alster. The day before I didn’t have a good feeling, because the east wind was getting stronger. East wind in our latitude means arctic or Siberian cold. Not nice at all. And I was right. Even though we only had -2 Degrees Celsius ( 28 Degrees Fahrenheit) the wind just cooled you down and makes the color go very tough to paint with.<\/p>\n

This morning I listened to a podcast with Mary Pellis and Eric Roads »On painting what moves your soul«. At some points it resonated deeply with me.<\/p>\n

»When you try to find your artistic voice: Go outside and do little studies and line them up.You will start to see what it is that excites you.Those paintings will have a more powerful shape, a beautiful line, or a more powerful tonality.«<\/p>\n

Lack of time might not be a disadvantage because »of the miracle of turning of the intellect and painting intuitively.«<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Well, cold weather adds up to that. It just freezes your brain. I needed to stop this painting much earlier than when I wouldn’t have, because I was shivering.<\/p>\n

\"20170127-Alster-062\"<\/p>\n

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Foto: Astrid Volquardsen, 2017<\/p>\n

\"20170127-Alster-079\"<\/p>\n

Cold Wind, 18×24cm, Oil on MDF, Astrid Volquardsen, 2017<\/p>\n

\"20170127-Alster-079-2\"<\/p>\n

Detail from »Cold Wind« Foto: Astrid Volquardsen, 2017<\/p>\n

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