I managed to paint another painting in between Flyleaf releases! This one is based on a photo from a recent vacation to the dutch north see. Callantsoog, to be exact. The drawing is a little wonky, but the values and colors are quite successful, I think. And I’m very happy… 
I painted this picture mostly to get out of a multi-month rut where I did not paint anything. It’s a little scene of the old town in Stralsund in northern Germany – another holiday photo turned into a painting. What inspired me about the scene were the interesting color contrasts… 
Another painting of the evening light in little French town Saint-Roman-de-Malegarde. I started painting this picture on location en plein air, but I had to make some adjustments back home to make it presentable. 
I painted this one “en plein air” on location in Saint-Roman-de-Malegarde, France, while cooling my feet in the river. 
I took the reference photo for this painting on the Karl-Heine-Kanal in Leipzig-Neulindenau. A very pretty corner of a beautiful town. 
A vacation photo served as reference for this photo. Small towns in the south of France are made for painting them. This is actually not my first painting of Saint-Roman-de-Malegarde, I previously painted a different corner of that town. It was interesting to play around with the contrast between dark… 
This portrait is of the character Fabienne as played by Maria de Medeiros in the movie classic Pulp Fiction. 
This is a study of “Cat in the snow” by Lena Rivo. 
This painting is obviously inspired by Star Wars. I used this lovely render by GrahamTG as a reference. Perhaps unexpectedly, the most difficult part of this painting was not the two X-Wings, but the clouds in the background. I had to find a balance between believability and abstraction. You can… .jpg)
I first painted a study of this painting by Jim Musil pretty much exactly two years ago. Back then I had only been painting for a couple of months and I was amazed that I could at all produce output that had at least a passing resemblance to my reference.… 
Small study of a mother caressing her child. The painting style is intentionally gestural and vague. Hands are indeed difficult to paint. 
This is another vacation photo turned into a small painting. It depicts the view of the Lilienstein as seen from Königstein in Saxon Switzerland. I took a long break between starting and finishing this piece, because I was not sure I would be able to turn the reference photo into… 
This painting is a small study of a plein air painting by San-Francisco-based painter Michael Chamberlain. The original painting can be seen (as it’s being painted) in this vlog on YouTube. 
This painting is a “Master Study” of John Singer Sargent’s “Lady Agnew of Lochnaw”. The goal was to copy the original as faithfully as possible. I chose to only paint a section of the larger original in order to have more room for details in my smaller size. It was… 
This is an attempt at a larger version of Feld in Wernershausen #2. Although it is nice to have more room for details, some of the spontaneity of the original miniature painting is unfortunately lost. 
A small portrait of Sir Richard Starkey, a.k.a. Ringo Starr from The Beatles. I used this photograph as a reference. Here is an animation visualising my painting process: 
I painted this pair of cute miniature scenes on a wooden Jenga brick as part of a wedding gift. I was inspired by the beautiful post-harvest scenery of the Werratal in the Bavarian Eichsfeld. It was an interesting excercise to paint on a surface that small. It forces you to… 
I painted this pair of cute miniature scenes on a wooden Jenga brick as part of a wedding gift. I was inspired by the beautiful post-harvest scenery of the Werratal in the Bavarian Eichsfeld. It was an interesting excercise to paint on a surface that small. It forces you to… 
Work-in-progress animation: 
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Inspired by the Star Wars The Mandalorian TV series. Work-in-progress animation: 
Wismar is a cozy little town on the Baltic Sea with a pretty old town. And at the pier you can eat lots of fish sandwiches and watch ships. Work-in-progress animation: 
The reference photo for this quick study was taken from below the Pont de Nyons, a medieval bridge in the south of france. The river below was a lovely spot for cooling off in the summer heat. 
Work-in-progress animation: 
This little sketch is my first painting done directly on the beach en plein air. Despite the burning sun, strong wind, and thousands of annoying bugs and flies, the subject is quite well taken. 
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Quick study of a holiday photo of a small town in the south of france. 
Starfleet captain Jean-Luc Picard, as portrayed by wonderful actor Patrick Steward, is probably one of my earliest childhood heroes. Even today, I admire his principled style of leadership. Here is a little animation of my painting process. I started out with a drawing that was way off, forcing me to… 
A quick “still life” of a beautiful (to me) cheeseburger. I like that this painting really conveys the essence of the subject and triggers an instant emotional reaction (positive or negative) in the viewer. Based on this photo by Ilya Mashkov. 
Quick study of a undulating river flowing through Norway. Reference for this painting was a drone photo shot by Norwegian Photographer Ruben Soltvedt. 
The “Argonath”, or “Pillars of Kings” are a great monument of the old Gondorian kingdom in J.R.R. Tolkien’s fictional world of Middle-Earth. This painting is of a scene in the “The Fellowship of the Ring” movie adaptation in which the fellowship guides their small elven boats over the Anduin river… 
This is a study of a painting of Lake Garda by italian Painter Mario Moretti Foggia. This was my largest painting yet. To document this relatively sizeable project I captured a couple of work-in-progress images which I managed to combine into the following animation: 
This is a quick small painting of a postcard motif I was given by a colleague as a painting challenge. It depicts a view of the tower of the city hall of the Bavarian town Wolfratshausen similar to this photo. 
The original painting I used as a reference is “Stillleben mit Totenkopf, Folianten, Taschenuhr und erloschener Öllampe” by Pieter Claesz from 1630. 
Another vacation photo I turned into a painting. I had to make a lot of changes to this originally completely overcast scene. I also invented the little path leading into the woods which serves nicely to guide the viewer’s eye into the painting. 
This painting is based on a photo by my wonderful sister. 
On the left is the “Wasserturm”, on the right the “Henkerturm”. 
This is a painting of China Cove, a famous beach in California. I admittedly only discovered that fact after I finished painting it. I believe it is a study after Romona Youngquist. I used this Instagram post as a reference, which I think I captured quite faithfully at my smaller… 
I found this little old waterwheel I stumbled upon during a vacation so charming that I just had to paint it. It is the “Bremsdorfer Mühle” in the “Brandenburger Schlaubetal”. 
I took the reference photo for this painting out of a moving train. 
Gamers will recognize this image instantly. It’s the key art of the Nintendo video game Zelda: Breath of the Wild. The most interesting thing about this painting is the way the sky and midground evoke a lot of stuff happening with only a couple of brushstrokes. 
I always wanted a big ship painting, so I decided to make my own. The effect of light shining on and glowing through the sails was hard to get right. I greatly enjoyed watching it all come together when painting in all the little ropes at the end. The (much… 
This was my first attempt at layering sections of landscape with atmospheric perspective. The effect turned out quite nicely. The pebbles in the foreground were a lot of work, but it was worth painting the individual rocks to get a good amount of detail in the foreground. Part of a… 
This painting went through so many renditions! Because I painted it on a relatively large canvas, I was motivated to try again and again until I could make it work. I really struggled with achieving a realistic perspective on the river. But it was a lot of fun to paint… 
I spent so much time on this painting! It is a pretty faithful rendition of a photograph of my son I took during a vacation in the south of France. I’m pretty happy with how this one turned out. The texture of the paper perfectly matches the disheveled look of… 
A study of a painting by the inimitable Jim Musil. The original painting can be found at his website. Update: See also my much improved second attempt at this study. 
This was a small experimental painting that I ended up immediately overpainting, since it did not turn out how I wanted and by far did not look as good as the photograph makes it seem. 
This painting is based on a holiday photo of a house in Austria we stayed in for a couple of weeks. This was my first time painting on a larger canvas and it was very challenging to get a good balance of detail all over the canvas. It was fun… 
This painting is literally an imitation of an imitation of a Bob Ross painting. To paint it I followed this painting tutorial by Nic Hankins, an acolyte of Bob Ross. It was very interesting to paint on a pure black canvas in the lower half of the painting. It made… 
This is one of my first completed paintings. It’s a paint-along of some Bob-Ross-style YouTube tutorial. It was thrilling to see the birch tree trunks come to life by combining whites and light blues. The layout is pretty wonky, but I like the way the colors turned out, especially the…