Author Archives: Tanja

Inside: Paulina Góra

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I had another chance to interview a fellow artist, this time Polish surrealist artist Paulina Góra. She tells about her favorite style of art and how music, movies and her children inspire her.

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Tutorial “Sunflower in Watercolor”

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While I painted the sunflower in watercolor I made some photographs. I used them to make a tutorial, which you can download as pdf-file here: Sunflower-Tutorial. Either left click on the link to open the tutorial in your browser (for … Continue reading

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Watercolor Sunflower

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Inspired by an instructional video by watercolor artist Joanne Boon Thomas, I painted this sunflower. I wanted it to be bold and expressive and I am quite happy with the result. It will be one of the birthday presents for … Continue reading

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Color Schemes #5

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10th may, so one could expect nice weather in this country, but it’s raining, again. They forecast even a storm! This makes me long for warm colors, so today a color scheme with autumn colors, the weather is more autumn … Continue reading

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Woman with round earring

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Inspired by the beautiful photo “African I” by coffee-and-pepper on deviantArt. Painted in Photoshop CS2 with a Wacom Intuos 3 pen tablet.

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Seen on the internet #4

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Another selection of links and artworks I saw recently on the web: about colors, dailay painting, art challenges and of course several awesome artworks by fellow artists!

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Woman with blue bandana

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Inspired by “Say Goodbye” by Anni Suvi; painted in Photoshop CS2 with a Wacom Intuos 3 pen tablet.

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Inside: Luca Rossi

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I had the great pleasure to interview Italian surrealist artist Luca Rossi. He tells about his passion for art, the fun of collaborative work and gives some tipps for people who like to draw.

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Expressive Sunflower

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Inspired by a video (see below) I painted a sunflower today. I liked to be expressive und leave the form of the petals to chance. Painted with acrylic paint on stretched canvas with a flat brush and a palette knife.

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Color Schemes #4

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Another color scheme inspired by nature. My sister took this photo.

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