Big Fish Head

This is the last painting I executed in the Museum.



40x30 cm, Oil on Canvaspanel

There is a saying, that in a museum the time stands still. Here you can see that I paint so fast that even a photo can´t capture me when I am on duty. :-)

Sports Field

Michael and I were so keen on painting outdoors that the weather forecast wasn´t able to stop us and we were rewarded with a beautiful but chilly day. The painting was done in a place called Augarten and depicted in the painting on the right is one of the Flak Towers.



24x30 cm, Oil on Canvaspanel

Me with my stupidlooking but warm cap.



My setup.



Michael with the second Flak Tower behind him, just to show you how beautiful the parks are here in Vienna.

Icebear Bottom

I wanted to do another interior scene that I kept more sketchy. And what is more picturesque that an icebear from behind?



50x40 cm, Oil on Canvaspanel

Sunny Sunday

This is for my Dutch cyber friend René. Painted in the vicinity of Vienna. There is a new blog about the PleinAir Workshop I am doing with Andrew Judd in September in one of the most beautiful countrysides of Austria. You will find the link here. ------>



15x20 cm, Oil on Mat Board

Live Paintings

Just the other night I went to a drawing class by a colleague of mine and did these 25 minute sketches. So I don´t hang around the museum all the time. The next post will be some plein air paintings I did.







each 20x15 cm, Oil on Cardboard

Two Ducks

It is very funny that almost every day when I am in the museum there are visitors from one nation who have the majority. On some it is the Spanish day on others the Asian or Italian. This time it was the day of Hungary. There were loads of Hungarian Schoolkids running past my easel, shouting and asking stupid questions. I finally gave up totally deranged.



24x30 cm
Oil on Canvaspanel

Diana Ape

In the past years I have done so many portraits, so this one wasn´t too difficult, except that this Ape has more hair than the average sitter. I really like its beard!



30x24 cm
Oil on Canvaspanel

Is it not a friendly Museum? They provide seats for the exhausted painter.

The Malayan Tapir

30x40 cm
Oil on Canvaspanel

Another Work in Progress (WIP)

The Arch finished

Here is the finished painting. I hope you enjoyed watching the progress.



40x50 cm
Oli on Canvaspanel

At the beginning of the last session I corrected some drawing flaws, shown here in the photograph.



This is the block in stage, where I tried to capture the right values. In these areas I used only Transparent Oxide Red, Yellow Ochre, Ultramarin Blue and Titanium White, in order not to become to bright in the surrounding areas of the arch.



Here I did more detailed work and stopped.



To show you how we started our painting day, here is a photo of Michael Ornauer, my painting pal, preparing for hard painting work.

The Arch continued

I proceeded with the painting but did some others as well in the meantime. On Wednesdays it gets very noisy in the staircase, where my setup is, because it is in the vicinity of the museum restaurant where they have a weekly dinner. The other thing is taking photographs of the painting. I don´t like doing it!

But here it is!



Unfortunately I was at the Students Exhibition of the Viennese Art Academy the night before and in order to deal with the shown artwork I decided to get drunk. It seemed to me the only way to cope with contemporary art. ;-)

So I wasn´t as concentrated as I wanted to be and painted only the achitecture on the right side. Some people said I should leave the painting like it was but I think that I have to make the surrounding areas of the arch cooler and muted in order to make the focal point clearer. You can see it on the left side. The yellow tone of the underpainting is competing with the middle section.

This is the only photo I have taken in between because the light situation is not so good for taking photos.