The Fallen - WIP and Painting Night results

Good Morning to everyone!

Moritz and I are having a little challenge for ourselves, we like to call it painting marathon. From yesterday evening on, we paint and paint, as much as possible. 

Only reasons to stop are eating, a minimal amount of sleep and some hours of enjoying the sun.

This will go on until Monday evening for Moritz, until Tuesday evening for me.

The joy of colors is back, my hands start to shiver again, while not holding a brush and my head is bursting from ideas.

As I hoped, Paris was some  end of my bad time, some place to regain strength and happiness.

First some WIP- shots of the fallen one: 

Moritz decided to sketch out some big cannon for his chaos dwarf army:

Kind of tired, but glad.

Soon Moritz should arrive and I'm ready for another painting session. Let's see how far the fallen one gets today, there'll be pictures for sure.

Have a nice day everyone and enjoy the spring!

Painting night

As promised, some results of today's painting night.

I decided to prime an old project once more, an fallen Dark Angle.

I want to practice the blending technique Georg taught me, so there will be no wet in wet at this guy.

This is really new and exciting and for sure it is fun.

Glittering gifts and friends

Yesterday I received a gift from a good friend.

She works at some jewelry store and had a big bag with broken things.

I think much will end as basing material, some things will have their place at a new book cover.

She told me such bags are also sold there from time to time, so maybe you'll get a chance to have one too if you visit such stores.

My collection of jewelry, cogs and chains grows and grows, this weekend I'll visit a junk market to get some more.

Yesterday also was the last evening Georg was here, we had a bunch of friends with us. I wasn't able to paint, which felt really bad and I sure was angry with myself, but sometimes there isn't the right mood to take your brush.
Some old stuff, memories, stupid thoughts and feelings trouble me this days.

It was a strange day for sure, many people I like with me, good meals and a nice gift, but also this damn feeling of depression. 

Well, let's see what today will bring, me and Moritz will have a painting night.

Read you soon 

New guy in team ...

Greetings to everyone out there reading this blog.

As promised by Martin aka Farbfanatiker aka "Scherbe" a further "new" member will join the blog... so here i am - Moritz / Metaklon / Edo.

Making it easier to understand my motives i also was involved in the
"Fast molds with two component silicone SI6GB"- Post.
The "who/what/why"- section will receive some update later on where i will give a short introduction to who i am and what my motives are to join this blog.

This leads me to the point where i introduce my next/ first project....

Currently i work on some parts for my "Armies On Parade" plate.
I try to create a rusting fortress wall for my Chaos Dwarfs army (WIP!) by using the
"Instant Rust Set" of TRIANGLE Crafts.

And here a try out on a miniature ...

Regards and keep on happy painting/molding/modelling and enjoying life ;)

Yours Edo

Painting with...GeOrc

Until Thursday, I'll share my flat with a visitor.

Georg Damm, known as GeOrc, has some business in town and I provided our hobby room as guest room.

I really love meeting new people and my flat is always opened to strangers, for my house mate and I are backpackers and hitchhikers who often stayed a night with people, who neither knew us, nor had a reason to trust us...but did it nevertheless.

I don't regret this decision, for Georg sure is some nice guy to talk and paint with.

This evening he showed me some basics of blending (I have to admit, that for all the done miniatures in my cabinet, classic blending always was kind of tricky to me) and I forgot the time during practice.

Two hours after he went to bed, I am getting tired too and will stop my practice until tomorrow.

Tuesday will be a great day I think, breakfast with some nice girl, work in our GW store, trying to put more battlefields and paintstations into it, and painting evening with Georg.

What more could anyone want?

My big book of wisdom grows wiser again :)

Georg sure knows how to explain his knowledge, visiting one of his workshops now is part of my ToDo list.

Theory...

Praxis...

Use a paper towel...???

God gave me nice hands....ok, if it is necessary.

Georgs way of painting is quite different, but really interesting.

I think much learned will be combined with my own technique. 

By the way, Paris was great, pictures will take a few more days. Everyone came back alive and happy.

I am curious whether my blendings will be accepted or primed again :)

Good day everyone and read you tomorrow.

On the road to Paris

Just a few hours left and I'll be on my way to Paris.
4 friends, one car and big backpacks.
We have no reservations for rooms or any idea where we will stay and we'll  improvise the most things.
I did that kind of vacation a few years ago, back then we hitchhiked from Amsterdam to Paris, every night another flat and other nice people who gave us shelter :)

There will be a big report about our adventures and tons of pictures next week.

Have a nice week everyone and enjoy the little things.

Finished stuff and partypainting

There are still miracles in our world!
I finished something again :)
Today I want to talk about that miniature and some philosophy again.

Let's start with the mini...

This miniature started as some competition between me and Barfrau49 at the german Bemalforum.
We both came home from our painting class with Roman aka Jarhead that took place in Berlin and wanted to try out how fast we could paint a miniature with our new learned skills.
Each one had two weeks to paint an feral ork from Games Workshop.
Well, illness and studies killed my deadline, but I tried to hurry when I actually was painting and in the end, it were 8 hours real painting time.
I learned much about oil colors with this little guy and had tons of fun.
He isn't perfect, for sure and to be honest I am not really satisfied because there could have been much more BUT we wanted a fast paintjob and he is one of the last minis I started during painting evenings with Sandy and I just can't see him anymore.
So I declared him ready.
Feel free to leave a comment, I would be happy if you'd share your thoughts.

Now the philosophy part :)

Yesterday evening turned out a big surprise.

I had planned to paint with a friend of mine, just the two of us and some nice meal before with my room mate and best friend.

Nothing special, same procedure as every year james.

Than Moritz asked to join in and even my best joined us (who doesn't paint or draw at all).

Painting evening always meant sitting there and paint, paint, paint...well it did for me.

Yesterday was different, for we talked the whole time, joked around, drank some good wine and smoked shisha and the smallest part of all was about the hobby...BUT it seemed my orc would paint himself.

I never thought of painting while hanging out with people, who aren't involved but it was great and productive.

And for sure, I didn't laugh that much for weeks.

Maybe this is something you want to try too, like One Night One Miniature there is nothing to loose and much to gain.

Invite some friends (it is good if they draw, craft or do anything creative but it isn't that important) and have fun. I think this doesn't work for everybody, for I know people who sink into their own world while they are painting or who need absolute silence.

It is exactly what I was talking about a few days ago, the philosophy of our blog, our new atelier...to bring together all kinds of people who enjoy all kinds of arts and crafts.

Exchange of minds and hints from different points of view.

Other people often point out things, a minaiture painter doesn't see because he has his way and is into what he is doing.

In the end, there were nine hours of fun and creativity and good sleep came fast.

I love to paint big and this will be big for sure...
For every one in germany, Pfennigpfeifer (think many cities have them, at least here in saxony) has this damn big canvas for just 11 Euro.

You just paint and without noticing you become some training object..

Our little group

Drawing, painting, stuff...

Have a nice weekend everyone!

WIP, improvisation and an epic evening

Goooood morning world :)

Yesterday began bad, continued worse and ended...epic.

Strange ways of life, I woke up feeling sick, very sick and had to cancel my FREE sushi all you can eat, after that my washer decided to break and  decoloring some of my favorite clothing would be funny...one can't say fuck as often as I wanted to.

After  restoring some friend, who vowed he had no hangover, which I still believe was a lie, we decided to sit around, doing nothing until this bad day would be over.

Unpacking our big shisha (or hookah it seems to be called in america) parcel , trying to assemble our new travel shishas (which are really cool, because they are built with empty bottles) and finally smoking ( after lots of tape and good will :) ) we felt ready to...PAINT again.

Well, some might think where's the big deal in that....

for me it is still a fight against myself (and my past) to paint...it became such a big part of Sandy's and my life, something we always shared and now it seems strange and kind of wrong to me, to paint without her, knowing that there won't be such times again for us.

It hurts and haunts me but hey, it is my god damn hobby and I enjoyed it years before we met.

Through painting, I found such great friends and so many little happy moments, it would be a shame to lose it.

During that special evening I remembered some words, a very good friend of mine told me last week:

She took your heart, thats fine and will happen again and again. But don't let her take your hobby, or you'll be dead and empty.

And how right she was.

After first brush strokes the magic came back and a few hours later, two projects were some steps closer to be called finished :)

First the base of some gift, the happy owner will be my good friend Moritz, who soon will join this blog.

Some chaos dwarfy thing from Scibor....

Mainly sketching out the lights and shadows with acrylic colors, started wet in wet and had a big part of yesterdays painting time with glazing here and there.

Second the Orc still getting some attention...or more fitting his socket.

More contrast with acrylic and then the most fun part of this whole evening:

My first try outs with oil color used for different tasks then weathering.

The complete middle part of the pillar changed during the process achieving a way better blending form bright to dark I think. All wood parts were redone too.

Today we will have another painting session and I am planning to finish that orc. We'll see how much this plan is worth :)

Aaaaand here our new travel shisha kit, improved with tape, because its absolutely unusable without. 

Guess where Moritz hides in this picture...

Have a nice day everyone !

Good Morning...

Today will be a great one, i knew it when I woke.
Seems a shadow vanished over night, hard do describe it better.

I'll start with painters breakfast, some new thing I wanted to try for a long time.
During the upcoming months, my days will start with breakfast on my balcony and an hour of painting to start my days.

And here are my new toys that want to be used today:

I'll finish the acrylic work on some projects that are nearly finished to try out oil colors on them.

Have a nice day everyone

A visit at monastery Klosterbuch

Another trip with my Nikon.

I take her everywhere I go again and I really don't understand why I ever stopped this.

There are tons of photos left to sort and edit and that's what I'll do again now :)

Have a nice day, everyone!

Spring and the taste of change...

I am visiting my parents these days, something I do not very often.
Little town, none of my old friends left, and absolutely nothing to do, for the whole city seems dead to me...
still wondering when the first zombi will appear :)
It feels good to talk about things laying in the past, with different points of view today, ending old quarrels and restoring some feeling of family.

But, if there is nothing else here at Hartha, there is a lot of time to think, draw conclusions and remember who I am. The last weeks brought major changes to my life, some things that will effect my works in the near future, some that will change this blog and the idea behind it itself, and some just important to me.

I will pause my studies until October, for I need time to restore my strength, visit some doctors, find new love for architecture and get away from that big mess called university.
After 5 terms without notable breaks I just feel burnt out and thats no good feeling.
So there will be good time to paint, write, take pictures and all that other stuff I used to did.
 I will also have the time needed to update the blog, work at its design and such things.
Aaaand there will be much travelling and visiting of friends and strangers alike.
Start will be a short trip to paris in March, May will bring up a painting class with Derwish in Hamburg, afterwards I will stay a few days at a friends house.

Also the people around me changed, somehow.
My familiy decided to stand together after years of fighting and I'am sure glad I had my part in it.
Old friends turned out gone forever, others found there way back and problems, never thought solveable, are no more.
And last of this, my relationship with Sandy broke, leaving questions and disbelieve.
So it seems, the people around me show a very different spectrum than a few weeks ago.
 And so do I.

Everything feels new somehow, the sun shining again after months of rain and ice, first flowers I didn't notice last year, small things, that make me smile again.

I am curious for the future and feel more alive than I can remember.

Last big change will be at this blog itself:
I am planning on finishing the design during the next weeks, but there are other things then style.
I am happy to welcome a new member (who will introduce himself after his last exam), someone I shared the last 5 terms with.
We bled together when there was no sleep, he helped me out when there was no food or money, we did projects at university together and became very close friends.
I sure wouldn't be the person I am, if not for him.
Together we decided to do something new, a big project to grow with and it will be our own studio.
Sharing our workspace, our time and our knowledge there should be tons of creativity.
So the (T)Raumschmiede will get a very real place to live and our blog will be an insight to this realm of madness...
Our doors will be opened for friends, strangers met at some bar and freaks who stumble into our lifes, that want to share their arts.
With easels, workbench, all kinds of colors, papers and rubbish there will always be the possibility to learn something new, try outs at new materials and mediums...and we will share pictures and tutorials based on that meetings...
So there is big stuff around the corner and I can't wait to get started.
With the chapter of my old life closed, the new one calls and wants to be written.