Faith Dance Art

Liberation Dance – Acrylic & Oil Painting

Liberation Dance - Acrylic & Oil Painting This mixed media painting is part of the series "Dance of the Trees". It shows a tree which is half tree, half dancer emerging from the tree trunk. Some of the branches still try to... Weiterlesen

LKS Advanced Course 2

LKS Advanced Course 2 The fourth compulsory course of my art study at the Leonardo Kunstakademie Salzburg was all about drawing the human body, with a lot of act and portrait drawing. Apart from the theoretical introduction, we practiced by copying some... Weiterlesen

LKS Advanced Course 1 Homework

LKS Advanced Course 1 Homework As before, so also this time - after the Advanced Course 1 we received a list of assignments as homework to be painted at home until the next compulsory course. On the first day of the next... Weiterlesen

Life and Death – Acrylic Painting

Life and Death - Acrylic Painting This acrylic painting is much larger than all my previous paintings - it is 120 x 100 cm (48 x 40 in). I did it during a LKS class on large-scale paintings. Even transporting the big... Weiterlesen

Mattsee Lake View – Aquarell Painting

Mattsee Lake View - Aquarell Painting Here is another painting from Mattsee near Salzburg where I study at the Leonardo Art Academy, as a follow-up to the last post. This time the painting is done with Aquarell paint (watercolor) and... Weiterlesen

Schloss Mattsee – Gouache Painting

Schloss Mattsee - Gouache Painting High time that I used one of my photos from Mattsee to paint. When I am in Mattsee, I spend most of my time under the roof of this castle with very little time for anything else... Weiterlesen

Tree Explosion – Acrylic Painting

Tree Explosion - Acrylic Painting This painting has been through a lot of revisions. During one of my art classes, I tried to apply a new technique but missed one small detail. So, things did not work out as planned... Weiterlesen

Dancing Birch Self-portrait – Gouache Painting

Dancing Trees My upcoming exhibition has the title "The Dance of Trees" and as a result, I tried different ways to express the moving character of trees. Dancing Birch Self-portrait This painting of a birch that dances started out as... Weiterlesen

Surrealism and Magic Realism today.

Surrealism and Magic Realism today. At the end of July 2014, I participated in another elective seminar as part of my art study program. The topic was Surrealism and Magic Realism. I found both art styles highly fascinating. The course... Weiterlesen

Large format paintings and their potential.

Large format paintings and their potential. In July 2014 I participated in a course about "Large format paintings and their potential" at the Leonardo Kunstakademie Salzburg (Leonardo Art Academy Salzburg). This was one of the elective courses as part of my art... Weiterlesen

LKS Advanced Course 1

LKS Advanced Course 1 After two basic classes,  came the first advanced class, which introduced us to acrylic, gouache, tempera and oil paint. And of course, there was more theoretical teaching about material theory and art history. [ngg_images source="galleries" container_ids="96"... Weiterlesen

LKS Basic Course 2 Homework

LKS Basic Course 2 Homework Again we got a long list of instructions for the homework to be done until the next course. These included some reproductions of famous painters. Several of these paintings have already sold. [ngg_images source="galleries" container_ids="90" display_type="photocrati-nextgen_pro_thumbnail_grid"... Weiterlesen

Van Gogh and new series

Van Gogh and new series Due to the homework, I do for my art studies, I will have to paint several pictures of the "Old Masters". So far I did not do this very often, because it goes against my... Weiterlesen

LKS Basic Course 2

LKS Basic Course 2 The second class of the two-year study program at Leonardo Art Academy introduced us to color theory, watercolor painting (aquarell), art history and material knowledge. [ngg_images source="galleries" container_ids="88" exclusions="1933,1932" display_type="photocrati-nextgen_pro_thumbnail_grid" override_thumbnail_settings="0" thumbnail_width="200" thumbnail_height="200" thumbnail_crop="0" images_per_page="20" border_size="0" border_color="#eeeeee" spacing="2"... Weiterlesen

Room With a View – Pencil Drawing

This is my living room, nicely tidied up so that I have fewer details to work on, drawn as a simple line drawing with a pencil. It's my last piece of homework for the art academy - a room with... Weiterlesen