I hear Voices

....I really do. My cat's voices that are. Never thought such a little creature could make so many different sounds. If there ever was a glossary about what each of them means I would so buy it.
Speaking of my cat, it's her birthday today and no I didn't plan to upload my new piece of art exactly on this day. It just happened that I remembered it was her 3rd birthday (in my defence I have to say I only have her for 2 month now).

So yeah the most important thing is I am finally, finally finished with this new painting. Took me ages and in between I wanted to abandon it completely. I was aiming for a slightly different format here & as you see more than one protagonist.

Next thing I'm planning is to "recycle" some old paintings I never really finished (going throuh old files can be really surprising) and then I can't wait to start working on my working station (two big monitors) instead of my small laptop.
Ohhh and of course my website design. I do have an idea, just no IDEA when I'll have the time to work on it *sighs* and really everyone uses awesome flash stuff on their websites and I feel so oldschool so rely on CSS and html only haha XD. I guess I kind of missed the train.

Anyway, hope you're all well.
Sending all my hopes & prayers to the people in Japan!

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Poesie

Heya,

again I didn't update as much as I promised. Maybe I just shouldn't apologize anymore and promise to be better since that won't happen anyway :)
Again a lot of happened in the last weeks, I finally have my own apartement and I can't really describe how awesome it is NOT to share everything with 10 other people, how nice it is to know that no one will eat your stuff away from the fridge and how peaceful it is to sleep without someone deciding to re-decorate their room in the middle of the night (I mean seriously?).

I come back to you with a new painting called "Poesie" (german for "Poesy"). This was another experiment. So lately I like to experiment a lot with techniques etc. For the background I decided to use real watercolor paper. I scanned it and laid it over with a filter. I think it gives this digital piece the feeling of a real painting and it also adds nice overall effects. In contrast I painted the figure and other stuff over the layer with the watercolor paper. I quite like how it came out.
Also the background is referenced from a landscape painting I have hanging in my room (or had since I moved and at the moment I can't quite bring myself to put nails into the wall) because it just had the right atmosphere for what I wanted to achieve and also was painted in the style I wanted this one to be (does that sound confusing?). I find this much more intresting than to reference from photos since those old styled oil paintings have a special magic that I really like. Overall it also makes the painting look less "polished".

So I have another little experiment in my mind for my next painting, we'll see how that plays out.

For now I hope you enjoy hearing from me again ;)

kudos

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