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Abstract Painting

Traditional Painting

  • Nov 9
  • Germany
  • Deviant for 13 years
My Bio

That's not me, but it might be ...

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Living in Stuttgart, Germany I‘m a photographer „en passant“, painter and not a professional artist.  I‘m just in it for fun, but nevertheless it‘s an important part of my life. My main profession is quite a different kind of art: Dealing with tax-law (more on the chaotic side of life).



Photography



See it, take it and then play.

The pictures are mostly spontaneous finds during walks in my hometown (accompanied with a dog who let you wait and see) or travelling around. The world is full of wonderful details which are quite often in form and colour pieces of art by themselves. These pieces of cut out reality are often abstracted tiny parts of a bigger structure which open the view to a totally new story of the original thing. That is what I call playing with it.



On the other hand sometimes I‘m simply lucky to get a picture in a scenery with or without people which opens the phantasy to tell their own narration (That simply means: Right time, right place, click).



 Paintings



It‘s only a little bit of paint on a white empty surface, that means everything is possible.



In recent years I mostly do study’s of faces ( you may call it portraits). It‘s also about stories or as I will call it: What’s behind the eyes? This sort of painting needs also the look for the details, so in the end it‘s a different technique but mostly the same approach as in my photographs.



But sometimes, when I was too much fixed on details I need big paintings with no thought, only colour and nothing else but colour ...


Favourite Visual Artist
The world is full of them.
Favourite Movies
I‘m nostalgic: Casablanca with Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart
Favourite Bands / Musical Artists
Blues and jazzy
Favourite Books
Too many, my home is full of them.
Tools of the Trade
iPhone, if nothing else is at hand. Aside this: Richo GR, Pentax SLR cameras, Lightroom, acrylics, brushes and fingers …
Other Interests
Writing Haikus, but I‘m German, so let‘s forget about it.

DD-Day XIV

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Thanks for this Daily Deviation and your interest. For me, flowers, in their color and structure, represent the pure beauty of nature. It is particularly through the isolation of details and the resulting abstraction that I believe it is possible to elevate their existence beyond everyday perception. Below are some other attempts to achieve this. But since there is of course also the risk of getting lost in the pure intoxication of color, it is always sensible for me to consciously refrain from using it and to let the pure structure of the image speak for itself… Thanks for reading and have a nice day!
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DD-Day XIII

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Thanks for this DD and your interest! Last September I visited Frankfurt for a short trip. On a sunny afternoon I had time for a walk in the old town. What I found was a lot of architectural patterns. As I only had my iPhone with me must this be enough (with a little post-processing in Lightroom). So have a look to some other pictures which arose during this walk …
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DD-Day XII

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Thanks for this DD and your interest! Well you want to know the story behind this picture? Last year I visited the Nolde-Museum in the northern part of Germany near the danish border. It’s a fantastic place to see the paintings of Emil Nolde in the house where he lived. The beautiful garden with the flowers he used to paint. The inspiring landscape in a little bit of nowhere. The clouds before the upcoming storm. But beside the world of Emil Nolde you are able to find in this recently renovated house little colourful details in the architecture which can give you the basics for the play to create an abstraction from the original object. You only have to see it in a different way. It is still the same object, but it is also something new you haven’t seen in it before. So use your imagination und have a look to some other abstractions of this beautiful place:
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Corona-Paintings

If you can‘t go out, just take a white canvas ...

CP #1

 ^ CP #1 - Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 60 cm

CP # 2

^ CP #2 - Acrylic on canvas board, 60 x 80 cm

CP #3

^ CP #3 -  Acrylic on canvas, 130 x 70 cm

2020-06 (70 X 60)

^ CP #4 Acrylic on canvas board, 70 x 60 cm

2020-07 (60 X 80) berarbeitet 2023

^ CP #5 Acrylics on canvas board, 60 x 80 cm

2020-09 (60 X 60)

^ CP#6 Acrylics on canvas board 60 x 60 cm

2020-11 (60 X  80)

^ CP #8 Acrylics on board 60 x 80 cm

CP #9 - Second Thoughts

^ CP #9 Acrylic on canvas board 60 x 70 cm

2021-02 (60 X 80)

^ CP #10 Acrylic on board 60 x 80 cm

2021-03 (60 X 60)

^ CP #11 Acrylic on canvas board 60 x 60 cm

2021-04 (50 X 70) 2

^CP # 12 Acrylic on canvas 50 x 70 cm

Flowerportraits

K03c8378 2

^ Portrait of an Iris

R0015293-2

^ Rainy Day Dream Away

White Flames

^ White Flames

R3000317

^ The Untouchable

R0013676-2

^ Different Beauty

K03a2901

^ The Lily

Unending Red

^ Unending Red

K03b5127

^ Lightsearcher

K20 0317

^ Inner Secret

K03a8913-2

^ Portrait of a Lily

K03c1592-2

^ Protection

Unconditionally

^ Unconditionally

Kp010394 2

^ Ranunculus

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t h a n k . y o u . f o r . f a v i n g . Thomas:woohoo:

Absolutely my pleasure José. :wave:

O Happy Day ! Alles Gute !!!