Versione 2

Jetzt mit rendering, layers und masking... uffa :)

My birthday present

I finally got myself a birthday present. It is a Wacom Bamboo grafical pad, which is basically a pen which you can use like the mouse but then it's much more acurate and you can actually paint on the screen! Here's my first trial made with Photoshop.

House

A house by night. Em... :P

Paint.net

Tonight I tried another paint program, trying to create a room with an atmosphere. This is what came out of it. I figured out how to use several layers now, but I'm still nowhere near to what I can do with real paint and theoretically with a good paint program you can get even better...

Maybe this picture will remind you of an adventure game. I recently played one that was short but really well done: What makes you tick.

Twisted Brush

So today I had some time to play around with a software called "Twisted Brush" and this is what came out. It looks a bit like a mixture of my cat Momo (face and body) and my cat Pedro (eyes).

Arcumeggia

Ecco, ein Bild von den Bildern in Arcumeggia. Es sind eigentlich Fresken und sie hängen in dem Dorf wie in einer riesigen Galerie. Ich mag keine Museen und bin von der Idee begeistert, obwohl ich erst im Nachhinein gesehen habe, welche Mühe sich die Künstler gegeben haben, die Bilder auch in die Wände zu integrieren. Im Moment gibt es einen Lehrgang für ausgewählte Schüler aus ganz Italien, die dort die Kunst der Fresken erlernen.

Back in 97

When I was at high school I did this one. You have to click on it to see it right. It consists of a myriad of little black lines that I did with black ink. The image is from a book of photography. Back then I still dreamed of studying art and when the art academy at Muenster rejected my application, I was really down. But now I'm thinking what would I have done after having studied art? Now, years later it turns out that having studied German was a great asset.

Did I mention yet

that I like to paint? Lately I haven't painted a lot but I wanted to show you some of my pics. This is one I did with water color. I had a purple-yellow phase when I did this. Last winter I did another painting of the village in the mountain (Vigera) where we like to go for a vacation and I still used some purple in that picture but my method has already changed. Even for me painting is always an adventure. I never know which colors or style I will use until they're on the paper. For instance the painting of Vigera was a lot more placative than anything I had done so far.