A watercolour by and with Marina Abramova Up to now, people tend to believe that watercolours suit just landscape and flower painting particularly well. Today I will paint an excavator to demonstrate that watercolour painting offers far more possibilities. And don’t be afraid, this will be anything but technical drawing where every detail has to…
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Tobias Sylvester Vierneisel combines different types of paper, cutters, syringes and computer programs to create graphical art. Tobias is a graphic designer, artist and inventor of the painting technique Dotting. The current guest blog post is from his blog ‚Farbtunnel‘. Most of his paperart are created by using analog tools. In the following article he…
moreHahnemühle´s 2018 Calendar Painting Competition – Shortlist for a “Maritime World” Rolling waves, majestic sea animals, rural coastal landscapes and colourful beach life … Everything that is classically nautical can be found in our exclusive 2018 Hahnemühle FineArt Calendar. We therefore proudly present the video of shortlisted calendar paintings. Thank you to ALL participants who took…
more“It was a great pleasure for me to test the paper in advance and I can imagine, to work with the paper permanently. I prefer it to other papers I’ve used so far.” Ewa Ludwiczak, painter, about a new hot pressed watercolour paper by Hahnemühle. Click for more information about the paper which will be…
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Alexa Dilla, painter on board of cruise ships, author and lecturer, made a stop-over at our paper mill and had been impressed by process of artist paper making that she likes so much. Read her guest contribution about her visit to the oldest German artists’ paper factory. “An opportunity I hoped to be offered for…
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The October motif of Hahnemühle’s art calendar 2016 has been contributed by Dr. Sabine Waldmann-Brun. The artwork from the painting contest was submitted under the motto “Nature in the City”. The artist tells us in our series “From the Studio” how her painting was made. “Technique and paper: Watercolour, Gouache and coloured ink on Mould-made…
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Kudalayya Hiremath from India on his July motive in Hahnemühle´s art calendar 2016 ” Greenary on Terrace”: I have done many city landscapes so far. The greenery in a watercolour cityscape makes it striking. When I heard about the calendar contest with the topic ‘Nature in city’, the memories of my earlier cityscapes came back…
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Karin Kuthe reports in the following article about her experiences with digital reproductions of her traditionally painted pictures. The highly experienced artist works in the techniques of watercolour, acrylic and pastel on traditional artist papers from Hahnemühle. For a few years she has reproduced her originals on Hahnemühle Digital FineArt papers as inkjet prints. She…
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Coffee on cards – art with the brown caffeinated beverage by Janaina Santos on Hahnemühle Watercolour postacards. We have found the artist from Brazil and her cute painted love stories “Coffeelings AmarAmor” on Instagram hashtagged #Hahnemuehle. Now we are pleased to present a guest article by her.
written by Andrew Banks, Urban Sketchers Chicago group administrator and Blog Contributor As an offshoot of the global Urban Sketchers organization the Urban Sketchers Chicago held the second Chicago Sketch Seminar on 11 and 12 July, 2015 at the Palette and Chisel Academy of Fine Arts and the surrounding Gold Coast neighborhood. This two day…
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