{"id":9917,"date":"2016-04-21T11:54:28","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T09:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.hahnemuehle.com\/?p=9917"},"modified":"2016-06-03T17:21:37","modified_gmt":"2016-06-03T15:21:37","slug":"sandrabecker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.hahnemuehle.com\/en\/sandrabecker\/","title":{"rendered":"From the studio: Sandra Becker about her artwork for April in Hahnem\u00fchle&#8217;s Art Calendar 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was born in Ludwigshafen but I live and work for six years now in Siegburg near Bonn (Germany). After participating in an evening class in September 2013 painting soon became a new hobby for me. During the twelve week course I have so far only had the time to enjoy painting a few times aside from the short time I have in the evening or on weekends.\u00a0 I often struggle to bring the first colour onto the paper. It is sometimes a<!--more--> real hurdle to bring the idea of the subject that I have in my mind and implement this idea immediately onto the paper.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.hahnemuehle.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/04\/Fotovorlage-Mannheimer-Wasserturm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-9919\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.hahnemuehle.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/04\/Fotovorlage-Mannheimer-Wasserturm-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Fotovorlage Mannheimer Wasserturm\" width=\"322\" height=\"181\" \/><\/a>With my image &#8220;Mannheim Water Tower&#8221; however, it was different somehow. Amazingly this has gone relatively quick and was much easier to create. The photograph template for my painting was taken in early December 2014 when I visited my parents at home and a trip to Mannheim had been on the family\u2019s agenda. Always looking for new motifs the water tower has fascinated me right from the beginning. When I took the photo, I thought I will later elaborate a water tower with AeroColor. Just six months later when I decided to participate in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hahnemuehle.com\/en\/traditional-fineart\/painting-competition-2017.html\">Hahnem\u00fchle calendar competition<\/a> I decided to recreate this image in a different way. In the meantime, I had been attending a Saturday workshop on &#8220;watercolor and drawing with ink&#8221; and was so thrilled with it that this is now my new favorite technique. I wanted this design to be not only with watercolours, but also to bring ink into the game, as it gives an image a completely different character. For the Hahnem\u00fchle calendar contest theme &#8220;Nature in the City&#8221; the Water Tower of Mannheim and its adjacent park was the best decision.<\/p>\n<p>First I started the design with pencil on paper, making sure this time that I do not get too bogged down with a lot of little details. Then I started with the line drawing. To paint this w<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.hahnemuehle.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/04\/Skizze-Mannheimer-Wasserturm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-9920 \" src=\"http:\/\/blog.hahnemuehle.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/04\/Skizze-Mannheimer-Wasserturm-1024x846.jpg\" alt=\"Skizze Mannheimer Wasserturm\" width=\"329\" height=\"271\" \/><\/a>ay, suits me best. Sometimes I&#8217;m overwhelmed by watercolouring more than if I\u2019m investing the backbone of the image first with ink. Whoever thinks that creating an finished piece of work can easily be done in a day is wrong. I usually put the preliminary drawing aside and look at it with some distance &#8211; often with several days in between. Then later on I start to add colour.\u00a0 Even during this next step of adding colour there is no quick completion.\u00a0 Here again I\u2019m thinking about the colour intensification, how I want to create the light and shadows or if there are other things that may be missing in the details of the work. Meanwhile, I have accepted the motto &#8220;Good things come to those who wait&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>For me it was important to start with good material to prevent any disappointment that could result from using a lesser quality product. Of course you are able to create much better work when you have good working material like paints that radiate and the perfect paper selection. I had decided from the very beginning to use the Hahnem\u00fchle <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hahnemuehle.com\/en\/traditional-fineart\/hahnemuehle-artist-papers\/akademie-watercolour\/p\/Product\/show\/17\/48.html\">Britannia, 300 g, matt<\/a> paper for this work.<\/p>\n<p>Gladly I would like to thank my partner who supports me in my work and who has more faith in me than I sometimes do myself.\u00a0 Even if I am sometimes tearing out my hair during the process of creating my work I am grateful for his last observing look and comments.<\/p>\n<p>Written by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sandra.becker.710\" target=\"_blank\">Sandra Becker<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was born in Ludwigshafen but I live and work for six years now in Siegburg near Bonn (Germany). After participating in an evening class in September 2013 painting soon became a new hobby for me. 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