Painting Tea Light Holder
Back to painting! Oh and happy holidays! Anyway, as I wrote in my last entry I am updating this blog only sporadically. To keep up to date with my newest projects, please follow me on my instagram. But here my latest painting project (from 2 days ago). A tea light holder for my grandma. As usual I used acrylics. The making of video is further down. :)
Skateboard Art Group Exhibition
Finally uploaded all the pics from the skateboard group exhibition which took place in May in Berlin (check last post).
I also would like to share a lil progress video of me painting the board (scroll down). Please make sure to also check out my friend Kamil´s documentation of the show who organized the whole thing.
Pic of me by Kamil.
Skateboard Exhibition May 5th
I will take part in a little skateboard group show this friday May 5th. It will take place in the bar "Das Gift" in Berlin-Neukölln until May 7th. See attached flyer done by Silvia Guizan. I am still working on the skateboard and hope it will turn out the way I want to. I will film the process and make a little video after the exhibition.
Painting Easter eggs 2016
Hi everyone, it has been ages since my last blog post. I feel bad. It makes probably more sense to also follow me on instagram since I update there a bit more frequently.
Painting Longboard
A few weeks ago a friend asked me if I wanted to join an art project. It's a project by Barak Rom from Israel who builds special longboards for artists to paint. He came to visit Berlin and we (+ 6 other artist) met in the bar without a name in Neukölln. Each of us got a different design to put our
Painting Easter Eggs 2015
Late as usual, my Easter 2015 entry; the once a year-painting-eggs-weekend at my family's place (on the beautiful countryside). Everyone who is visiting is asked to paint an egg or bring a painted one that can be added to the collection. This "event" is accompanied by a glas of wine, audiobooks/music, "Tatort", conversations. This year my eggs were inspired by Alebrije art (less or more). I have to admit I ruined all the brushes. You know.....blame them DETAILS.
Easter Eggs #2
Belated entry on our traditional familiy Easter egg painting. It was sunny, a bit of wind, no snow and a few wild rabbits were running over the grassland. All in all a very pleasant day somewhere on the countryside. I wonder why I only do this once a year. I can recommend to do it monthly. Use anything (sharpies, watercolors, acrylics, chocolate) to pimp the eggs. And painting in a group...is even better. Except blowing the eggs out sucks, it´s....ugh. It´s a saxophonist´s job. On the other hand: lots of omelet.
Matryoshka#1
I painted my first Matryoshka batch! Before I could have a good look I gave them away as a Christmas present. So I am left with these photos. I am not very happy with the varnish. It doesn´t dry as fast as it should. The surface of the object feels a bit sticky, even after a few days, which is too long. I experimented with different temperatures and made sure to have a thin coating...but not much changed. I need something that ist dry as a bone within 24 hours the latest. But I am too lazy, still, to google for insight.
Easter Eggs
Hi hi. Near Hamburg. Sitting at the wooden table, looking out the window. It still doesn't feel like spring but at least the sun was shining today, forcing the snow to melt a little. I come here every Easter to enjoy my dad's cooking and to paint Easter eggs with Michaela and the kids (actually teenagers now).
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Christmas. I love DIY presents but this time nobody got anything handmade from me. I didn´t send out greeting cards, didn´t hear a single Christmas song or cared much about it at all. It was mainly because my new job kept me busy and I decided to spend may spare free time with reading suspense thrillers and falling to bed early. I also re-watched a bunch of Monty Python episodes and laughed myself blissful. Now that December is over and things are calming down, I can go back to see my friends, my Xbox and my brushes more often ;).
Push
"Drive" soundtrack is on. I bought it instantly after watching the movie. I think it was the first time (since I was a teenager?) that I went to sleep with earphones in my ears. Here is a painting on different layers. I have not much to say about it except that I did something similar before with scribbles. You can see it here.
Clay Owl
Two eyes at work. One is watching an episode of "Mad Men" while the other one is setting up this entry. I am tempted to gossip about Peter Campbell but I should stay focused and babble about my clay experience. If feels like the last time I put hands on this stuff was 9400 BC. I gave it another try simply because the package said "ready-to-use-water-based-modelling-clay" and "air-drying". No baking. They even had clay for the microwave. Sounded as though even I could do it. It took a couple of attempts before it started to look like a bird instead of a squeezed alien. Tools were a toothpick and my hands. I stored the rest of the clay in the fridge, next to the green pepper and my polaroid films. That´s all there will be for dinner if I don´t go grocery shopping soon.
Redbird
It almost took me longer to set this entry up than painting the bird. Some problems with inserting images. Oh Wordpress, why art thou this weird sometimes? And whenever it seems that I have solved a problem successfully and have a "hurray" and "clapclap" moment, then, of course, something else doesn´t work. Without wp-support forums I would have probably jumped out of the window, long time ago. Anyway, here is the red bird I painted yesterday to relax while listening to audio tapes ("Die Drei Fragezeichen"). A mix of ink and acrylics on cardboard.
Bird Journals
Painting my TV is in the making. It´s already primed and sits on my kitchen table waiting to be pimped. In the meantime I took care of the journals. The little one I use to store polaroid negatives on the go. It´s full of pages covered in dried chemicals between a few pages of lousy sketches and random thoughts. The big one has been lying in my drawer for two years. I still don´t know what the heck I could use it for. Maybe to collect awesome muffin recipes? But I don´t love muffins. I don´t even have baking dishes.
First part. Priming the parts I want to paint. In this blank state I left them to nap on the table for a few days. The sight calmed me down and I almost thought that maybe it´s already perfect like this.
Pen stand made of toilet rolls
My drawing pens usually lie all over the place and often when I grab one nearby it´s dried out. Don´t we hate that. So I cleaned up a bit and thought about getting some pen stands as well. I´ve already painted a couple of toilet rolls which should do the trick. I am a little clumsy when it comes to handicrafts but as long as I only have to glue 2 pieces together: I can do it!
Lost and found
Some have asked me why I have chosen the name "ejaculesc" for my website, which I have even troubles to pronounce when people ask me for the URL. Not to mention all the spam comments I have to disapprove. I feel this painting is a good answer. I recently found it when I visited my dad over the weekend. I painted it about 5 years ago. It was a nice suprise because I have somewhat forgotten about it´s existence. But I remember it was one of first paintings I had done after a very long break of not touching a brush or a pen. It´s also interesting to see how I was using these organic elements already back then, even much stronger than in my current works. But most of all I am glad I still like what I did.
My Deer
Painting of a drawing I once made. Acrylics on canvas.
Painted Bottles Video
I recently painted some coca cola bottles. Here is the making-of video <--- click to watch on VIMEO
For Billy
Acrylics on matchboxes. B-Day present for Billy. She loves rabbits.