Today, I finally took the time to paint something again, for the first time in a month. I've been so busy with moving and starting on my PhD that I didn't have the necessary rest and time at all, let alone ideas. As always when I haven't done anything for a while, I was starting to question if I could still achieve good results, and whether it would be opportune to focus more on one of acrylics or watercolors. Since my last painting with watercolors was fun, easy and a success, I was tempted to put the acrylics into the basement and concentrate on the fun and easy. But today was supposed to be another chance for acrylics, with a very nice motif I had standing around in my flat:
You know those fields where you can cut your own flowers and pay by the honor system? I happened across one of those three days ago and cut myself a marvelous sunflower. For lack of a vase, I put it into a rinsed-out beer bottle (Berliner Kindl mit Waldmeister, for those who care). The contrast was splendid and it really livens up the room. I decided to paint that, especially since I had a very asymmetric canvas left over from somewhere (aspect ratio 1:3). After painting bottle and flower, I wondered what to put in the background. Since I moved to Bonn recently (and since I got the flower here), I put the crest of the city of Bonn: Black cross on white over golden lion on red. You have to imagine the lion a little, as I was running out of daylight and just sketched it.
Overall, I'd call this painting a success as well. Working with acrylics again has been great fun. They are not as tidy and airy, but they have a strong, grippy substance that gives the picture more of a punch.
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