8 Oct 2010

Wildkogel Workshop: Looking back

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I’m back home and much faster back to daily buisiness than I like. Looking back I can see why it were special days. First of all, when you take the cable car up the mountain, your everyday life stays down in the valley and it doesn’t take long till you feel comfy up there. The title of the workshop »Landscape in the light« was promptly delivered by the weather. It is indescribable to see the sunrise and the others must have felt the same, because nearly everyone rose at 6 a.m to be there.The only thing that bothered me a bit is that naturally, as the workshop instructur, I didn’t find as much time to paint as I would have liked.

Blick zum Larmkogel, Pastell, 15×17cm,
2010 © Astrid Volquardsen

Skizzenbuch,
2010 © Astrid Volquardsen

One thing is for sure: We’re coming back and are planning a new workshop for 2012.

Skizzenbuch
2010 © Astrid Volquardsen

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5 Oct 2010

Wildkogel: Early Morning

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Morgenlicht in den Alpen

2010 © Astrid Volquardsen

These past days the weather was really fascinating. My favourite time was in the morning twilight, when the sun hasn’t light up the mountains and the village lights can be seen in the morning fog.

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4 Oct 2010

Wildkogel: Students works

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For my work sketching is very important and at the beginning of the workshop the students learned to use a sketchbook. In their works it shows that they actually had looked at what they were painting and that they simply didn’t use a photograph.

Pastell, 21×24cm
Astrid Schmidtner,© 2010

Hüttentalkopf, Pastell, 21×28 cm
© 2010, Claus Schünemann

Pastell, 28×21cm

© 2010, Monica Struve-Hilmer

Pastell, 21×24cm
© 2010, Petra Schmidt

Above you can see some of the students works. The scepticism towards a sketchbook has disappeared and leads sometimes to funny pieces of conversations:
Petra. (happy):« I even started coloring my sketches.«
Klaus: »And your face too!«

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3 Oct 2010

Wildkogel: Working athmosphere

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Mittagspause auf der Terrasse, direkt vor unserem Atelier

2010, © Astrid Volquardsen

Unser Atelier, man beachte den Blick nach draußen

2010, © Astrid Volquardsen

Petra skizziert in der Abendstimmung

2010, © Astrid Volquardsen

The weather is really nice and only the mornings are cold. We got up at 6.00 a.m. to watch the sunrise and started with some sketches.
Today it was so warm, that we could have our lunch break outside, in front of our studio.
The group harmonises very well and together with the environment it turns out to be an exceptional working athmosphere.

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2 Oct 2010

Wildkogel: Sunrise

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Blick zum Raben-Kogel, Pastell, 15×20cm,

2010 © Astrid Volquardsen

The perception is running high these days. I woke up at 5 a.m. and one look out of the window promised a beautiful sunrise. We put on warm clothes, took the easel and at half past five we were ready. We had a free view to the summits of the alps, but the clouds blocked the view into the valleys. Only in some spare moments we could see the lights of the villages through the cloud cover.

It is challenging to paint in the twilight. I could see quite well on my paper, but I could only guess what pastel stick I picked, because my pastelbox was still in the shadow. So it’s kind of true when Richard Mckinley stretches the importance of a working order in your pastel box.

The colors weren’t all right, but the light was changing so fast, so that I sticked to the rule to get the values right.

I think, this was one of my best plein air experiences I had ever had.

2010, © Astrid Volquardsen

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1 Oct 2010

Wildkogel

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© Astrid Volquardsen

© Astrid Volquardsen

© Astrid Volquardsen

We arrived at the Wildkogel hut in Austria in the Kitzbühler Alps. The mountains are covered in clouds, but sometimes the sun shows through and we are getting all excited. We will start tomorrow and half of the attendents have already arrived. And what do pastel artists talk about? Pastels, materials, pigments…

From Our studio we can look straight to the Apls. So cooool…

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