Month: July 2014

  • More Gnomes!

    The research is coming to an end, I finished the lineart, printed it on a bigger paper and I am now ready for the painting process. Here are some more gnomes, full figure this time. I settled for a 2,5 – 3 heads tall. The last picture is the lineart which I drew in a A5 sized area. Leaving a space around the illustration for perspective lines and other marks is a neat idea I learned from the process of the artist James Gurney. Keeps the lines out of the way and after I draw them I don’t need to worry anymore about finding vanishing points drawn at the other side of the desk!

    Gnomes-size-comparison

    Gnomes-figures

    Gnomes-of-knordac-lineart

  • Schrammel Klang Festival in Litschau

    This weekend, the beautiful Herrensee lake in lower Austria was filled with music, light and people. Litschau, Austria’s northernmost city, is the birthplace of the traditional “Schrammel” music. In July, the area surrounding the Herrensee and the Herrensee theatre serves as the location for three days of Austrian folk music, sometimes conventional and occasionally eccentric.

    More information here: www.schrammelklang.at

    I was invited there by my friend and fellow musician Michael Eipeldauer, who was displaying and selling his guitars at the festival.  He is currently the only person in Vienna who, not only restores, but also displays the traditional Kontra-Guitars in his music shop, where musicians can try them out. His workshop is also there, and of course a respectable amount of awesome classic, acoustic and electric guitars as well!

    More information here: www.gitarrenwerkstatt.at

    Some sketches from my stay there: