Fairytales are an important part of Germany's cultural heritage and I'm sure it would be hard, to find anyone there who has never heard of Hansel and Gretel and other stories by the Brothers Grimm. Another famous one is „The Frog King“, illustrating the age old desire to find Mr. Right… or Ms. Right… depending on the perspective 😉
The essential part is of course the kiss:
I painted this back in 1988 in graphite pencil, watercolors and acrylics on reverse side of glass, and it is likely my most successful painting to date. Several people wanted it, but in the end it became part of my sisters private collection... guess she was closest to the source!
Do you have a favorite fairytale?
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Ah, so beautiful. I've always been a huge fan of Grimms tales, Little Red Ridinghood being my favorites. My mother promised to make me a red wool cape if I bring her the fabric.
On a unrelated note, have I mentioned that I shower your Hinderglas work to my sister? She was very intrigued by it and said she would ask one of her teachers about it.
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No surprise that you like Little Red Ridinghood... with the wolf and all 😉 Hm.. wonder if we might see a "red cape" post some time soon..
No, I don't remember you telling me about showing my Hinterglas work to your sister.. will be interesting what her teachers might have to say about it. Although Hinterglas is commonly known, my twist to it is pretty much unique.
On another unrelated note... I'm renovating a more than 300 year old house and hopefully in a year (or two) my bigger studio will be finished.. I might be doing some workshops then (hint hint 😉)
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Haven't bought the fabric yet, so might be a while :'D
OOhhh, would you PLEASE so us (read: ME!) the house!? and progress photos!!?
Another unrelated note: how glad am I that Steemit is working, upvotes and comments going through with the first try!
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Maybe you'll find something nice in Lisbon!
The house?? 😱 Oh god no... was a ruin when we bought it. Maybe I'll show some of the more finished areas... eventually...
Ok.. one... for you 😘
Fixing an old window... the room will be my "summer studio"
Haha and yesss! Almost no longer used to everything working so smoothly!! 🤞
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I love old houses! I want to see more, it doesn’t matter that it’s in ruins, makes it all the more interesting.
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Wow... looks like you are getting up early! Did the storm hit you too in Finland? First thing I did today was to check if the roof was still there in one piece...
Have a few pics on my fb account. Not that I spend much time there, but you can share things with a select group. Do you have an account there? Maybe you'd like to be (fb) friends..
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Good morning! :) This is not really that early for me, I get up 4.45am on most days for work. No storms here, not that I know of at least.
Sorry, I don't use facebook.
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4.45am for work??? OK, I'll report that to Amnesty International!!
Yeah, fb sucks anyways. Its going to be interesting how long they will keep their position in the market.
Storm was pretty rough, even for us here in the south. Northern Germany got hit pretty bad, that's why I was wondering how it was for you. How far are you from the coast?
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Yeah, i bet it is always nice to have source by your side :)
Ok, so the kiss is the culmination and the peak of the story :) I just wonder why did she close the eyes before kissing the frog and the frog just did the opposite. Very "light" look and i love that vignetting towards the edges. And much more pastel tones than usual. Greenish froggish :) Nicely done!
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Keen observation! Of course no detail stays hidden from your professional eye.
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Such an exquisite drawing. Lovely connection can be felt between the princess and the frog. The eyes and the lips ~ And the beautiful subtlty of the white ball of energy between them. Love the graphite pencil and soft watercolour. Beautiful. 🦋
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Cordial thanks for your beautiful comment 🌼
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I love this drawing/painting of the Froschkönig, even more when I learned that it is drawn on glass ...but how? There must be some special surface preparation to be able to draw with graphite. I am well aware of traditional glass paintings "Hinterglasmalerei" and I never liked the pasty look but this is intricate, transparent and simply delightful.
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Its exactly that look you mention, which I never liked at Hinterglasmalerei and I always wanted to overcome that. Took me many years of trial and erroro and lots of experimenting. Even today, every painting is still a challenge. Some transperency and debth is what I want to achieve with this otherwise very interesting technique. Thank you for liking it.
Interesting blog you have!
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So lovely, and on glass, that is amazing.
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Thank you! I see your blog really grew nicely, will have to come back tonight after I'm finished painting!
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That's a really neat image! Brings back memories from past relationships!
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So you turned into a price!! 🤴
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Lovely as always, the closeup of the lips ready to kiss! The worst ending to the fairytale is when you kiss the frog and he stays a frog haha
Lovely day to you !
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Thank you for liking it. Haha.. yes, that happens and would be disappointing for sure 🐸... even worse, if the princess turns into a frog too!
Great day for you too!
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I love fairytales but I don’t exactly have a favorite. That frog is quite the charmer with those glossy eyes and those puckered up lips!
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Glad you like my frog. When I drew it, I just imagined how I would feel at that moment 😍
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Hahah, that’s adorable!
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Tip a hat, maestro.
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Many thanks, Sir! As I can see from your own posts, you are obviously a man of exquisite taste :-)
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Wonderful imagery! Fairytales are a great source of inspiration, aren't they? I hope to make more work inspired by them too. And inspired by your work also!
Hope you're having a great weekend.
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Thank you... yes, always liked fairytales. Still remember that huge book my grandmother had. Was very inspirational indeed :-)
Great weekend for you too!
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This is really cool - I like it very much because it sort of lets one peek behind the curtain of your creative process. I also like the challenge of the guessing game: how did he do it? Thus when you study an artist, it is essential to look at his early work, his sketches, and if available, his unfinished work etc. One of my favorites of Klimt is a unfinished piece, where he painted his subject nude, and then started (partially) dressing her. Not only does it tell me a lot about his method, but also what kind of a man he was - he had affairs with most of his models, for one thing.
BTW - my favorite fairy tale is "Rumpelstilzchen" - because I also use it as an explanation why I cannot reveal my Indian name (given to me in a sundance ceremony): "ach wie gut dass niemand weiß dass ich Rumpelstilzchen heiß" - if you know the real name of a spirit, you can control him.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_name
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Absolutely Otto, its always very interesting to study a colleagues methods and little tricks. Funny thing is, that I sometimes forget myself how I did something in the past.. Yeah, that Gustav was quite the womanizer, it seems!
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tricks - so do I. I sometimes look at my decades old stuff and wonder how the heck I did it. And then I come up with new ways. Never stop exploring. I would be bored with creating art if I was doing it by rote.
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I tried looking for the Klimt image I mentioned - finally found it:
last seen this April when I visited the Belvedere: https://digital.belvedere.at/objects/9020/die-braut
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Planing to go to the Belvedere when I'm in Vienna... I'll be sure to look for this one!
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That frog's quite excited!
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Hehe... of course he is! He's about to be kissed by a princess 💋
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I like the gritty rawness to the style. Much energy in the drawing there, I like to see sketchy work because they reveal some truth of the artist hand. And this is a true hand here. Charming piece !!!!
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Thank you for this really big compliment from a master! I refined my drawing to a point now, that I feel like going back more into such a direction again.
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It is more common than perhaps we realise that artists go back to the beginning of when we first began. It is as though we go full circle.
It is not a bad thing in my opinion. We rediscover our younger selves in a new way with a wiser head on our shoulders.
Wold love to see more work like this Reinhard : )
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Reinhard, maybe you're the best man to ask this (especially after this post).
I was in Germany in 1997. We visited a public park that had these...interactive?...displays that, when we poke a German phrase into the speaker, a certain action would occur.
For instance: one was Rapunzel. And if you said "Rapunzel, Rapunzel, lass dein haar herunter!" then a mechanical pony tail would start coming down from the window of the spire above.
Do you know the place I'm talking about? I'd LOVE to know the name as I've forgotten it after all these years. I feel like it might have been in Bremen?
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Difficult question, as there are tons of parks like that.. plus you say 20 years ago? Bremen is very possible, if it was in the north. I'm going to meet a colleague from there in about two weeks and will ask him.
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Beautiful drawing @reinhard-schmid, so well as an illustration for a fairy tales book… Here is another look at the frog prince :)
https://steemit.com/comic/@lighteye/b-c-stands-for-blockchain-jan-20-2016-frog-prince
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Haha.. funny! Thanks for sharing :-)
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Oh this is wonderful. I love everything about it -the wispy lines of graphite, the subtle build up of colours, the little splatter textures.
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Thank you so much!! Back then I still worked a lot with watercolors... a technique we both find fascinating it seems :-)
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That's is an excellent art @reinhard-schmid
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Thank you :-)
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Your work is incredible. I always enjoy your stories too. Thank you so much for being here.
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Thank you for your kind words and for taking a look :-)
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Als ich ein Kind war, hat man uns erzählt, die Prinzessin habe den Frosch küssen SOLLEN, war aber so angewidert davon, dass sie ihn an die Wand warf! DAS wär doch mal ein Motiv. :D
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Autsch! Diese Variante ist mir neu... klingt aber tatsächlich realistischer. Für mich als (Sur)realist vielleicht aber doch nicht so geeignet 🤔
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