This happens...

when you try to paint like Francis Bacon and Caravaggio at one time. It`s up to you to decide which one should be the Italian and which one the English.

india ink on paper

"small ink tree" - blown by my breath

Sick of drawing? Looking for some inspiration? What about doing a new experiment. Blob a drop of ink on a sheet of paper and start to blow it across the paper till you like what you see. Try to change directions turning the paper or change the pressure and the angle from which you are blowing to add new branches.

Are we done here? Of course not! As you can see the picture below there`s a lot more possible than painting/ blowing simple trees. You can combine different techniques, like colorizing the picture by using india ink and many more.

This example shows a combination of these techniques. It`s painted in tempera and india ink and in the end I used this "blow me away"- technique to add a little bit visual grip.

I hope you like it. May be you`re the next one blowing away your ink jerry cans. So, get started!

Aren`t we sometimes like this little guy? Not really able to break out. Just imagine your shadow could show your temporary emotions.

I absolutely don`t know what went through my mind when I did this india ink painting. I found it yesterday in my 1997 sketchbook. I´m just surprised like any other visitor of my blog.

A mask or a human being, who knows if not the artist himself. 

india ink, tempera and ball-pen

It`s all about setting the right contrasts.

I usually use sketchbooks in A4 but when I go on a trip I take this small A6 sketchbook with me. It has a very bad quality and painting is hardly possible but I have allready almost ten of them and I keep on constantly filling them up. It happens to me when I thumb through this collection of pictures that I see a drawing and I can`t remember why I found it so important to draw it.

Horses !

weird dude !

I just gave my fancy full scope. He seems to be some kind of a scientist. 

I`m not really into cars but sometimes they have interesting shapes.