H Schlagen

45 twisted customers.

10. December 2019 by H Schlagen

Categories: Work • Tags: aida, buy, desire, dream, hollywood

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Der Narr.

8. December 2019 by H Schlagen

Going through the archives: About 1980. The first of a serie of the great arcana “The fool”

Categories: Work • Tags: arcana, fool, tarot

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The lighthouse keeper.

8. December 2019 by H Schlagen

Categories: My Blakean Year • Tags: keeper, lighthouse, saturn 5

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2 Alchemisten und die Orakel.

7. December 2019 by H Schlagen

Categories: My Blakean Year • Tags: alchemy, oracle

Woyzeck.

6. December 2019 by H Schlagen

Do you know the feeling to be an actor on stage performing a drama but missing the crucial turning point?

Categories: My Blakean Year • Tags: drama, stage, turning point, woyzeck

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Work in progress .. “Woyzeck.”

4. December 2019 by H Schlagen

Reworking an older painting. It*s a scene showing the main characters of the drama “Woyzeck” from Georg Büchner. Main theme is the dependence of Woyzeck on authorities, leading to loosing his lover, jealousy and murder. We see Woyzeck himself here, eating peas while taking part in an experiment of a ruthless physician who let*s him eating peas as the only food.

Categories: My Blakean Year • Tags: büchner, drama, food, peas, woyzeck

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Sprachlos.

3. December 2019 by H Schlagen

Categories: My Blakean Year • Tags: identity, inside, selfie

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Work finished: “Im Hyperraum.”

3. December 2019 by H Schlagen

Just finished. Oil and gouache on canvas 120 x 160 cm. It*s always a surprise when getting the feeling everything is ready. I did not expect the end so soon. It happens almost always this way. ,

Categories: My Blakean Year • Tags: fiction, hyperspace, pulp fiction, science fiction

Work in progress …

1. December 2019 by H Schlagen

One of the siblings, the sister. She is looking at you while her younger brother is fascinated by the little soldier. the moment the siblings are discovered by someone?

Categories: My Blakean Year • Tags: brother, discover, red hair, sibling, sister

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Work in progress …

1. December 2019 by H Schlagen

Now working on the left siblings hair, hands and head. And one hand of the other one touching the neck. The underlying layer of gouache still visible on the right side of the face.

Categories: My Blakean Year • Tags: face, hair, head, sibling

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Work in progress …

30. November 2019 by H Schlagen

Working on the clothes today, adding ultramarine to the color composition. This clothing looks like an old-fashioned sailor suit. There has been an era when people have been proud of their profession. A member of a guild did wear a special kind of clothing.

Categories: My Blakean Year • Tags: clothes, guild, sailor, suit

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Work in progress …

28. November 2019 by H Schlagen

Now using goauche again to further refine the two siblings in the foreground. This technique is old-fashioned and has been used by the masters of the renaissance. It can produce a certain impression of deepness. Next step will be covering the remaining gouache-only parts of the work with a thin layer of oil color …

Categories: My Blakean Year • Tags: curls, goauche, hair, hairstyle, renaissance, siblings