Neuschwanstein Castle Watercolor Painting | Experimental Germany Journey Artwork Inspired by Bavaria

For this portray of Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria, Germany, I had a loopy thought.

I took the unique {photograph} and made three copies. Then I stretched two of them vertically on the Y-axis and sliced the photographs aside earlier than reassembling them right into a single composition. I didn’t need the sections to line up completely. In truth, I needed the other.

My aim was to create a fractured picture that felt extra like reminiscence than actuality.

When I take into consideration journey, I don’t keep in mind occasions in a neat chronological order. I keep in mind items.

The German bus driver leaving late vacationers behind in Garmisch.

(Word of recommendation: don’t be late for a German bus. I like Germany as a result of issues truly work there.)

The impossibly lengthy Schlange (line) overlooking the well-known viewpoint of Neuschwanstein Castle. We solely had a number of hours, and I had already realized my lesson about bus schedules, so standing in line wasn’t an choice.

The lovely waterfall hike we found as a result of we skipped that line.

A church we handed on the bus journey into city. A implausible {photograph} that I by no means received as a result of the bus was shifting.

Arrgh.

I visited Germany with my son Rocco a number of years in the past. We had been learning German for years earlier than the journey, and it was our first actual alternative to make use of the language. To our shock, nearly everybody was prepared to talk German with us. With the exception of 1 waitress in Munich, no one instantly switched to English.

Maybe we had been lastly adequate to not offend anybody.

Or possibly they had been simply being well mannered.

When I create a portray, all of these reminiscences turn into hooked up to the picture. The paintings isn’t simply concerning the {photograph}. It turns into a set of experiences, conversations, errors, successes, and moments that occurred earlier than and after the shutter clicked.

That’s one motive I don’t take pleasure in fee work very a lot.

Commissioned work could also be significant to the shopper, however they don’t carry the identical private historical past for me. I paint as a result of I need to revisit locations, reminiscences, and experiences. The portray turns into half journey journal, half experiment, and half memento.

Each part of this watercolor was painted individually utilizing completely different shade mixtures and methods. The problem was sustaining values much like the unique {photograph} whereas permitting every panel to develop its personal character.

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Paintings like this are an train in management and chaos on the similar time.

The consequence jogs my memory of that hectic day in Bavaria: buses that imply enterprise, missed images, mountain hikes, German conversations, citadel viewpoints, and fragments of reminiscences that by no means fairly line up completely.

One last word.

When the tour workers tried to place us on the English-speaking bus, there was completely no likelihood that was occurring.

No method Jose!

We had spent years attempting to be taught German. We had been using on the German bus.

Painting of church in San Juan, Puerto Rico utilizing an analogous method.

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