Today I picked Hannelore!
I had learnt the special story around this bench. Her daughter put it in memorial of her father on the top of mount Wallberg in Bavaria. How beautiful!
I started to paint the sky with acrylic colours, but after the first strokes, it did not feel right and I changed to oil paint. The interesting thing is, that I had the impulse just to paint the sky from top to bottom. Definitely it would have been so much easier with tissues in sideward strokes, as there is this color gradient. But this was no option! I counted, around 150 brush stokes per minute and it took me quite a while – so definitely more than 2000 times I stroked the sky.
… in the end, where I first had put the acrylic paint, the sky started to shine (therefore also the darker colour on the photo of the painting, not too much visible “in reality”)
On the original Hannelore’s face is quite dark, so I tried to bring in a bit more light, hoping, that I am not too far away!
Thank you, Hannelore!
<3 Susanne