<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087</id><updated>2012-01-03T00:00:57.569+01:00</updated><category term='Pastel'/><category term='Sketches'/><category term='Coffee painting'/><category term='Pen and Ink'/><category term='woodprint'/><category term='Christmas'/><category term='Winter'/><category term='Photos'/><category term='Ink'/><category term='Coloured Pencils'/><category term='Norway'/><category term='birds'/><category term='Hommage á Hundertwasser'/><category term='Watercolour'/><category term='Autumn'/><category term='Pencil drawings'/><category term='Abstract'/><category term='Samhain'/><category term='Moleskine'/><category term='EDM&apos;s'/><category term='Travels'/><category term='Colours'/><category term='awards'/><category term='Journal'/><category term='Nature Journal'/><category term='illustration'/><category term='printmaking'/><category term='Recipes'/><category term='Pen in Moleskine'/><category term='woodcut'/><category term='Oktoberfest'/><category term='Munich'/><title type='text'>Time Passages</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>247</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-1303073757451053424</id><published>2010-12-22T17:54:00.008+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-03T00:00:57.573+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Merry Christmas!</title><content type='html'>&lt;style type="text/css"&gt;.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #FFFFFF; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }&lt;/style&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="flickr-frame"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/claudia1de/5282807105/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="flickr-photo" src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5168/5282807105_317911f28a.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt;&amp;nbsp;I have seen a beautiful photo at &lt;a href="http://brittarnhildshouseinthewoods.typepad.com/brittarnhilds_house_in_th/2010/12/december-22nd-towards-the-light.html"&gt;Britt-Arnhild's blog:&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt;It shows a landscape near Trondheim (I guess)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I tried to make a sketch and capture the cold, icy mood.&lt;br /&gt;I wish everybody here and all the readers of my blog a Merry Christmas and a Bright new Year 2011!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/146/989615E860B3CFB334E7F9E45CD07955.png" style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;P.S.: I have been busy with a lot of other things the last months. But I will be posting regularly again . So stay tuned.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-1303073757451053424?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/1303073757451053424/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=1303073757451053424&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/1303073757451053424'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/1303073757451053424'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2010/12/near-trondheim-i-guess.html' title='Merry Christmas!'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5168/5282807105_317911f28a_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-7513127644365195986</id><published>2010-08-27T12:05:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2010-08-27T12:11:45.216+02:00</updated><title type='text'>From my sketchbook</title><content type='html'>&lt;style type="text/css"&gt;.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #FFFFFF; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }&lt;/style&gt;&lt;div class="flickr-frame"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/claudia1de/4931199213/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4119/4931199213_51119d9f56.jpg" class="flickr-photo" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt; After some last, lazy summer days ( but constant work in the office), I show you a sketchbook entry I made while taking a walk. - I carried a very practical, totally light weigt aluminium stool with me and therefore, could draw exactly from the point of view I wanted to. I find this stool - in combination with a backpack - much more useful than these so-called "fisher chairs" where the backpack is a part of the stool (or vice versa). I know because I own one of them, too...After all, I'm a great fan of outdoor gear...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Nach den letzen  Sommertagen (mit ständiger Arbeit im Büro) veröffentliche ich heute eine Seite meines Skizzenbuchs, die ich während eines Spaziergangs zeichnete. Ich hatte einen sehr praktischen, kleinen, faltbaren Campingstuhl mit mir; so konnte ich genau von dem Blickwinkel aus malen, von dem ich wollte. Ich finde diesen Stuhl wesentlich praktischer als diese sog. "Fischerstühle", die einen integrierten Rucksack besitzen (oder umgekehrt- der Rucksack hat einen Stuhl integriert). Ich weiß das, denn ich besitze auch einen solchen...Ich bin nämlich ein großer Fan von Outdoor-Ausrüstung...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/146/989615E860B3CFB334E7F9E45CD07955.png" style="border: 0 !important; background: transparent;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-7513127644365195986?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/7513127644365195986/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=7513127644365195986&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/7513127644365195986'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/7513127644365195986'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2010/08/from-my-sketchbook.html' title='From my sketchbook'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4119/4931199213_51119d9f56_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-4866832220864626954</id><published>2010-07-20T22:34:00.010+02:00</published><updated>2010-07-23T12:42:37.564+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Val Venosta day trip</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/TElyFr1gTYI/AAAAAAAAA9k/AlMtD88wYUc/s1600/2010-07-20b.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 304px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/TElyFr1gTYI/AAAAAAAAA9k/AlMtD88wYUc/s400/2010-07-20b.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5497050262174453122" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;During our vacation in South Tyrol, we made a day trip to Schluderns in Val Venosta. Schluderns is a tiny village with a beautiful, old church and many wonderful houses and places to dream and rest. In the yards, you still can find the famous, old "Pala" pear trees. They say that in former times the physicians all over the Valley took vacations when the "Pala" pears were ripe, because then almost nobody fell ill...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Während unseres Urlaubs machten wir auch einen Tagesausflug nach Schluderns im Vinschgau. Schluderns ist eine kleine Gemeinde mit einer schönen, alten Kirche und vielen wunderbaren Häusern und romantischen Plätzen. In den Gärten wachsen immer noch die alten, berühmten Palabirn-Bäume. Früher, so sagt man, gingen die Ärzte im Vinschgau in den Urlaub, wenn diese Birnen reif waren, da dann so gut wie niemand krank wurde...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-4866832220864626954?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/4866832220864626954/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=4866832220864626954&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/4866832220864626954'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/4866832220864626954'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2010/07/val-venosta-day-trip.html' title='Val Venosta day trip'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/TElyFr1gTYI/AAAAAAAAA9k/AlMtD88wYUc/s72-c/2010-07-20b.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-3154849919676982208</id><published>2010-07-09T10:54:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2010-07-09T10:55:46.889+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Barn Sketch</title><content type='html'>&lt;style type="text/css"&gt;.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #FFFFFF; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }&lt;/style&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/claudia1de/4776260567/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4080/4776260567_cd66a0a7b0.jpg" class="flickr-photo" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt; This was the view from our window at the mountain farmstead. The roofs of the old houses -as of the barns - are all covered with shingles and stones.&lt;br /&gt;I made this quick sketch with watercolour pencils.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Das war der Blick aus unserem Fenster am Bergbauernhof. Die Dächer -sowohl der alten Gebäude, als auch der Ställe und Stadel - sind alle mit Schindeln und Steinen gedeckt.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Diese schnelle Skizze machte ich mit Aquarellstiften.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/146/989615E860B3CFB334E7F9E45CD07955.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-3154849919676982208?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/3154849919676982208/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=3154849919676982208&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/3154849919676982208'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/3154849919676982208'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2010/07/barn-sketch.html' title='Barn Sketch'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4080/4776260567_cd66a0a7b0_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-3234022867466872490</id><published>2010-07-03T11:48:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2010-07-03T11:50:14.849+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Reschen Mountain Pass</title><content type='html'>&lt;style type="text/css"&gt;.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #FFFFFF; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }&lt;/style&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/claudia1de/4756631225/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4143/4756631225_51ee92ca3c.jpg" class="flickr-photo" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;     &lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt; We startet our vacation by driving to South Tyrol via the Reschen mountain pass. The Reschen lake is artificial and buried a whole village, Graun, when in 1950 the area was flooded. Only the church steeple can be seen today and reminds of the old village of Graun. They build a new village nearby, but they say that the old inhabitants of Graun are still suffering from the loss of their homes...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Wir fuhren dieses mal über den Reschenpaß nach Südtirol. Der Reschensee ist ja ein Stausee und überflutete 1950 das alte Dorf Graun. Nur der Kirchturm ragt heute noch aus dem Wasser und erinnert an das alte Graun. Man hat in der Nähe zwar ein neues Dorf mit dem gleichen Namen errichtet, aber man sagt, daß die Leute, die im alten Graun gelebt haben, bis heute den Verlust ihrer Häuser nicht überwunden haben...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/146/989615E860B3CFB334E7F9E45CD07955.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-3234022867466872490?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/3234022867466872490/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=3234022867466872490&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/3234022867466872490'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/3234022867466872490'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2010/07/reschen-mountain-pass.html' title='Reschen Mountain Pass'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4143/4756631225_51ee92ca3c_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-9000796798186562518</id><published>2010-06-13T14:22:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2010-07-03T11:25:15.599+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Mountain Farmstead Retreat</title><content type='html'>&lt;a title="photo sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/claudia1de/4695415577/"&gt;&lt;img class="flickr-photo" alt="" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4009/4695415577_db918bd6cb.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt;We will spend the next 14 days on a mountain farmstead in the Italian Alps located near Merano. We're looking forward to hiking, drawing, eating special food, drinking fantastic wine and re-reading some of my favourite books, like: "Peter Camenzind" (Hermann Hesse), very recommendable for a vacation in the mountains, "The city of Segelfoss" (Knut Hamsun) and "The Rover" (Joseph Conrad).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Wir werden die nächsten 14 Tage auf einem Bergbauernhof in der Nähe von Meran verbringen. Wir freuen uns auf's Wandern, Zeichnen, Essen von Spezialitäten, Weintrinken und Lesen einiger unserer Lieblingsbücher wie "Peter Camenzind"(Hermann Hesse), sehr zu empfehlen, wenn man einen Bergurlaub verbringt, "Die Stadt Segelfoss" (Knut Hamsun) und "Der Freibeuter" (Joseph Conrad).&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/146/989615E860B3CFB334E7F9E45CD07955.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-9000796798186562518?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/9000796798186562518/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=9000796798186562518&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/9000796798186562518'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/9000796798186562518'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2010/06/mountain-farmstead-retreat.html' title='Mountain Farmstead Retreat'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4009/4695415577_db918bd6cb_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-6761355580878156908</id><published>2010-05-31T20:15:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2010-05-31T20:17:48.057+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Virtual Paintout May 2010</title><content type='html'>&lt;style type="text/css"&gt;.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #FFFFFF; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }&lt;/style&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/claudia1de/4656436227/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4038/4656436227_82bfa2ea12.jpg" class="flickr-photo" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;     &lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt; This is my entry for the Virtual paintout for May. It shows a house in the Czech Republic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Mein Beitrag für "The Virtual paintout" für Mai - ein Haus in der tschechischen Republik.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/146/989615E860B3CFB334E7F9E45CD07955.png" style="border: 0 !important; background: transparent;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-6761355580878156908?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/6761355580878156908/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=6761355580878156908&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/6761355580878156908'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/6761355580878156908'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2010/05/virtual-paintout-may-2010.html' title='Virtual Paintout May 2010'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4038/4656436227_82bfa2ea12_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-2538084528948507525</id><published>2010-05-06T15:24:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2010-05-06T15:26:17.060+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Apple Blossoms</title><content type='html'>&lt;style type="text/css"&gt;.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #FFFFFF; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }&lt;/style&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/claudia1de/4584107436/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4071/4584107436_2f86ba6e92.jpg" class="flickr-photo" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt; The apple trees are blooming. With their pink-white blossoms, they are one of the most beautiful signs of spring for me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Die Apfelbäume blühen wieder. Mit ihren rosa-weißen Blüten gehören sie für mich zu den schönsten Frühlingsboten überhaupt.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/146/989615E860B3CFB334E7F9E45CD07955.png" style="border: 0 !important; background: transparent;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-2538084528948507525?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/2538084528948507525/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=2538084528948507525&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/2538084528948507525'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/2538084528948507525'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2010/05/apple-blossoms.html' title='Apple Blossoms'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4071/4584107436_2f86ba6e92_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-2568768445256812482</id><published>2010-04-29T17:59:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2010-04-29T18:09:38.803+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Virtual Paintout-Islas Canarias 2</title><content type='html'>&lt;style type="text/css"&gt;.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #FFFFFF; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }&lt;/style&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/claudia1de/4563451028/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4010/4563451028_0cf1b29a6f.jpg" class="flickr-photo" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   &lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt; This is my second and last entry for the Virtual Paintout Blog, a view showing a landscape near Vega de San Mateo, Gran Canaria, Spain. - I only used the left part of the view for the painting and then created the landscape at the right side like I thought it should be. F.e., I missed out the houses in the background. I had much fun creating the textures in the foreground. I used at least three or four different layers for them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Dies ist mein zweiter und letzer Beitrag zum Virtual Paintout Blog für diesen Monat. Es zeigt eine Landschaft bei Vega de San Mateo auf Gran Canaria. - Ich verwendete nur den linken Teil des Ausblicks als Bildvorlage; den rechten Teil malte ich so, wie ich glaubte, daß er gemalt werden müßte; d.h., ich ließ die Häuser im Hintergrund komplett weg. Es machte mir sehr viel Spaß, die Texturen im Vordergrund zu gestalten. Ich verwendete mindestens drei oder vier verschiedene Lasuren dafür.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/146/989615E860B3CFB334E7F9E45CD07955.png" style="border: 0 !important; background: transparent;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-2568768445256812482?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/2568768445256812482/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=2568768445256812482&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/2568768445256812482'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/2568768445256812482'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2010/04/virtual-paintout-islas-canarias-2_29.html' title='Virtual Paintout-Islas Canarias 2'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4010/4563451028_0cf1b29a6f_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-6190272428907451355</id><published>2010-04-20T18:51:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2010-04-21T11:15:46.482+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Virtual Paintout-Islas Canarias</title><content type='html'>&lt;style type="text/css"&gt;.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #FFFFFF; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }&lt;/style&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/claudia1de/4537830981/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2784/4537830981_66c4fb9720.jpg" class="flickr-photo" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt; In April, the themes for the &lt;a href="http://virtualpaintout.blogspot.com/"&gt;virtual paintout&lt;/a&gt; are the Canary Islands in Spain. Every participant must use a view found through Google Street View as the reference for the painting or drawing. I found my motif near San Agustín, Gran Canaria.&lt;br /&gt;Although I share the opinion of some people who are sceptical regarding google street view in general, I have to admit that it can be a fantastic tool for artists.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Im April haben wir beim &lt;a href="http://virtualpaintout.blogspot.com/"&gt;Virtual Paintout Blog&lt;/a&gt; das Thema "Kanarische Inseln". Jeder Teilnehmer muß ein Motiv benutzen, das er durch Google Street View gefunden hat. Ich fand meines in der Nähe von San Agustín, Gran Canaria.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Obwohl ich die Auffassung vieler Menschen teile, die Google Street View gegenüber sehr skeptisch sind, muß ich zugeben, daß es für Künstler äußerst nützlich sein kann.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/146/989615E860B3CFB334E7F9E45CD07955.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-6190272428907451355?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/6190272428907451355/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=6190272428907451355&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/6190272428907451355'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/6190272428907451355'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2010/04/virtual-paintout-islas-canarias.html' title='Virtual Paintout-Islas Canarias'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2784/4537830981_66c4fb9720_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-9164227989385519085</id><published>2010-04-08T13:10:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2010-04-08T14:12:33.586+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Visiting Münters and Kandinskys house</title><content type='html'>&lt;style type="text/css"&gt;.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #FFFFFF; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }&lt;/style&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/claudia1de/4502535508/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2758/4502535508_d6420d6ec3.jpg" class="flickr-photo" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt; The other day, I was visiting my aunt. Together with my cousin, we made a little walk at the edge of the Alps and later, we went to Murnau and walked to the so-called "Russian house", where the painter &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriele_M%C3%BCnter"&gt;Gabriele Münter&lt;/a&gt; (you can see the little house if you follow the link) lived together with Wassily Kandinsky. - Although it is not really far away, I have never been there. The house is overlooking the town center of Murnau and I found that it is a very special place...&lt;br /&gt;As my aunt does watercolours as well, she showed me her last paintings (very well done, hopefully she will start a blog, too) and her palette and  seeing it all, I just couldn't help and made this painting, using her colours. It is a very interesting experience indeed to paint with colours from the palette of another artist. It gives insights and new inspiration. I can only recommend it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Neulich besuchte ich meine Tante. Zusammen mit meinem Cousin machten wir einen schönen Spaziergang am Rande der Alpen und später gingen wir noch nach Murnau hinein, zum sogenannten §Russen-Haus", wo  &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriele_M%C3%BCnter"&gt;Gabriele Münter&lt;/a&gt; zusammen mit Wassily Kandinsky wohnte. Obwohl der Ort nicht sehr weit weg ist, war ich noch nie dort gewesen. Das haus überschaut die Altstadt von Murnau und ich finde, daß es ein ganz spezieller Platz ist...&lt;br /&gt;Da meine Tante auch malt, zeigte sie mir ihre letzten Werke (sehr schön, hoffentlich beginnt sie auch bald einen blog) und ihre Palette, und als ich das alles sah, konnte ich nicht anders als dieses schnelle Bild malen, mit ihren Farben. Es ist eine sehr interessante Erfahrung, mit den Farben anderer zu malen. Es gibt Einsichten und neue Inspiration. Ich kann das nur zur Nachahmung enpfehlen.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/146/989615E860B3CFB334E7F9E45CD07955.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-9164227989385519085?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/9164227989385519085/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=9164227989385519085&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/9164227989385519085'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/9164227989385519085'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2010/04/alpine-landscape.html' title='Visiting Münters and Kandinskys house'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2758/4502535508_d6420d6ec3_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-5687398539058794801</id><published>2010-04-04T00:00:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2010-04-04T00:14:57.857+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Happy Easter!</title><content type='html'>&lt;style type="text/css"&gt;.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #FFFFFF; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }&lt;/style&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/claudia1de/4486157527/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4047/4486157527_83ee95016f.jpg" class="flickr-photo" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;     &lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-5687398539058794801?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/5687398539058794801/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=5687398539058794801&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/5687398539058794801'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/5687398539058794801'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2010/04/photo-sharing.html' title='Happy Easter!'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4047/4486157527_83ee95016f_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-2098635652006344045</id><published>2010-04-03T15:34:00.009+02:00</published><updated>2010-04-04T00:15:13.142+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;style type="text/css"&gt;.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #FFFFFF; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }&lt;/style&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/claudia1de/4486157527/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.flickr.com/photos/claudia1de/4486157527/?reuploaded=1" class="flickr-photo" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt; I painted with my new acrylic paints from Golden. They are called "Golden open acrylics" and stay wet about three days. It is a real pleasure to paint with them, because they don't smell at all, but they are so soft and well to use.&lt;br /&gt;Ich malte mit meinen neuen Acrylfarben von "Golden". Sie heißen "Golden open acrylics" und bleiben bis zu drei Tage feucht und vermalbar. Es macht wirklich Spaß, mit ihnen zu arbeiten, sie sind sehr geschmeidig und gut zu benutzen.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Happy Easter/Frohe Ostern!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/146/989615E860B3CFB334E7F9E45CD07955.png" style="border: 0 !important; background: transparent;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-2098635652006344045?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/2098635652006344045/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=2098635652006344045&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/2098635652006344045'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/2098635652006344045'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2010/04/happy-easter.html' title=''/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-5871484162792588059</id><published>2010-03-27T17:40:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2010-03-27T17:47:10.639+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Landscape near Sandnes, Norway</title><content type='html'>&lt;style type="text/css"&gt;.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #FFFFFF; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }&lt;/style&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/claudia1de/4467536582/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2709/4467536582_e2b2cfb9b2.jpg" class="flickr-photo" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;     &lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt; This is my third contribution to the &lt;a href="http://virtualpaintout.blogspot.com/"&gt;Virtual paintout &lt;/a&gt;series. Maybe I was meditating while painting, but suddenly I realized that I put layer over layer over layer and that I was about to paint that painting "to death", if you know what I mean. I miss the transparency in it, but decided to post it, anyway. Better than nothing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Das ist mein dritter Beitrag zum "&lt;a href="http://virtualpaintout.blogspot.com/"&gt;Virtual Paintout&lt;/a&gt;". Vielleicht war ich am Meditieren, während ich malte, aber plötzlich wurde mir klar, daß ich Lasur über Lasur über Lasur legte und ich dabei war, das Bild "zu Tode" zu malen. Ich vermisse die Transparenz der Aquarellfarben darin, aber ich entschloß mich, es trotzdem zu posten. Besser als nichts.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-5871484162792588059?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/5871484162792588059/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=5871484162792588059&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/5871484162792588059'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/5871484162792588059'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2010/03/landscape-near-sandnes-norway.html' title='Landscape near Sandnes, Norway'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2709/4467536582_e2b2cfb9b2_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-8259336623768849281</id><published>2010-03-18T12:05:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2010-03-18T12:11:32.949+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Spring</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="flickr-frame"&gt;&lt;a title="photo sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/claudia1de/4443077138/"&gt;&lt;img class="flickr-photo" alt="" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4008/4443077138_09aa309e83.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt;It seems that spring has finally arrived...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Es scheint, als ob der Frühling gekommen wäre...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;posted by/gepostet von&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/146/989615E860B3CFB334E7F9E45CD07955.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-8259336623768849281?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/8259336623768849281/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=8259336623768849281&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/8259336623768849281'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/8259336623768849281'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2010/03/spring.html' title='Spring'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4008/4443077138_09aa309e83_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-4839950868708442077</id><published>2010-03-09T13:03:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2010-03-09T16:16:07.987+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Virtual paintout No.2</title><content type='html'>&lt;style type="text/css"&gt;.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #FFFFFF; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }&lt;/style&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/claudia1de/4419804778/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4024/4419804778_2d6c4d112c.jpg" class="flickr-photo" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   &lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt; This is my second painting for the virtual paintout blog. It shows a landscape near Sandnes in the Stavanger region of Norway.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt;Das ist mein zweiter beitrag für den "virtual paintout" (siehe letzten Blogpost). Es zeigt eine Landschaft bei Sandnes in der Stavanger-Region, Norwegen.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/146/989615E860B3CFB334E7F9E45CD07955.png" style="border: 0 !important; background: transparent;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-4839950868708442077?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/4839950868708442077/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=4839950868708442077&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/4839950868708442077'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/4839950868708442077'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2010/03/virtual-paintout-no2.html' title='Virtual paintout No.2'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4024/4419804778_2d6c4d112c_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-787977784280013705</id><published>2010-03-03T19:09:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2010-03-09T16:14:34.171+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Going on...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4063/4403837223_ff78c437a4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 500px; height: 347px;" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4063/4403837223_ff78c437a4.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After a long time I'm blogging and painting again. I start with a watercolour. The motif is from Google street view and shows a landscape near Stavanger, Norway. Bill Guffey had the idea to use Google street views for painting. On his blog "&lt;a href="http://virtualpaintout.blogspot.com/"&gt;the virtual paintout&lt;/a&gt;" he chooses a new city every month. As I like Norway so very much, I just had to participate...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;The view is from Havneveg, Sola (near Stavanger, Norway).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Nach einer langen Pause male und blogge ich wieder. Ich beginne mit einem Aquarell. Das Motiv ist aus dem "Google street view"- Modus und zeigt eine Landschaft bei Stavanger in Norwegen. Bill Guffey hatte die Idee, den Google street view - Modus für Malmotive zu nutzen. In seinem Blog "the virtaul paintout" wählt er für jeden Monat eine andere Stadt bzw. Region der Welt aus. Da ich Norwegen so sehr mag,  m u ß t e  ich natürlich sofort teilnehmen...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Der Blick ist vom Havneveg, Sola (bei Stavanger, Norwegen).&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/146/989615E860B3CFB334E7F9E45CD07955.png" style="border: 0 !important; background: transparent;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-787977784280013705?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/787977784280013705/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=787977784280013705&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/787977784280013705'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/787977784280013705'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2010/03/going-on.html' title='Going on...'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4063/4403837223_ff78c437a4_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-2214726409036899970</id><published>2009-09-05T00:11:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2009-09-05T00:18:18.570+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>Dear friends,&lt;br /&gt;due to workload and problems of time, I will temporarily refrain from posting and from visiting your blogs and websites. In the meantime, keep up the good work! See you all again soon!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Liebe Freunde,&lt;br /&gt;aufgrund vieler Arbeit und eines daraus resultierenden Zeitproblems werde ich zeitweilig keine neuen Beiträge hier posten und auch Eure Blogs und Websites nicht besuchen können.Ihr macht in der Zwischenzeit bitte so schön weiter wie bisher! &lt;br /&gt;Bis bald!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Claudia&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-2214726409036899970?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/2214726409036899970/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=2214726409036899970&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/2214726409036899970'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/2214726409036899970'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2009/09/dear-friends-due-to-workload-and.html' title=''/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-7747074760951590662</id><published>2009-07-30T17:46:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2009-07-30T18:09:59.026+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Porcelain Painting</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3205/3772526320_06b235476e.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 355px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 468px" alt="" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3205/3772526320_06b235476e.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A few days ago, I attended a porcelain painting workshop in the famous Porcelain Manufactory in Meissen, Germany. Painting with the porcelain painting colours was a real challenge: they react unlike oils, unlike watercolours or acrylics...Nevertheless, I'm happy with my first attempt and I learned a lot about this special form of painting and the history of porcelain painting  in these three days.  We visited the studios of the professional Manufactory painters and watched them work and talked to them. They have to earn a living with painting the same flower bouquets, day in, day out. Although in my opinion they are all artists, they are still considered to be workers, they can never decide which motif to put on the porcelain, because they are no designers. They are paid to paint, not to design...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Vor einigen Tagen besuchte ich einen Porzellanmalworkshop in der berühmten Porzellanmanufaktur in Meissen. Es war eine Herausforderung, mit den Porzellanmalfarben zu arbeiten, die völlig anders reagieren als Ölfarben, Aquarellfarben oder Acrylfarben...Trotzdem bin ich ganz zufrieden mit meinem ersten Versuch. Ich lernte eine Menge über diese spezielle Art der Malerei und  auch über die Geschichte der Porzellanmalerei. Am letzten Tag besuchten wir die Ateliers der professionellen Maler der Manufaktur und beobachteten sie bei der Arbeit. Wir unterhielten uns sehr interessant mit ihnen. Sie verdienen ihr Geld, indem sie dasselbe Blumenbouquet, tagein, tagaus, immer wieder malen. Obwohl sie in meinen Augen alle Künstler sind, werden sie immer noch als Arbeiter angesehen. Sie können nicht entscheiden, was auf ein Porzellan gemalt wird, denn sie sind keine Designer. Sie werden bezahlt, um zu malen, nicht um zu entwerfen...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/146/989615E860B3CFB334E7F9E45CD07955.png" style="border: 0 !important; background: transparent;"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-7747074760951590662?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/7747074760951590662/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=7747074760951590662&amp;isPopup=true' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/7747074760951590662'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/7747074760951590662'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2009/07/porcelain-painting.html' title='Porcelain Painting'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3205/3772526320_06b235476e_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-2138100378726606779</id><published>2009-07-16T10:59:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2009-07-16T11:03:07.725+02:00</updated><title type='text'>South Tyrol 3</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3450/3726376130_d791957449.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 450px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 326px" alt="" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3450/3726376130_d791957449.jpg?v=0" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The farm buildings were really fascinating. People still live in them, although some of them are older than 500 years!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Die Gebäude, vor allem die Bauernhöfe, sind einzigartig und faszinierend. Die Menschen leben noch heute in ihnen, obwohl einige dieser Gebäude älter als 500 Jahre sind!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/146/989615E860B3CFB334E7F9E45CD07955.png" style="border: 0 !important; background: transparent;"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-2138100378726606779?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/2138100378726606779/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=2138100378726606779&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/2138100378726606779'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/2138100378726606779'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2009/07/south-tyrol-3.html' title='South Tyrol 3'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-8210563808722893803</id><published>2009-07-06T09:07:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2009-07-06T09:17:16.353+02:00</updated><title type='text'>South Tyrol 2</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3623/3692742991_fa4fbe668d.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 486px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 342px" alt="" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3623/3692742991_fa4fbe668d.jpg?v=0" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;We went for a walk and saw this pretty landscape. I was fascinated by the countryside as well as by the beautiful farm buildings there and could have painted for hours...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Während des Wanderns hatten wir diese wundervolle Aussicht. Ich war sowohl von der Landschaft als auch von den Bauernhöfen fasziniert und hätte stundenlang malen können... &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/146/989615E860B3CFB334E7F9E45CD07955.png" style="border: 0 !important; background: transparent;"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-8210563808722893803?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/8210563808722893803/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=8210563808722893803&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/8210563808722893803'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/8210563808722893803'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2009/07/south-tyrol-2.html' title='South Tyrol 2'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-8997308131120092378</id><published>2009-07-01T15:14:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2009-07-01T16:02:04.409+02:00</updated><title type='text'>South Tyrol 1</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2582/3677702271_15ceae6259.jpg?v=1246456882"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 445px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 330px" alt="" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2582/3677702271_15ceae6259.jpg?v=1246456882" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2582/3677702271_c669707e2a.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;...a farmstead in the neighbourhood...I loved the contrast between the turquoise window shutters and the old wood...ein Bergbauernhof in unmittelbarer Nachbarschaft. Ich mochte den Kontrast zwischen den türkisen Fensterläden und dem alten Holz...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We had some wonderful, inspirational days in South Tyrol. Observing the life of a family living at a mountain farmstead so far away from everything, was a truly enlightening experience. They have never been inside an airplane and have only been to Meran and Bozen. They say they could have, but tehy didn't want to. They are to a great extent self-sufficient and therefore, independent of supermarkets, advertisings and other diversions. They grow their own vegetables and herbs, they get milk from their cows and eggs from their hens. Food is simple, but tasteful and fresh. It is a good life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Wir verbrachten schöne, inspirierende Tage in Südtirol. Es war eine augenöffnende Erfahrung, das Leben einer Bergbauernfamilie zu beobachten, die so weit weg von allem wohnt. Sie sind noch nie geflogen und waren nur in Meran und Bozen. Die Familie ist zu einem großen Teil Selbstversorger und deshalb weitgehend unabhängig von Supermärkten, Werbung und anderen Zerstreuungen. Sie bauen ihr eigenes Gemüse an, bekommen Milch von ihren eigenen Kühen und Eier von ihren Hühnern. Das Essen ist einfach, aber wohlschmeckend und frisch. Es ist ein gutes Leben.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/146/989615E860B3CFB334E7F9E45CD07955.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-8997308131120092378?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/8997308131120092378/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=8997308131120092378&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/8997308131120092378'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/8997308131120092378'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2009/07/south-tyrol-1.html' title='South Tyrol 1'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-5859881759801697806</id><published>2009-06-03T13:26:00.007+02:00</published><updated>2009-06-05T15:13:18.892+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Holidays</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3610/3597253507_4bbe340081.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 429px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 374px" alt="" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3610/3597253507_4bbe340081.jpg?v=0" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;The next days we will spend in a farmstead located in the Italian Alps, 50 km from Bozen, at an altitude of 1460 m. We are looking forward to relaxing, hiking, eating local food, drinking wine and...painting and drawing! See you in two weeks!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Die nächsten Tage werden wir auf einem Bergbauernhof in den Alpen verbringen. Er liegt 50 km von Bozen entfernt auf einer Höhe von 1460 Metern. Wir werden faulenzen, wandern, gutes Essen zu uns nehmen, Wein trinken und...malen und zeichnen! Also bis in zwei Wochen!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/146/989615E860B3CFB334E7F9E45CD07955.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-5859881759801697806?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/5859881759801697806/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=5859881759801697806&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/5859881759801697806'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/5859881759801697806'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2009/06/holidays.html' title='Holidays'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-736362619680096784</id><published>2009-06-02T11:39:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2009-06-02T11:53:28.528+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Garden View</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3598/3588015331_2ba6d2503a.jpg?v=1243935502"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 316px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 420px" alt="" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3598/3588015331_2ba6d2503a.jpg?v=1243935502" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Although I love colours, I'm lately fascinated by the vast possibilities of black and white drawings. And I highly appreciate the Copic multiliners, because they produce a crisp, waterproof, black line, similar to an old drawing pen.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Obwohl ich eigentlich Farben liebe, bin ich in letzter Zeit immer mehr fasziniert von den vielseitigen Möglichkeiten von Schwarz-Weiß-Zeichnungen. Und ich schätze meine Copic Multiliners sehr hoch, denn sie erzeugen eine scharfe, wasserfeste schwarze Linie, vergleichbar mit denen einer Zeichenfeder.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/146/989615E860B3CFB334E7F9E45CD07955.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-736362619680096784?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/736362619680096784/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=736362619680096784&amp;isPopup=true' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/736362619680096784'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/736362619680096784'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2009/06/garden-view.html' title='Garden View'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-3585325218202051911</id><published>2009-05-25T11:54:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2009-05-25T12:01:55.113+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Landscape in black and white</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3336/3562662258_ab01e0c3fe.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 353px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 430px" alt="" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3336/3562662258_ab01e0c3fe.jpg?v=0" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I spent some days near Essen and had time to hike and draw a little bit. I am very happy with the Copic Multiliners I used for the drawing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ich war einige Tage in Essen und hatte Zeit, ein bißchen zu wandern und zu zeichnen. Ich bin begeistert von den Copic Multilinern, mit denen ich die Zeichnung angefertigt habe.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/146/989615E860B3CFB334E7F9E45CD07955.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-3585325218202051911?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/3585325218202051911/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=3585325218202051911&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/3585325218202051911'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/3585325218202051911'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2009/05/landscape-in-black-and-white.html' title='Landscape in black and white'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-4283031932274494443</id><published>2009-05-16T10:47:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2009-05-16T10:52:44.961+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Everyday Journal</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2443/3534883881_7d8f70e039.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 358px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 500px" alt="" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2443/3534883881_7d8f70e039.jpg?v=0" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Here is another page of my self-bound journal. The paper is the Canson-Mi-Teintes which is very good for pen and ink drawings .&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hier ist wieder eine Seite meines selbstgebundenen Skizzenbuchs. Bei dem Papier handelt es sich um Canson-Mi-Teintes, das sehr gut für Tuschezeichnungen geeignet ist.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/146/989615E860B3CFB334E7F9E45CD07955.png" style="border: 0 !important; background: transparent;"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-4283031932274494443?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/4283031932274494443/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=4283031932274494443&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/4283031932274494443'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/4283031932274494443'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2009/05/everyday-journal.html' title='Everyday Journal'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-5169112601814766482</id><published>2009-05-08T16:11:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2009-05-08T16:15:25.949+02:00</updated><title type='text'>En Plein Air</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3584/3512306693_e71a675904.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 500px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 359px" alt="" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3584/3512306693_e71a675904.jpg?v=0" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another landscape painting - en plein air! I used 600g Fabriano Artistico extra white watercolour paper.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Noch ein Landschaftsbild! Ich verwendete 600g Fabriano Artistico Extra White &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Aquarellpapier.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/146/989615E860B3CFB334E7F9E45CD07955.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-5169112601814766482?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/5169112601814766482/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=5169112601814766482&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/5169112601814766482'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/5169112601814766482'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2009/05/en-plein-air.html' title='En Plein Air'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-6976827055641876079</id><published>2009-05-03T20:16:00.006+02:00</published><updated>2009-05-03T20:22:39.133+02:00</updated><title type='text'>New Journal</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3634/3498073162_3625bcce23.jpg?v=1241374533"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 366px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 500px" alt="" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3634/3498073162_3625bcce23.jpg?v=1241374533" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm so happy with my first self-bound journal and couldn't resist to draw something in it. The paper is one of the economic drawing papers I included (because of its colour).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ich bin so glücklich mit meinem ersten, selbstgebundenen Skizzenbuch und konnte nicht widerstehen, etwas hineinzuzeichnen. bei dem papier handelt es sich um eines der billigen Skizzenpapiere, die ich der Farbe wegen eingefügt habe.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/146/989615E860B3CFB334E7F9E45CD07955.png" style="border: 0 !important; background: transparent;"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-6976827055641876079?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/6976827055641876079/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=6976827055641876079&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/6976827055641876079'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/6976827055641876079'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2009/05/new-journal.html' title='New Journal'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-6623221784291114507</id><published>2009-04-27T11:20:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2009-04-27T11:26:35.665+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Virtual Sketch Date 1</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3587/3478838717_04317b5b34.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 500px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 341px" alt="" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3587/3478838717_04317b5b34.jpg?v=0" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;I participated in the Virtual Sketch Date, see this link: &lt;a href="http://virtualsketchdate.blogspot.com/"&gt;http://virtualsketchdate.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;It is very interesting to see how different people paint from the same photo reference...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Have a nice week!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ich nahm an dem "Virtual Sketch Date teil, link siehe oben. Es ist sehr interessant zu sehen, wie unterschiedlich die Ergebnisse sind, wenn von ein- und derselben Vorlage gemalt wird...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ich wünsche allen eine gute Woche!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/146/989615E860B3CFB334E7F9E45CD07955.png" style="border: 0 !important; background: transparent;"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-6623221784291114507?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/6623221784291114507/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=6623221784291114507&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/6623221784291114507'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/6623221784291114507'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2009/04/virtual-sketch-date-1.html' title='Virtual Sketch Date 1'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-8208646376373949790</id><published>2009-04-24T12:03:00.012+02:00</published><updated>2009-04-24T14:07:32.884+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Bookbinding</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3490/3470760484_9812b90ccc.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 363px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 500px" alt="" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3490/3470760484_9812b90ccc.jpg?v=0" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is my first self-bound book; ( I'm a little bit proud, I admit)....15x19,5cm (approx. 6x8 in),made of 300g (140 lb)hot pressed Fabriano Artistico Extra White satinated watercolour paper, some Canson-Mi-Teintes paper in earthtones and some economic sketch paper in grey.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The reason why I tried bookbinding was the following: I tried (and bought) so many sketchbooks with different papers, but was not happy with the quality of the paper...you all know the problem, I guess...Sometimes, the paper is too thin to do a watercolour wash and it buckles, sometimes the paper is too rough to do a pen and ink sketch...Or you have a watercolour paper, but the surface is not o.k. and the colours sink in and all the brightness disappears...Then you have the little Moleskines: practical, a bit too small and a surface which rejects watercolour...The watercolour Moleskine has fine paper, indeed, b u t the format is horrible...The only ready made sketchbook I can really recommend for its paper quality is the one from Vang (Vangerow), DIN A5 (approx.6x8 in) with 60 pages of 230g e x c e l l e n t watercolour paper, but is has a disadvantage, too: it is only available in a horizontal format which I dislike.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So now at least I have a sketchbook with the papers of my own choice with white and middle tone papers, for all purposes, and the format is o.k., too. (Although I did some concessions to that: the Fabriano paper is not cheap, so I had to use a format which produced as few waste as possible which lead to this format). My preferred format for a sketchbook, however, will always be 17x17cm (approx. 7x7 in), square.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Das ist mein erstes, selbstgebundenes Buch. (Ich gebe zu, ich bin etwas stolz darauf). Es besteht aus 300g Fabriano Artistico Extra White satiniertem Aquarellpapier, einigen Seiten Canson-Mi-teintes-Papier in erdigen Tönen und einigen Seiten aus grauem, billigem Skizzenpapier.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Der Grund, warum ich mich gezwungen sah, Buch zu binden, war folgender: Ich kaufte in der Vergangenheit so viele verschiedene Skizzenbücher, war aber mit der Papierqualität und -zusammensetzung niemals wirklich zufrieden. Mal war das Papier zu dünn, um zu aquarellieren und es verzog sich deshalb; mal war es zu rauh, um mit der Feder zu zeichnen. Oder es handelte sich zwar um Aquarellpapier, aber die Oberfläche war so schlecht, daß die Farben einsanken und jegliche Leuchtkraft verloren ging. Dann gab es da die kleinen Moleskines: praktisch, ein bißchen zu klein und ein Papier, dessen Oberfläche Aquarellfarben abstößt...Das Moleskine-Aquarell-Skizzenbuch hingegen hat wirklich gutes Papier, aber das Format ist schrecklich, lang und schmal, mit herausreißbaren Seiten...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Das einzige Skizzenbuch, das ich wegen seiner Papierqualität uneingeschränkt empfehlen kann, ist das von Vang (Vangerow), DIN A 5, mit 60 Seiten bestem, 230 g schwerem Aquarellpapier, das die Farben leuchten läßt, aber auch dieses hat einen Nachteil für mich, denn es ist nur im Querformat erhältlich.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Nun habe ich also ein Skizzenbuch mit dem Papier meiner Wahl; mit weißem und mittel getöntem Papier für alle Techniken, und das Format ist auch o.k. (obwohl ich da einige Zugeständnisse gemacht habe, weil das Fabriano-Papier nicht billig ist und ich deshalb so wenig Verschnitt wie möglich produzieren wollte. Dies führte zu diesem Format, wobei ich immer noch denke, daß für mich ein Skizzenbuch idealerweise das Maß 17x17cm haben sollte, also quadratisch!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/146/989615E860B3CFB334E7F9E45CD07955.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-8208646376373949790?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/8208646376373949790/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=8208646376373949790&amp;isPopup=true' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/8208646376373949790'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/8208646376373949790'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2009/04/bookbinding.html' title='Bookbinding'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-1123973905677965377</id><published>2009-04-23T12:47:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2009-04-23T12:59:06.738+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3517/3468216232_144c120d60.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 500px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 356px" alt="" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3517/3468216232_144c120d60.jpg?v=0" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have a lot of  red poppies in my garden, but I always wanted to have pink ones. Some years ago, I bought some of them, but they were in blossom only once, then they disappeared from the flower bed...the red ones triumphed...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ich habe sehr viel türkischen, roten Gartenmohn , aber ich wollte in meinem Garten immer den rosafarbenen haben. Deshalb kaufte ich vor einigen Jahren eine Pflanze. Sie blühte zwar, aber nur einmal, dann verschwand sie unter mysteriösen Umständen aus dem Blumenbeet...der rote Mohn triumphierte...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/146/989615E860B3CFB334E7F9E45CD07955.png" style="border: 0 !important; background: transparent;"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-1123973905677965377?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/1123973905677965377/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=1123973905677965377&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/1123973905677965377'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/1123973905677965377'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2009/04/my-everyday-journal.html' title=''/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-3496309146586427902</id><published>2009-04-21T13:01:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2009-04-23T12:33:49.614+02:00</updated><title type='text'>From my sketchbook</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3599/3462551402_31b606b9e8.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 500px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 329px" alt="" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3599/3462551402_31b606b9e8.jpg?v=0" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;A rural scene from my sketchbook, done with a Copic Multiliner 0,05. Some watercolour was added later. I really enjoyed sketching this.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Eine ländliche Szene aus meinem Skizzenbuch, gezeichnet mit einem Copic Multiliner 0,05. Danach habe ich mit etwas Aquarellfarbe Akzente gesetzt.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/146/989615E860B3CFB334E7F9E45CD07955.png" style="border: 0 !important; background: transparent;"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-3496309146586427902?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/3496309146586427902/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=3496309146586427902&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/3496309146586427902'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/3496309146586427902'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2009/04/from-my-sketchbook.html' title='From my sketchbook'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-916660113192044133</id><published>2009-04-03T11:22:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2009-04-03T11:44:19.115+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Tulips</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3562/3408393829_b9fc4a99e2.jpg?v=1238751754"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 306px; height: 500px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3562/3408393829_b9fc4a99e2.jpg?v=1238751754" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Now spring has come! Yesterday, we had the first sunny and warm day after weeks of bad, cold and grey weather.- I painted some tulips my husband gave to me. I painted with my brushes right away, without a pencil drawing. Therefore, the tulips are not very recognizable;-))&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;My crochet shawl is nearly finished, I will post a picture soon. And I read a very interesting book about painting" Intuitiv Malen" by Thomas Lüchinger, a swiss author. He reveals a whole philosophy about intuitive painting and recommends ways to connect to your inner voice. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Nun ist endlich Frühling! Gestern hatten wir den ersten sonnigen, warmen Tag nach Wochen schlechten, kalten und grauen Wetters. - Ich malte Tulpen, die ich von meinem Mann geschenkt bekommen hatte. Ohne Vorzeichnung malte ich gleich mit Pinsel und Farbe. Deshalb sind die Tulpen als solche auch nicht so gut erkennbar;-))&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Mein Häkelschal ist fast fertig, ich werde bald ein Bild davon machen. Und ich las ein ziemlich interessantes Buch: "Intuitiv Malen" von Thomas Lüchinger, einem Schweizer Autor. Er entwickelt darin eine ganze Philosophie über intuitives Malen und zeigt Wege auf, mit der eigenen, inneren Stimme in Kontakt zu kommen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-916660113192044133?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/916660113192044133/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=916660113192044133&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/916660113192044133'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/916660113192044133'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2009/04/tulips.html' title='Tulips'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-4712362734229570295</id><published>2009-03-15T13:17:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2009-03-15T13:31:33.673+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Spring Weather</title><content type='html'>&lt;img style="WIDTH: 404px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 388px" alt="" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3662/3356412870_6466139c8e.jpg?v=1237120241" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yesterday, we had the first day of spring, I'm sure. It was sunny and warm, although I still couldn't spot any snowdrops or crocusses...I thought I would upload a quick brush sketch from my Alpine Sketchbook, because of the springlike colours...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Gestern war der erste Frühlingstag, ich bin mir sicher. Es war sonnig und mild, aber ich habe immer noch keine Schneeglöckchen oder Krokusse in den Gärten gesehen. Ich dachte, ich würde -passend dazu- mal eine schnelle Pinselskizze aus meinem Alpen-Skizzenbuch heraufladen, denn die Farben sind irgendwie frühlingshaft...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-4712362734229570295?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/4712362734229570295/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=4712362734229570295&amp;isPopup=true' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/4712362734229570295'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/4712362734229570295'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2009/03/spring-weather.html' title='Spring Weather'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-7322770419838609592</id><published>2009-03-06T12:03:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2009-03-06T12:12:50.404+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Papercutting</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/162/348892764_22b765572f.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3353/3333039294_33018717fb.jpg?v=1236336979"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 340px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 500px" alt="" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3353/3333039294_33018717fb.jpg?v=1236336979" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;The month of March starts with a little papercutting, a tree of life. Papercuttings don't have to be always in black, although the tension between a black cutting and a white paper as a background is something very special. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Der März beginnt mit einem kleinen Lebensbaum-Scherenschnitt. Scherenschnitte müssen nicht immer aus schwarzem Papier sein, obwohl die Spannung zwischen einem schwarzen Schnitt und einem weißen Hintergrund schon etwas Besonderes ist.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-7322770419838609592?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/7322770419838609592/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=7322770419838609592&amp;isPopup=true' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/7322770419838609592'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/7322770419838609592'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2009/03/papercutting.html' title='Papercutting'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-5785895341652296304</id><published>2009-02-25T18:29:00.014+01:00</published><updated>2009-02-25T20:39:57.280+01:00</updated><title type='text'>An artist's style</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3603/3309660156_63cb78ef09.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 500px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 363px" alt="" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3603/3309660156_63cb78ef09.jpg?v=0" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;I really wonder what's behind an artist's style. There are artists (like Kandinsky) who changed their style considerably during their lifetime; others (like Dalí) had different styles at the same time. Not so long ago, I read about an artist who revealed a different style during a holiday where he came to other insights, surrounded by other landscapes and colours. He wrote that when he came back , he "&lt;strong&gt;returned to the style he was known for&lt;/strong&gt;"...I thought about that sentence a long time, maybe I was almost shocked...Did that possibly mean that a published artist had suddenly no more possibility to grow further, only to meet the taste of an audience who expected a certain style from him? - In the visitor's book of another artist's website I read an interesting comment, concerning the same problem. The man wrote: "Your recent work is very well done, although I prefer the style in which you painted five years ago." This means that if you are an established, well-known artist, you have created something like a brand with your work. From then on, it is extremely difficult to change your style as it pleases you without disappointing the expectations of your buyers. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ich frage mich, was es mit dem "Stil" eines Künstlers auf sich hat. Es gibt Künstler (wie Kandinsky), die ihren Stil im Laufe ihres Lebens beträchtlich geändert haben; andere (wie Dalí) hatten verschiedene Stile zur gleichen Zeit. Vor einiger Zeit las ich über einen Künstler, der einen anderen Stil während eines Urlaubs gefunden hatte, in dem er von anderen Landschaften und Farben umgeben war. Als er wieder nach Hause kam, schrieb er, daß er "&lt;strong&gt;wieder zu dem Stil zurückkehrte, den die Leute von ihm erwarteten&lt;/strong&gt;."Ich habe über diesen Satz lange nachgedacht, ich war, fast könnte man sagen, schockiert. Sollte das vielleicht bedeuten, daß ein etablierter Künstler sich nicht mehr weiterentwickeln durfte, nur um den Geschmack eines Publikums zu befriedigen, das einen ganz bestimmten Stil von ihm erwartete?- Im Gästebuch einer Website eines anderen Künstlers las ich diesbezüglich folgenden, interessanten Kommentar: Der Mann schrieb: "Ihre letzten Arbeiten sind sehr gut gemacht, obwohl ich persönlich den Stil bevorzuge, in dem Sie Ihre Bilder vor fünf Jahren gemalt haben." Das bedeutet unzweifelhaft, daß ein etablierter Künstler mit seinem Werk so etwas wie eine Marke schafft. Von diesem Zeitpunkt an ist es extrem schwierig, seinen Stil zu verändern, ohne die Erwartungen der Käufer zu enttäuschen.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-5785895341652296304?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/5785895341652296304/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=5785895341652296304&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/5785895341652296304'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/5785895341652296304'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2009/02/artists-style.html' title='An artist&apos;s style'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-481880581951351115</id><published>2009-02-18T16:30:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2009-02-18T16:35:53.015+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Winter is back</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3557/3290709348_7114366466.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 355px; height: 492px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3557/3290709348_7114366466.jpg?v=0" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yesterday and the day before we got a lot of snow again. The birds are ignoring the cold and sing like in springtime...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Gestern und am Tag zuvor hat es fast ununterbrochen geschneit. Die Vögel ignorieren die Kälte und singen wie im Frühling...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-481880581951351115?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/481880581951351115/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=481880581951351115&amp;isPopup=true' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/481880581951351115'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/481880581951351115'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2009/02/winter-is-back.html' title='Winter is back'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-4994648898904159014</id><published>2009-02-10T14:42:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2009-02-12T13:30:16.688+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Primula</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3429/3268712027_21c32c5917.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 354px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 451px" alt="" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3429/3268712027_21c32c5917.jpg?v=0" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3386/3268712031_8d540f73a0.jpg?v=1234273206"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 368px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 457px" alt="" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3386/3268712031_8d540f73a0.jpg?v=1234273206" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;I did my last watercolour a long time ago. Today, my primulas on my breakfast table begged me to paint them...and I did! - I'm still working on my "artist's" scarf and on another (knitting) project. In between, I have to work and I h a v e to do some housework, too. So everything takes time...The weather is very bad today, it's stormy outside...so I have an excuse not to go out and will rather making me an Italian coffee now and do some crochet.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Es ist lange her, daß ich ein Aquarell gemalt habe. Heute haben mich aber meine Primeln auf meinem Frühstückstisch gebeten, sie zu malen, was ich auch tat. - Ich arbeite immer noch an meinem "Künstler"-Schal und an einem anderen (Strick-)Projekt. Dazwischen muß ich arbeiten und auch ein bißchen Haushalt erledigen. So braucht alles seine Zeit...Das Wetter ist sehr schlecht heute, es ist regelrecht stürmisch; da habe ich natürlich eine gute Ausrede, nicht nach draußen zu gehen. Ich werde mir stattdessen einen schönen, italienischen Kaffee machen und vielleicht noch ein bißchen handarbeiten, wenn es die Zeit erlaubt.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-4994648898904159014?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/4994648898904159014/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=4994648898904159014&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/4994648898904159014'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/4994648898904159014'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2009/02/primula.html' title='Primula'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-2737379829696683179</id><published>2009-02-05T15:48:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2009-02-05T16:16:00.151+01:00</updated><title type='text'>crochet scarf 2</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3325/3255083663_9ece105415.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 500px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 339px" alt="" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3325/3255083663_9ece105415.jpg?v=0" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;I found the pattern for the scarf in the internet: &lt;a href="http://www.hendesverden.dk/handarbejde/haklet-torklade/"&gt;http://www.hendesverden.dk/handarbejde/haklet-torklade/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;As the pattern is in Danish, it was a little bit of work to understand how to crochet the granny squares, but at least I understood how to do it. - I think I will have to do a lot more squares, not only twenty -, to complete the scarf...;-)) I bought 100g of Noro Kureyon sock yarn color 182 and 100g of colour 040. As color 182 has some parts with orange and red tones (which I like, but n o t for t h i s scarf), I used only the blue-green-violet shades of that colour and will keep the orange-red tones for some other project.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;And now...a Latte Macchiato!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ich habe die Anleitung zu diesem Schal im Internet gefunden (siehe link oben). Da alles in Dänisch geschrieben ist, hatte ich zu Beginn etwas Schwierigkeiten, alles zu verstehen, aber schließlich gelang es doch. Ich denke, ich werde noch eine Menge mehr Quadrate häkeln müssen; mit weiteren 20 komme ich niemals hin. Ich kaufte 100g Noro Kureyon Sockengarn Farbe 182 und 100g der Farbe 040. Da die Farbe 182 ziemlich starke Orange-Rot-Töne beinhaltet (die ich zwar mag, aber  n i c h t  für  d i e s e n  Schal), habe ich einfach nur die blau-grün-violetten Partien benutzt und die orange-roten werde ich für ein anderes Projekt aufheben.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Und jetzt...eine Latte Macchiato!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-2737379829696683179?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/2737379829696683179/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=2737379829696683179&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/2737379829696683179'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/2737379829696683179'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2009/02/crochet-scarf-2.html' title='crochet scarf 2'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-1671355985754816758</id><published>2009-02-03T14:16:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2009-02-03T14:25:33.633+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Noro Sock Yarn</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3128/3249772085_2c80481922.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 496px; height: 376px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3128/3249772085_2c80481922.jpg?v=0" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;One can paint with watercolours or oils or acrylics, but with yarn, too! I bought Noro Sock Yarn to crochet a scarf. The colour of the yarn is amazing; but the quality isn't as good as I would have expected ...sometimes the thread is  v e r y  thin, like a sewing thread, then it is again so thick that you can hardly manage it to get it through the chain stitch...All in all, I'm pleased because of the colours, although I think the price for the yarn is too high...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Man kann mit Wasserfarben, Öl oder Acryl malen, aber auch mit Wolle! Ich habe mir Noro Sockengarn gekauft. Die Farben sind wunderbar, aber die Qualität des Fadens ist nicht das, was ich erwartet habe. Manchmal ist das Garn dünn wie ein Nähfaden; dann hat man wiederum Schwierigkeiten, es überhaupt durch eine Luftmasche zu bekommen, so dick ist es plötzlich...Alles in allem  bin ich zufrieden, weil die Farben so schön sind, obwohl ich glaube, daß der Preis für das Garn einfach zu hoch ist.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-1671355985754816758?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/1671355985754816758/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=1671355985754816758&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/1671355985754816758'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/1671355985754816758'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2009/02/noro-sock-yarn.html' title='Noro Sock Yarn'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-654666795031803957</id><published>2009-02-02T14:05:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2009-02-02T14:36:56.345+01:00</updated><title type='text'>acrylic adventure</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3267/3247563330_1bf658d9a2.jpg?v=1233581647"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 371px; height: 500px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3267/3247563330_1bf658d9a2.jpg?v=1233581647" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;When I want to paint a so-called "abstract" painting, there are always some non-abstract motifs which suggests themselves, like these little houses in the background. I found out that the "house" motif is very important to me.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Wenn ich ein sogenanntes "abstraktes" Bild male, gibt es immer wieder einige nicht-abstrakte Motive, die sich mir aufdrängen, wie diese kleinen Häuser im Hintergrund. Ich fand dabei heraus, daß das "Haus"-Motiv sehr wichtig für mich ist.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-654666795031803957?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/654666795031803957/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=654666795031803957&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/654666795031803957'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/654666795031803957'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2009/02/acrylic-adventure.html' title='acrylic adventure'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-2009881969300279823</id><published>2009-01-21T20:00:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2009-01-21T20:20:26.443+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Abstract</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3428/3216179044_2e0595f24e.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 370px; height: 500px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3428/3216179044_2e0595f24e.jpg?v=0" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;I thought I would change the look of my blog a bit and made a new header. At the moment, I long for strong colours, maybe because of the weather: it is cold and damp! - I think of another change, too: I would like to unite my two blogs into one. What do you think?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-2009881969300279823?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/2009881969300279823/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=2009881969300279823&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/2009881969300279823'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/2009881969300279823'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2009/01/abstract.html' title='Abstract'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-3591305592290849415</id><published>2009-01-14T21:25:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2009-01-14T21:30:07.609+01:00</updated><title type='text'>abstract acrylic</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3387/3196777325_ca71b18eff.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 354px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 478px" alt="" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3387/3196777325_ca71b18eff.jpg?v=0" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Yes, I know, I should do the birds series, but the more I think of it, the more I want to do something different,  something abstract, I want to play with bold colours ...does it look familiar to you?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ja, ich sollte weitermachen mit der "European Birds"-Serie. Aber je mehr ich daran denke, umso mehr möchte ich plötzlich etwas anderes machen, ich möchte mit kräftigen Farben spielen...kommt Euch das bekannt vor?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-3591305592290849415?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/3591305592290849415/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=3591305592290849415&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/3591305592290849415'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/3591305592290849415'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2009/01/abstract-acrylic.html' title='abstract acrylic'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-5358955080210976415</id><published>2009-01-03T21:08:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2009-01-03T21:12:04.180+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Colours</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1333/3164311650_cdd7406384.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 425px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 304px" alt="" src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1333/3164311650_cdd7406384.jpg?v=0" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;I was in the mood to play with colours today...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-5358955080210976415?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/5358955080210976415/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=5358955080210976415&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/5358955080210976415'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/5358955080210976415'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2009/01/colours.html' title='Colours'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-161142055993382213</id><published>2008-12-23T20:58:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-23T21:02:35.095+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Merry Christmas!  Frohe Weihnachten!  God Jul! Feliz Navidad!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3196/3130888633_5bf43a2926.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 361px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 500px" alt="" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3196/3130888633_5bf43a2926.jpg?v=0" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;I wish all my readers Merry Christmas and all the best for the coming year! May your days be filled with peace, harmony, joy and creativity!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ich wünsche allen, die diesen blog lesen, ein Frohes Weihnachtsfest und alles Gute für das Neue Jahr! Mögen alle Tage erfüllt sein von Frieden, Harmonie, Freude und Kreativität!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-161142055993382213?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/161142055993382213/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=161142055993382213&amp;isPopup=true' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/161142055993382213'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/161142055993382213'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2008/12/merry-christmas-frohe-weihnachten-god.html' title='Merry Christmas!  Frohe Weihnachten!  God Jul! Feliz Navidad!'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-7159267277273107556</id><published>2008-12-18T14:16:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-18T14:18:12.275+01:00</updated><title type='text'>White Christmas?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3127/3118291614_43394723a0.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 394px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 354px" alt="" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3127/3118291614_43394723a0.jpg?v=0" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Yesterday evening, it started to snow again. I'm thinking about White Christmas...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-7159267277273107556?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/7159267277273107556/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=7159267277273107556&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/7159267277273107556'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/7159267277273107556'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2008/12/white-christmas.html' title='White Christmas?'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-5694354017978882456</id><published>2008-12-08T13:08:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-08T13:17:02.943+01:00</updated><title type='text'>"Perchtn" run</title><content type='html'>Yesterday, I went to see a "Perchtn" run, a very ancient tradition here in upper Bavaria. If you are curious about what it is, go &lt;a href="http://my-sense-of-place.blogspot.com/2008/12/perchtnlauf-perchtn-run.html"&gt;here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just before it started, a heavy hail occured, but as the "Percht" is related to "Frau Holle" (Mother Hulda) and as mother Hulda is responsible for snow and hail, this was o.k.!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I parked my car   s o m w h e r e  in the village  where the run started.  ( I don't know the village, although it is nearby). After having gone for about 45 minutes with the whole crowd, I had difficulties to find my car again...I walked around for another 15 minutes or so, and finally I found it...that was "Perchtn" magic, wasn't it?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-5694354017978882456?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/5694354017978882456/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=5694354017978882456&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/5694354017978882456'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/5694354017978882456'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2008/12/perchtn-run.html' title='&quot;Perchtn&quot; run'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-5292984437396102486</id><published>2008-12-07T20:17:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-07T20:24:17.941+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Something in between (all those birds)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3176/3089527479_26f45da756.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 365px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 255px" alt="" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3176/3089527479_26f45da756.jpg?v=0" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;You all know, I love snowy landscapes. Some days ago, we had the first snow of the season. - I had to do this and &lt;a href="http://my-sense-of-place.blogspot.com/2008/12/new-skies-and-wooly-hat.html"&gt;that&lt;/a&gt;; and so I couldn't paint...but when I saw the snow, I thought it was time to grab my brushes...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-5292984437396102486?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/5292984437396102486/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=5292984437396102486&amp;isPopup=true' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/5292984437396102486'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/5292984437396102486'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2008/12/something-in-between-all-those-birds.html' title='Something in between (all those birds)'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-5788782753839351475</id><published>2008-11-19T11:43:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2008-11-19T11:53:46.585+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Bird "E"</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3249/3043426090_267836a61a.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 358px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 500px" alt="" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3249/3043426090_267836a61a.jpg?v=0" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;This time, I decided to paint a robin. It is a frequent guest in our garden and I love to observe him . &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Yesterday, I went to the house of a friend and we made &lt;a href="http://my-sense-of-place.blogspot.com/2008/11/project.html"&gt;this.&lt;/a&gt; We had a lot of fun.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-5788782753839351475?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/5788782753839351475/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=5788782753839351475&amp;isPopup=true' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/5788782753839351475'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/5788782753839351475'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2008/11/bird-e.html' title='Bird &quot;E&quot;'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-4635945488140320488</id><published>2008-11-10T17:01:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2008-11-10T17:13:56.987+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='birds'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='illustration'/><title type='text'>Woodpecker - Buntspecht - Flaggspetter</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3237/3019514686_32c77039c7.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 298px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 432px" alt="" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3237/3019514686_32c77039c7.jpg?v=0" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;I had no time to paint because of &lt;a href="http://my-sense-of-place.blogspot.com/2008/11/no-time-to-paint-part-two.html"&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://my-sense-of-place.blogspot.com/2008/11/no-time-to-paint.html"&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;. But today, I created bird no.4, a woodpecker. Just when I had finished breakfast, I saw him when I looked outside the kitchen window. He reminded me about my birdie project, and - indeed - his scientific name is " Dendrocopos major", bird for the letter "D"! So I had no excuse anymore, I had to paint a woodpecker.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-4635945488140320488?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/4635945488140320488/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=4635945488140320488&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/4635945488140320488'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/4635945488140320488'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2008/11/woodpecker-buntspecht-flaggspetter.html' title='Woodpecker - Buntspecht - Flaggspetter'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-3700362123145327168</id><published>2008-10-31T19:10:00.007+01:00</published><updated>2008-10-31T19:47:08.093+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Watercolour'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Samhain'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hommage á Hundertwasser'/><title type='text'>Samhain</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3229/2989855490_2008ef714a.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 281px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 287px" alt="" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3229/2989855490_2008ef714a.jpg?v=0" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;I'm celebrating Halloween - or better - Samhain (as the old celts named this festivity) in my own way: I prepare a Pumpkin soup, light a candle and hear some Irish or Celtic music (The Dubliners, Enya, Patrick Ball and his celtic harp or Irish folk music like &lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=XG3iZPopTRI"&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;)...Samhain means:"end of summer" and is the beginning of the dark winter months.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Happy Samhain to all!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-3700362123145327168?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/3700362123145327168/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=3700362123145327168&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/3700362123145327168'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/3700362123145327168'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2008/10/samhain.html' title='Samhain'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-1196039353249461552</id><published>2008-10-21T22:34:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2008-10-21T22:38:33.678+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='birds'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='illustration'/><title type='text'>Linnet</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3165/2962626672_c52e4b086a.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3165/2962626672_c52e4b086a.jpg?v=0" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Bird No.3 in the European Birds series: a linnet or Carduelis cannabina. I try to do the bird itself in a very natural style whereas the surroundings are more of a puristic, stylized and illustrative character.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-1196039353249461552?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/1196039353249461552/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=1196039353249461552&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/1196039353249461552'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/1196039353249461552'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2008/10/linnet.html' title='Linnet'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-1460148078996875320</id><published>2008-10-09T13:02:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2008-10-09T13:11:53.078+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='birds'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='illustration'/><title type='text'>Bohemian Waxwing</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3233/2926769286_555e501fc9.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3233/2926769286_555e501fc9.jpg?v=0" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3233/2926769286_555e501fc9.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I did another bird illustration in the "European birds" series. But as Joan Sandford-Cook already pointed out, it will be v e r y difficult for me to find birds with their scientific name beginning with X, Y, etc. -Maybe I will have to skip these letters...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ich habe eine neue Vogel-Illustration für die Serie "Europäische Vögel" gemacht; dieses Mal ist es ein Seidenschwanz. Aber wie Joan-Sandford-Cook in ihrem Kommentar letztens schon erwähnte, wird es sehr schwierig sein, Vögel zu finden, deren wissenschaftlicher Name mit X oder Y beginnt. Wahrscheinlich werde ich diese Buchstaben überspringen müssen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-1460148078996875320?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/1460148078996875320/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=1460148078996875320&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/1460148078996875320'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/1460148078996875320'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2008/10/bohemian-waxwing.html' title='Bohemian Waxwing'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-443153471617322186</id><published>2008-10-05T18:55:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2008-10-06T12:14:50.478+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Watercolour'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Autumn'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='illustration'/><title type='text'>Mushrooms</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3055/2915683076_5c66edd761.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3055/2915683076_5c66edd761.jpg?v=0" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;What I like best is going into the woods in autumn in search for mushrooms. As a child, I used to go with my parents and from an early age, I learned which mushrooms to collect and which to avoid. - Now my husband and I make these excursions and a few days ago, we had good luck and found some boletus. We had a splendid dinner with self-made apple purée in red wine, potato fritters and boletus with scrambled eggs and chives -all fresh from the garden and the woods!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;P.S.: Before preparing the meal, I had to paint the mushrooms!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Was ich im Herbst am liebsten mag: in den Wald gehen und Pilze sammeln. Als Kind ging ich schon mit meinen Eltern oft in den Wald und lernte früh, welche Pilze man sammeln und welche man lieber stehenlassen sollte. - Vor ein paar Tagen gingen nun mein Mann und ich in den Wald und wir hatten Glück und fanden ein paar Steinpilze. Wir hatten daraufhin ein wunderbares Abendessen mit selbstgemachtem Apfelkompott in Rotwein, Kartoffelrösti und Pilzen mit Rühreiern und Schnittlauch -alles frisch aus der Natur!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;P.S.: Bevor wir das Essen zubereiteten, mußte ich die Pilze malen!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-443153471617322186?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/443153471617322186/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=443153471617322186&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/443153471617322186'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/443153471617322186'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2008/10/mushrooms.html' title='Mushrooms'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-3188552506247419458</id><published>2008-09-27T12:46:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2008-09-27T12:59:09.725+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Watercolour'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ink'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='illustration'/><title type='text'>Kingfisher</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3134/2892151018_0e0a151ff4.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3134/2892151018_0e0a151ff4.jpg?v=0" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Another project came to my mind: birds from Europe and their scientific names from A to Z.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I started with "Alcedo atthis", the kingfisher.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;It will be available as a print in my new ETSY shop.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Collage, ink and watercolour on clear blue Canson "Mi-Teintes".&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-3188552506247419458?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/3188552506247419458/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=3188552506247419458&amp;isPopup=true' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/3188552506247419458'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/3188552506247419458'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2008/09/kingfisher.html' title='Kingfisher'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-5586035547680977274</id><published>2008-09-24T12:51:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2008-09-24T12:59:12.655+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3253/2884049099_5dfe72bf16.jpg?v=1222253197"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3253/2884049099_5dfe72bf16.jpg?v=1222253197" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is a combination of  an ink drawing,acrylic paint (the white), watercolour and watercolour pencils. I like how the bookpage gives additional texture to the painting.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-5586035547680977274?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/5586035547680977274/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=5586035547680977274&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/5586035547680977274'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/5586035547680977274'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2008/09/this-is-combination-of-ink.html' title=''/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-8316368853650370875</id><published>2008-09-23T12:49:00.006+02:00</published><updated>2008-09-24T13:12:02.675+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Watercolour'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Autumn'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='illustration'/><title type='text'>Another leaf</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3061/2882106410_104dfb83e6.jpg?v=1222254325"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3061/2882106410_104dfb83e6.jpg?v=1222254325" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3061/2882106410_9cb6220ea5.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;It seems to me that autumn has started very early this year...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-8316368853650370875?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/8316368853650370875/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=8316368853650370875&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/8316368853650370875'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/8316368853650370875'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2008/09/another-leaf.html' title='Another leaf'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-3796318114398176017</id><published>2008-09-22T18:44:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2008-09-22T18:53:53.533+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Autumn</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3219/2878829397_183d52a4d8.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3219/2878829397_183d52a4d8.jpg?v=0" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;One of the seasons I like so much is autumn. I love to go for a walk, collect leaves and bring them home to draw them. Some years ago, in October 2005, I tried to find 31 different trees and drew 31 leaves, day after day. I tried to identify every tree, so I could write down the scientific name. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;During that task, I learned a lot about the trees in my neighbourhood and about trees in general...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-3796318114398176017?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/3796318114398176017/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=3796318114398176017&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/3796318114398176017'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/3796318114398176017'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2008/09/autumn.html' title='Autumn'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-5173717524047751867</id><published>2008-09-20T18:51:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2008-09-20T19:02:16.322+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Munich'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Oktoberfest'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='illustration'/><title type='text'>Oktoberfest</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3208/2873119944_a976f73dcd.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3208/2873119944_a976f73dcd.jpg?v=0" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today, the "&lt;a href="http://www.oktoberfest.de/en/index.php"&gt;Oktoberfest&lt;/a&gt;" has started in Munich. Trains and subways are full of people from all over the world. 6 million visitors are expected to come this year. There is a saying that the indigenous people of Munich never visit the "Wies'n" (this is the local term for "Oktoberfest"). For those who are interested, the fest is open until the 5th of October.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-5173717524047751867?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/5173717524047751867/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=5173717524047751867&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/5173717524047751867'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/5173717524047751867'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2008/09/oktoberfest.html' title='Oktoberfest'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-1294908722555356625</id><published>2008-09-17T21:13:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2008-09-17T21:26:24.620+02:00</updated><title type='text'>ETSY shop launched</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3222/2865311383_9b36dd82ec.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3222/2865311383_9b36dd82ec.jpg?v=0" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;It was a little quiet here in my blog during the last few days. But now I'm happy to say that I launched my &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5621578"&gt;ETSY&lt;/a&gt; shop and I started a &lt;a href="http://www.my-sense-of-place.blogspot.com/"&gt;second blog &lt;/a&gt;with photos and links! The fantasy bird has fine golden details (they don't show in the scan) and will be available as a print like some of my earlier work, too. Have a wonderful week!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-1294908722555356625?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/1294908722555356625/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=1294908722555356625&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/1294908722555356625'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/1294908722555356625'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2008/09/etsy-shop-launched.html' title='ETSY shop launched'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-2973178034506472490</id><published>2008-09-07T20:23:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2008-09-07T20:30:00.490+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Coloured Pencils'/><title type='text'>House</title><content type='html'>&lt;img style="WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3146/2837116274_b5cee9ac2e.jpg?v=0" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt;Still thinking about the vacation near the Baltic sea, I have drawn this tiny house with coloured pencils on cold pressed watercolour paper.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-2973178034506472490?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/2973178034506472490/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=2973178034506472490&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/2973178034506472490'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/2973178034506472490'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2008/09/house.html' title='House'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-9197352526262269771</id><published>2008-09-03T11:00:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2008-09-04T20:54:28.343+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Watercolour'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Nature Journal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sketches'/><title type='text'>Arum maculatum</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3107/2824624548_8b3db1ff35.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3107/2824624548_8b3db1ff35.jpg?v=0" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3107/2824624548_8b3db1ff35.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="flickr-frame"&gt;&lt;a title="photo sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/claudia1de/2824624548/"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt;This is only a scribble to remember a plant I saw the first time in my life - Arum maculatum!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-9197352526262269771?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/9197352526262269771/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=9197352526262269771&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/9197352526262269771'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/9197352526262269771'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2008/09/arum-maculatum.html' title='Arum maculatum'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-838174011422941584</id><published>2008-08-28T23:35:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2008-08-28T23:39:55.128+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Watercolour'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Nature Journal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sketches'/><title type='text'>hollyhock</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="flickr-frame"&gt;&lt;a title="photo sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/claudia1de/2806297591/"&gt;&lt;img class="flickr-photo" alt="" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3184/2806297591_c69bc1af30.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt;Just a quick sketch, made in the garden....&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-838174011422941584?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/838174011422941584/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=838174011422941584&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/838174011422941584'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/838174011422941584'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2008/08/hollyhock.html' title='hollyhock'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3184/2806297591_c69bc1af30_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-7412409610436463308</id><published>2008-08-19T12:49:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2008-08-20T11:15:00.924+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pen and Ink'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sketches'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Travels'/><title type='text'>Roma, Via Gregorio VII</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="flickr-frame"&gt;&lt;img class="flickr-photo" alt="" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3291/2777951054_55412110ff.jpg" /&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="flickr-frame"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="flickr-frame"&gt;While waiting for the bus, I had time for this sketch... &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-7412409610436463308?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/7412409610436463308/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=7412409610436463308&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/7412409610436463308'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/7412409610436463308'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2008/08/roma-via-gregorio-vii.html' title='Roma, Via Gregorio VII'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3291/2777951054_55412110ff_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-299637182340796535</id><published>2008-08-16T11:04:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2008-08-16T11:06:53.849+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sketches'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Travels'/><title type='text'>Rome</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="flickr-frame"&gt;&lt;a title="photo sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/claudia1de/2767704026/"&gt;&lt;img class="flickr-photo" alt="" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3089/2767704026_e4546f0ca5.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt;After our stay at the Baltic sea, we visited Rome, but only for a few days. This is the side view of St.Peter's Basilica. The basilica is a bit crooked, I know, but nevertheless, this sketch reminds me of a beautiful day there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Nach unserem Aufenthalt an der Ostsee waren wir noch ein paar Tage in Rom. Dies ist die Seitenansicht des St.Petersdoms. Die Kuppel habe ich etwas schief gezeichnet, aber trotzdem erinnert mich die Skizze an einen schönen Tag dort.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-299637182340796535?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/299637182340796535/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=299637182340796535&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/299637182340796535'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/299637182340796535'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2008/08/rome.html' title='Rome'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3089/2767704026_e4546f0ca5_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-9074701396688086014</id><published>2008-08-14T20:48:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2008-08-14T20:54:21.044+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Watercolour'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Nature Journal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sketches'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Travels'/><title type='text'>Black-headed Gull</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="flickr-frame"&gt;&lt;a title="photo sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/claudia1de/2763546132/"&gt;&lt;img class="flickr-photo" alt="" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3008/2763546132_84cc7e3e36.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt;...still some impressions of the Baltic Sea...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;...noch ein paar Impressionen von der Ostsee...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-9074701396688086014?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/9074701396688086014/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=9074701396688086014&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/9074701396688086014'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/9074701396688086014'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2008/08/black-headed-gull.html' title='Black-headed Gull'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3008/2763546132_84cc7e3e36_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-7994390307337562920</id><published>2008-08-13T08:24:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2008-08-13T08:37:30.837+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pastel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Travels'/><title type='text'>pastel painting</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3036/2759385134_fd2126bf0a.jpg?v=1218609388"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3036/2759385134_fd2126bf0a.jpg?v=1218609388" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="flickr-frame"&gt;&lt;a title="photo sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/claudia1de/2759385134/"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt;I made a photo of this lovely house near the baltic sea and tried to capture it's charme with pastels...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ich machte ein Photo von diesem schönen Haus und versuchte, seinen Charme einmal mit Pastelkreide einzufangen...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-7994390307337562920?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/7994390307337562920/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=7994390307337562920&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/7994390307337562920'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/7994390307337562920'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2008/08/pastel-painting.html' title='pastel painting'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-7453636114277801422</id><published>2008-08-12T15:33:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2008-08-12T15:34:58.070+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Watercolour'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sketches'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Travels'/><title type='text'>Baltic Sea</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="flickr-frame"&gt;&lt;a title="photo sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/claudia1de/2756923762/"&gt;&lt;img class="flickr-photo" alt="" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2010/2756923762_673c335f6d.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt;What I like about the Baltic Sea is the fact that you have woods close to the beach. So you can walk in the woods and suddenly see the sea. This was the case when I did this sketch - and I could have done a hundred more, because I l o v e these kind of landscapes. I remember having seen similar ones near the sea in Maine, USA...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Was ich an der Ostsee so sehr schätze ist, daß der Wald oft bis an den Strand heranreicht. So kann man im Wald spazierengehen und plötzlich das Meer sehen. Das war auch der Fall, als ich diese Skizze machte - und ich hätte hundert weitere machen können, so sehr liebe ich diese Art von Landschaften. Ich erinnere mich, daß ich ähnliche Natur in Maine, USA gesehen habe...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-7453636114277801422?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/7453636114277801422/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=7453636114277801422&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/7453636114277801422'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/7453636114277801422'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2008/08/baltic-sea.html' title='Baltic Sea'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2010/2756923762_673c335f6d_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-8407809383160236091</id><published>2008-08-08T11:44:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2008-08-08T11:45:16.785+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Watercolour'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sketches'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Travels'/><title type='text'>By the Sea</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="flickr-frame"&gt;&lt;a title="photo sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/claudia1de/2743936290/"&gt;&lt;img class="flickr-photo" alt="" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3177/2743936290_2a206346da.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt;At least...a view of the Baltic sea. - At the left, you can see a typical beach chair. The water temperature was 18 degrees C - about 64 degrees F...but nevertheless, we went for a swim.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Endlich,- die Ostsee! Links im Bild ein typischer Strandkorb. Die Wassertemperatur war 18 Grad, aber wir gingen trotzdem schwimmen.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-8407809383160236091?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/8407809383160236091/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=8407809383160236091&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/8407809383160236091'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/8407809383160236091'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2008/08/by-sea.html' title='By the Sea'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3177/2743936290_2a206346da_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-6061703933332346042</id><published>2008-08-05T13:18:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2008-08-05T13:32:59.615+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Watercolour'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sketches'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Travels'/><title type='text'>Alley with Trees</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3039/2735360490_0c7e795539.jpg?v=1217935717"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3039/2735360490_0c7e795539.jpg?v=1217935717" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3039/2735360490_0c7e795539.jpg?v=1217935717"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="flickr-frame"&gt;&lt;a title="photo sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/claudia1de/2735360490/"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt;Near the Baltic Sea in Germany, you find many kilometres of streets like this one. They seem to be green tunnels and if you drive on a hot summer day, it is quite pleasant to use these kind of streets...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Nahe der Ostsee gibt es in Deutschland viele Kilometer dieser Alleenstraßen. Sie erscheinen wie grüne Tunnel und wenn man an einem heißen Sommertag im Auto unterwegs ist, ist es sehr angenehm, diese Art von Straßen zu benutzen...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-6061703933332346042?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/6061703933332346042/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=6061703933332346042&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/6061703933332346042'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/6061703933332346042'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2008/08/alley-with-trees.html' title='Alley with Trees'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-7591795974346054358</id><published>2008-08-04T12:32:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2008-08-04T12:33:20.892+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sketches'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Travels'/><title type='text'>From my holiday sketchbook</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="flickr-frame"&gt;&lt;a title="photo sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/claudia1de/2730928815/"&gt;&lt;img class="flickr-photo" alt="" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3256/2730928815_c4d2d63d71.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt;Within the next weeks,I will post some of the sketches I made during my holidays. This is the landscape you see when you leave Berlin towards the Baltic Sea.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;In den nächsten Wochen werde ich einige Skizzen zeigen, die ich während unseres Urlaubs gemacht habe. Diese zeigt die Landschaft, wenn man Berlin verlassen hat und Richtung Ostsee fährt.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-7591795974346054358?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/7591795974346054358/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=7591795974346054358&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/7591795974346054358'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/7591795974346054358'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2008/08/from-my-holiday-sketchbook.html' title='From my holiday sketchbook'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3256/2730928815_c4d2d63d71_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-7221668882189601903</id><published>2008-08-02T12:36:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2008-08-02T13:19:55.316+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='awards'/><title type='text'>Weblog Award</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="flickr-frame"&gt;&lt;a title="photo sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/claudia1de/2722541835/"&gt;&lt;img class="flickr-photo" alt="" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3119/2722541835_ff046d9ae7.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt;I got this award from Joan (Sandford-Cook). Thank you so much, Joan! - Now my task is to nominate seven other bloggers. Here we go:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. &lt;a href="http://brittarnhildshouseinthewoods.typepad.com/"&gt;Britt-Arnhild&lt;/a&gt; for her beautiful photos and thoughtful blog entries&lt;br /&gt;2. &lt;a href="http://www.stevepenberthy.com/"&gt;Steve&lt;/a&gt; for his wonderful sketches and paintings&lt;br /&gt;3.&lt;a href="http://deefarnsworth.blogspot.com/"&gt; Dee&lt;/a&gt; 4.&lt;a href="http://julieoakley.blogspot.com/"&gt;Julie&lt;/a&gt; and 5.&lt;a href="http://rhcarpenter.blogspot.com/"&gt;RHCarpenter&lt;/a&gt; for the beautiful artwork they do,&lt;br /&gt;6. &lt;a href="http://sukipoet.blogspot.com/"&gt;Sukipoet&lt;/a&gt; for her work, art and words and&lt;br /&gt;7. &lt;a href="http://inviaggiocoltaccuino.blogspot.com/"&gt;Simo Capecchi &lt;/a&gt;for her lovely sketches and her blog, totally dedicated to drawing and sketching.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Congratulations! &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt;If you decide to participate, the rules of accepting are as follows:1) Put the logo on your blog.2) Add a link to the person who awarded you.3) Nominate at least 7 other blogs.4) Add links to those blogs on yours.5) Leave a message for your nominees on their blogs. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ich habe einen Blogger-Preis von Joan bekommen, vielen Dank! Jetzt ist es meine Aufgabe, sieben anderen Bloggern diesen Preis weiterzugeben. Und hier sind sie:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Britt-Arnhild für ihre wunderbaren Fotos und gedankenvollen Blog-Einträge&lt;br /&gt;2. Steve für seine schönen Skizzen und Bilder&lt;br /&gt;3. Dee 4.Julie und 5.RHCarpenter für ihre künstlerischen Arbeiten&lt;br /&gt;6. Sukipoet für Ihre Arbeiten, ihre Kunst und ihre Worte und&lt;br /&gt;7. Simo Capecchi für ihre schönen Skizzen und ihren Blog, der sich voll und ganz dem Zeichnen und Skizzieren verschrieben hat.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Herzliche Glückwünsche!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-7221668882189601903?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/7221668882189601903/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=7221668882189601903&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/7221668882189601903'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/7221668882189601903'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2008/08/weblog-award.html' title='Weblog Award'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3119/2722541835_ff046d9ae7_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-2603121619963405978</id><published>2008-07-31T11:55:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2008-07-31T11:59:38.861+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Watercolour'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sketches'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Travels'/><title type='text'>On Holiday</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="flickr-frame"&gt;&lt;a title="photo sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/claudia1de/2719522028/"&gt;&lt;img class="flickr-photo" alt="" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3167/2719522028_64e3c0fb2b.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt;Hello again,&lt;br /&gt;the internet is working and we just returned from our summer holidays. First, we spent some days by the Baltic Sea in Germany and later we visited Italy for another couple of days: we were in Rome and made trips to Ostia antica, Palestrina and Castel Gandolfo. Like always, time was far to short to draw and paint peacefully, so I took a lot of photos...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hallo,&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt;&lt;em&gt;das Internet funktioniert wieder und wir sind gerade von unserem Sommerurlaub zurückgekehrt. Wir verbrachten einige Tage an der Ostsee und danach einige Tage in Rom. Dort besuchten wir Ostia antica, Palestrina und Castel Gandolfo. Wie immer war die Zeit viel zu knapp, um in Ruhe zu zeichnen; also habe ich wieder viele Fotos gemacht...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-2603121619963405978?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/2603121619963405978/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=2603121619963405978&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/2603121619963405978'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/2603121619963405978'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2008/07/on-holiday.html' title='On Holiday'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3167/2719522028_64e3c0fb2b_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-2093928883390867533</id><published>2008-06-19T11:53:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2008-06-19T11:54:54.277+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Watercolour'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sketches'/><title type='text'>Reedroof Cottage</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="flickr-frame"&gt;&lt;a title="photo sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/claudia1de/2591766331/"&gt;&lt;img class="flickr-photo" alt="" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3121/2591766331_2fec402b3a.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt;We will change our Internet provider; this means that I will have no internet connection during the next 3 weeks. So I will have a break and hopefully spend the time drawing and painting. I'm looking forward to hearing from you again at the end of July. I wish you all bright and sunny summer days!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Wir werden unseren Internet-Provider wechseln, daher werde ich etwa 3 Wochen keinen Internet-Zugang haben. Ich werde also eine Pause machen und hoffentlich die Zeit nutzen, um viel zu zeichnen und zu malen. Ich freue mich darauf, Ende Juli wieder von allen Lesern zu hören. Ich wünsche allen schöne, sonnige Sommertage!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-2093928883390867533?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/2093928883390867533/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=2093928883390867533&amp;isPopup=true' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/2093928883390867533'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/2093928883390867533'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2008/06/reedroof-cottage.html' title='Reedroof Cottage'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3121/2591766331_2fec402b3a_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-7575164434847130257</id><published>2008-06-07T12:54:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2008-06-07T13:38:03.257+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Watercolour'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sketches'/><title type='text'>Experiments</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3275/2558314814_03998c849b.jpg?v=1212837455"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3275/2558314814_03998c849b.jpg?v=1212837455" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3275/2558314814_03998c849b.jpg?v=1212837455"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3129/2557492505_a724e2b9d4.jpg?v=1212837374"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3129/2557492505_a724e2b9d4.jpg?v=1212837374"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3275/2558314814_03998c849b.jpg?v=1212837455"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;At the moment, I feel an urge to use strong, bold colours. Maybe this is due to the warm weather and temperatures we had ultimately - or maybe this is an expression which comes from within? I first refused to paint in such a manner, but now I like it more and more. Maybe this is only temporarily, though...&lt;a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3129/2557492505_a724e2b9d4.jpg?v=1212837374"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3129/2557492505_a724e2b9d4.jpg?v=1212837374"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3129/2557492505_a724e2b9d4.jpg?v=1212837374" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3275/2558314814_ba76ed8317.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Im Augenblick verwende ich sehr gerne, starke, bunte Farben. Möglicherweise kommt das daher, daß wir zuletzt sehr schönes, warmes Wetter hatten - oder vielleicht ist das ja ein Ausdruck, der vom Inneren kommt... Erst habe ich mich dagegen gewehrt, so zu malen, aber jetzt mag ich es sogar. Doch vielleicht ist das ja nur eine Phase, die wieder vorübergeht... &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-7575164434847130257?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/7575164434847130257/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=7575164434847130257&amp;isPopup=true' title='13 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/7575164434847130257'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/7575164434847130257'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2008/06/experiments.html' title='Experiments'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>13</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-7377825449310906108</id><published>2008-05-31T21:16:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2008-05-31T21:17:21.747+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Watercolour'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Nature Journal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sketches'/><title type='text'>Wild Rose</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="flickr-frame"&gt;&lt;a title="photo sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/claudia1de/2539541326/"&gt;&lt;img class="flickr-photo" alt="" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3055/2539541326_fb20192813.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt;The wild roses are blooming! I tried to remember their beauty and made a sketch from memory. It didn't turn out exactly as I had expected it, but I had fun doing it, anyway...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Die Wildrosen blühen! Ich habe eine Erinnerungsskizze gemacht, aber das Bild ist nicht so geworden, wie ich es erwartet hatte. Egal, es hat trotzdem Spaß gemacht, so zu malen...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-7377825449310906108?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/7377825449310906108/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=7377825449310906108&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/7377825449310906108'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/7377825449310906108'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2008/05/wild-rose.html' title='Wild Rose'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3055/2539541326_fb20192813_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-973561353140481663</id><published>2008-05-26T10:45:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2008-05-26T10:47:07.747+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Watercolour'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sketches'/><title type='text'>Mountain Village</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="flickr-frame"&gt;&lt;a title="photo sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/claudia1de/2524010318/"&gt;&lt;img class="flickr-photo" alt="" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2268/2524010318_a14723d454.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt;I made this little sketch some days ago. It is based on a photo I found in a leaflet about the Alps. I would have preferred to do a "plein-air"-study, but had no time for it...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ich machte diese Skizze vor einigen Tagen. Als Vorlage nahm ich ein Photo aus einem Reiseheftchen über die Alpen. Ich hätte natürlich lieber eine Skizze irgendwo draußen vor Ort gemacht, aber dazu hatte ich keine Zeit...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-973561353140481663?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/973561353140481663/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=973561353140481663&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/973561353140481663'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/973561353140481663'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2008/05/mountain-village.html' title='Mountain Village'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2268/2524010318_a14723d454_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-1922697765209592288</id><published>2008-05-15T23:14:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2008-05-15T23:15:58.770+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Watercolour'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Nature Journal'/><title type='text'>The Old Cherry Tree</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="flickr-frame"&gt;&lt;a title="photo sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/claudia1de/2495773666/"&gt;&lt;img class="flickr-photo" alt="" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2109/2495773666_117d8398e1.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt;This is a small house in a little village nearby. In front of it, there is a wonderful, old cherry tree. Every spring I'm fascinated of the view...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Das ist ein kleines Haus in einem Dorf in der Nähe. Davor steht ein wunderbarer, alter Kirschbaum. Jeden Frühling bezaubert mich dieser Anblick...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-1922697765209592288?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/1922697765209592288/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=1922697765209592288&amp;isPopup=true' title='10 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/1922697765209592288'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/1922697765209592288'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2008/05/old-cherry-tree.html' title='The Old Cherry Tree'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2109/2495773666_117d8398e1_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>10</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-4641750028701844430</id><published>2008-05-10T21:53:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2008-05-10T21:55:04.606+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Watercolour'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sketches'/><title type='text'>Tulips</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="flickr-frame"&gt;&lt;a title="photo sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/claudia1de/2481393470/"&gt;&lt;img class="flickr-photo" alt="" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2111/2481393470_d2cf9736ac.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt;Another painting on Torchon paper. I like this paper more and more and I only regret that I haven't used it before...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Noch ein Aquarell auf Torchon Papier. Ich mag dieses Papier mehr und mehr und bedauere nur, daß ich es nicht schon früher verwendet habe...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-4641750028701844430?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/4641750028701844430/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=4641750028701844430&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/4641750028701844430'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/4641750028701844430'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2008/05/tulips.html' title='Tulips'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2111/2481393470_d2cf9736ac_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-182763226875010800</id><published>2008-05-03T17:48:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2008-05-03T17:49:48.582+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Watercolour'/><title type='text'>Working in the fields</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="flickr-frame"&gt;&lt;a title="photo sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/claudia1de/2461926100/"&gt;&lt;img class="flickr-photo" alt="" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2343/2461926100_48c8274b00.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt;I tried a new paper, "Guardi Artistico Torchon". I never used Torchon because of its rough surface. I always thought I couldn't draw a detailed sketch on it. I was very prejudiced, I admit. It was a joy to work on that paper; and - as you can see - it is very good for glazing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ich habe ein neues Papier ausprobiert, "Guardi Artistico Torchon". Ich habe Torchon nie vorher benutzt, weil es eine sehr rauhe Oberfläche hat. Ich dachte immer, ich könnte darauf keine detaillierten Skizzen anbringen. Ich hatte wirklich große Vorurteile, ich gebe es zu.&lt;br /&gt;Es war eine reine Freude, mit diesem Papier zu arbeiten und - das kann man sehen- es ist sehr geeignet für eine lasierende Malweise.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-182763226875010800?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/182763226875010800/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=182763226875010800&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/182763226875010800'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/182763226875010800'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2008/05/working-in-fields.html' title='Working in the fields'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2343/2461926100_48c8274b00_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-8527336241454075553</id><published>2008-04-25T21:50:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2008-04-25T21:52:04.832+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Watercolour'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Nature Journal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sketches'/><title type='text'>Painting from memory 2</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="flickr-frame"&gt;&lt;a title="photo sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/claudia1de/2440856861/"&gt;&lt;img class="flickr-photo" alt="" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2100/2440856861_9db155aba1.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt;When I came home from work today, I noticed a row of white daffodils beneath some trees. I was driving my car and therefore could only get a short glimpse of the scene at my left. Too bad, no pen, no camera, not even time for a second glance...So I had to "memorize" and sketched later, at home.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Als ich heute nach Hause fuhr, sah ich eine Reihe weißer Narzissen unter einigen Bäumen. Ich mußte mich auf das Autofahren konzentrieren und konnte deshalb nur einen ganz flüchtigen Blick auf die Szene werfen. Wirklich schade, kein Stift dabei, keine Kamera, und nicht einmal die Zeit, einen zweiten Blick zu riskieren...So mußte ich versuchen, das Gesehene im Gedächtnis zu speichern und skizzierte das Ganze später, zu Hause.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-8527336241454075553?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/8527336241454075553/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=8527336241454075553&amp;isPopup=true' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/8527336241454075553'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/8527336241454075553'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2008/04/painting-from-memory-2.html' title='Painting from memory 2'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2100/2440856861_9db155aba1_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-3338533693389017970</id><published>2008-04-23T22:40:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2008-04-23T22:51:14.446+02:00</updated><title type='text'>2008-04-23</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2250/2436591625_007e89ce62.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2250/2436591625_007e89ce62.jpg?v=0" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="flickr-frame"&gt;&lt;a title="photo sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/claudia1de/2436591625/"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt;My internet is soooo slow at the moment; I cannot visit my favourite blogs and sites; I have to "wait and drink tee" (old German proverb)...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Mein Internet ist sooooo langsam im Moment; ich kann meine Lieblingsblogs und -seiten nicht besuchen. Das einzige, was mir bleibt, ist "abwarten und Tee trinken"...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-3338533693389017970?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/3338533693389017970/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=3338533693389017970&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/3338533693389017970'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/3338533693389017970'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2008/04/2008-04-23.html' title='2008-04-23'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-5886737144073652965</id><published>2008-04-14T20:51:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2008-04-14T20:54:30.564+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Watercolour'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Nature Journal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sketches'/><title type='text'>Painting from Memory</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="flickr-frame"&gt;&lt;a title="photo sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/claudia1de/2414309154/"&gt;&lt;img class="flickr-photo" alt="" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3250/2414309154_799d7ab983.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt;In the book "Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting" by John F. Carlson I have read about the importance of memory paintings and sketches. He states: "Enough stress cannot be laid upon the importance of memory work" (Chapter 14, p.137). And later he says:"The memory exaggerates the essentials;(...)In painting from memory, the whole stress is laid on expressive agents. In direct from nature painting much useless lumber insinuates itself, interesting for its own sake, but derogatory to the whole." (ibid., P.137).&lt;br /&gt;When we made a walk last sunday, I saw a woman sitting on a bench under a huge fir tree. I almost immediately felt the urge to paint the scene. At home, I tried to paint what I had seen. This is the result. Funnily enough, I read the chapter in the book when I already had painted the scene...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;In dem Buch "Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting" von John F. Carlson las ich über die Wichtigkeit von aus dem Gedächtnis angefertigten Malereien und Skizzen. Er schreibt: "Man kann gar nicht genug Gewicht legen auf Arbeiten, die nach dem Gedächtnis gemacht werde." (Kap. 14, S. 137). Und später schreibt er: "In der Malerei nach der Erinnerung liegt das Hauptaugenmerk auf ausdrucksstarken Mitteln. Wenn man direkt vor der Natur malt schleichen sich in das Bild sozusagen viele unnütze Dinge ein, die -für sich selbst gesehen - zwar interessant -, dem Ganzen jedoch abträglich sind." (ibid., S. 137).  Als wir letzten Sonntag einen Spaziergang machten, sah ich eine Frau, die unter einer mächtigen Tanne auf einer Bank saß. Ich wollte diese Szene malen und fertigte dann zuhause eine Skizze nach der Erinnerung an. Dies ist das Ergebnis. Lustigerweise las ich das Kapitel in dem Buch erst, nachdem ich bereits die Skizze gemacht hatte...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-5886737144073652965?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/5886737144073652965/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=5886737144073652965&amp;isPopup=true' title='11 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/5886737144073652965'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/5886737144073652965'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2008/04/painting-from-memory.html' title='Painting from Memory'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3250/2414309154_799d7ab983_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>11</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-5132709875755819590</id><published>2008-04-11T12:42:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2008-04-11T12:44:05.452+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Watercolour'/><title type='text'>Spring</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="flickr-frame"&gt;&lt;a title="photo sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/claudia1de/2405432360/"&gt;&lt;img class="flickr-photo" alt="" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3006/2405432360_4805b51c00.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt;Recently, I had so much to do I couldn't think of drawing or painting. This makes me always very unhappy...Yesterday, I found a photo of my stepfather's garden I had taken a year ago and tried to capture that "spring" feeling, taking the photo as a starting point.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ich hatte zuletzt so viel zu tun, daß ich an Malen oder Zeichnen nicht denken konnte. Das macht mich immer sehr unglücklich...Gestern fand ich ein Foto, das den Garten meines Stiefvaters zeigt. Ich hatte es vor einem Jahr aufgenommen und versuchte, dieses gefühl des "Frühlings" einzufangen, indem ich das Photo als Ausgangspunkt benutzte.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-5132709875755819590?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/5132709875755819590/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=5132709875755819590&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/5132709875755819590'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/5132709875755819590'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2008/04/spring.html' title='Spring'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3006/2405432360_4805b51c00_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-7868352793233140658</id><published>2008-03-29T22:18:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2008-03-29T22:22:50.093+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Watercolour'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sketches'/><title type='text'>Waterbrush</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="flickr-frame"&gt;&lt;a title="photo sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/claudia1de/2372222330/"&gt;&lt;img class="flickr-photo" alt="" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3130/2372222330_c338995766.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt;Today I tried to paint with a sort of waterbrush from Pilot, Japan. The brush leads to a very dotty kind of style and you can only paint very tiny sketches, because the water doesn't come out of the brush very steadily. I tried waterbrushes from "Aquaflo" and Letraset, too. They work more or less in the same way than the Pilot waterbrush. I wonder if the famous "Niji" waterbrush is a better choice...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Heute habe ich versucht, mit einem sogenannten "Wasserpinsel" von Pilot zu malen. Er wird mit Wasser gefüllt und gibt bei leichtem Druck Wasser ab, so daß man damit malen kann, ohne einen Wasserbehälter benutzen zu müssen. Der Pinsel führt allerdings zu einem sehr impressionistischen "Tupfen"-Stil. Außerdem kann man nur Miniskizzen damit machen, weil das Wasser nicht immer gleichmäßig aus dem Pinsel herausfließt. Ich habe auch von Letraset und von "Aquaflo" Wasserpinsel probiert; sie haben in etwa die gleichen Eigenschaften. Ich frage mich, ob der berühmte "Niji"-Wasserpinsel vielleicht eine bessere Wahl wäre...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-7868352793233140658?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/7868352793233140658/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=7868352793233140658&amp;isPopup=true' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/7868352793233140658'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/7868352793233140658'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2008/03/2008-03-29.html' title='Waterbrush'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3130/2372222330_c338995766_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-3706432961376334564</id><published>2008-03-24T17:48:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2008-03-24T17:49:12.114+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Happy Easter!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="flickr-frame"&gt;&lt;a title="photo sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/claudia1de/2357768235/"&gt;&lt;img class="flickr-photo" alt="" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2164/2357768235_11b1aed25a.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt;Although it is a little late, I wish everyone a Happy Easter! The Forsythias are blooming now; I made a quick sketch of them in my Moleskine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Obwohl es schon etwas spät ist, wünsche ich allen Frohe Ostern! Die Forsythien blühen jetzt und ich skizzierte sie mit Aquarellfarben in meinen Moleskine-Kalender.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-3706432961376334564?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/3706432961376334564/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=3706432961376334564&amp;isPopup=true' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/3706432961376334564'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/3706432961376334564'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2008/03/happy-easter.html' title='Happy Easter!'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2164/2357768235_11b1aed25a_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-269907241139327429</id><published>2008-03-21T19:20:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2008-03-21T19:23:05.921+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Watercolour'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Nature Journal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sketches'/><title type='text'>Sweet Violets</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="flickr-frame"&gt;&lt;a title="photo sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/claudia1de/2349624885/"&gt;&lt;img class="flickr-photo" alt="" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2261/2349624885_6cd3ef9f51.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt;I found the first Sweet Violets today in the lawn near the house. I had to look twice, because they were realtively difficult to make out, but there they bloomed, no doubt...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ich habe die ersten Veilchen gesehen, heute, im Rasen vor den Haus. Ich mußte zweimal hinsehen; sie waren schwer auszumachen in diesem grünen Feld, aber da blühten sie, kein Zweifel...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-269907241139327429?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/269907241139327429/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=269907241139327429&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/269907241139327429'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/269907241139327429'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2008/03/sweet-violets.html' title='Sweet Violets'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2261/2349624885_6cd3ef9f51_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-878197344211795738</id><published>2008-03-16T17:55:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2008-03-16T17:57:24.401+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Watercolour'/><title type='text'>Hyacinthus Orientalis</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="flickr-frame"&gt;&lt;a title="photo sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/claudia1de/2338067788/"&gt;&lt;img class="flickr-photo" alt="" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2125/2338067788_6eec3e3df7.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt;My husband bought me a Hyacinthus some days ago. I made a quick sketch today. I found the information that the Hyacinth is native to Iran and that the prophet Mohammed is reported to have said “If I had but two loaves of bread, I would sell one and buy hyacinths, for they would feed my soul."...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Mein Mann schenkte mir vor einigen Tagen Hyacinthen. heute skizzierte ich sie mit Aquarellfarben. Die Hyazinthe kommt ursprünglich aus dem Iran und man sagt, der Prophet Mohammed habe gesagt: "Wenn ich zwei Laibe Brot hätte, würde ich einen verkaufen und Hyazinthen kaufen, denn sie würden meine Seele nähren."...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-878197344211795738?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/878197344211795738/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=878197344211795738&amp;isPopup=true' title='10 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/878197344211795738'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/878197344211795738'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2008/03/hyacinthus-orientalis.html' title='Hyacinthus Orientalis'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2125/2338067788_6eec3e3df7_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>10</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-7164003888893738578</id><published>2008-03-12T22:22:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2008-03-12T22:58:11.577+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Watercolour'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Winter'/><title type='text'>2008-03-12</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="flickr-frame"&gt;&lt;a title="photo sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/claudia1de/2329077385/"&gt;&lt;img class="flickr-photo" alt="" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2186/2329077385_6dfc1ee38d.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt;I still can't stop painting "snowy" landscapes. When I read the blog of a fellow blogger, I saw a wonderful photo of these houses and the church in the snow. I just h a d to paint it. If you want to see the original photo, go to Britt-Arnhilds blog:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://brittarnhildshouseinthewoods.typepad.com/brittarnhilds_house_in_th/2008/03/houses-at-rro-1.html#comments"&gt;http://brittarnhildshouseinthewoods.typepad.com/brittarnhilds_house_in_th/2008/03/houses-at-rro-1.html#comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ich kann immer noch nicht aufhören, Schneelandschaften zu malen. Als ich den letzten Eintrag einer Blog-Bekannten las, sah ich ein wunderbares Photo dieser Häuser und der Kirche im Schnee. Ich m u ß t e das einfach malen. Das Originalphoto ist von Britt-Arnhild. Hier ist ihr Blog:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://brittarnhildshouseinthewoods.typepad.com/brittarnhilds_house_in_th/2008/03/houses-at-rro-1.html#comments"&gt;http://brittarnhildshouseinthewoods.typepad.com/brittarnhilds_house_in_th/2008/03/houses-at-rro-1.html#comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-7164003888893738578?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/7164003888893738578/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=7164003888893738578&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/7164003888893738578'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/7164003888893738578'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2008/03/2008-03-12.html' title='2008-03-12'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2186/2329077385_6dfc1ee38d_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-3508830842007130253</id><published>2008-03-09T00:13:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2008-03-09T00:19:57.646+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Watercolour'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sketches'/><title type='text'>Flower</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="flickr-frame"&gt;&lt;a title="photo sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/claudia1de/2319048461/"&gt;&lt;img class="flickr-photo" alt="" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2051/2319048461_c77c19c16b.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt;...another Anemone...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;...wieder eine Anemone....&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-3508830842007130253?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/3508830842007130253/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=3508830842007130253&amp;isPopup=true' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/3508830842007130253'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/3508830842007130253'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2008/03/flower.html' title='Flower'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2051/2319048461_c77c19c16b_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-7887656967756529629</id><published>2008-03-04T13:04:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2008-03-04T13:04:55.665+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Watercolour'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sketches'/><title type='text'>From my sketchbook</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="flickr-frame"&gt;&lt;a title="photo sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/claudia1de/2310151700/"&gt;&lt;img class="flickr-photo" alt="" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2060/2310151700_540a98792f.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt;Here I am again with a more botanical study of some flowers I bought some days ago...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hier bin ich wieder; dieses Mal mit einer genaueren Pflanzenstudie von Blumen, die ich mir vor einigen Tagen gekauft habe...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-7887656967756529629?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/7887656967756529629/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=7887656967756529629&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/7887656967756529629'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/7887656967756529629'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2008/03/from-my-sketchbook.html' title='From my sketchbook'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2060/2310151700_540a98792f_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-4051363738616773665</id><published>2008-03-01T20:47:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2008-03-01T20:56:37.830+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Watercolour'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Abstract'/><title type='text'>Ranunculus</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2168/2302913668_8954350b7a.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2168/2302913668_8954350b7a.jpg?v=0" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2168/2302913668_8954350b7a.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2168/2302913668_8954350b7a.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2168/2302913668_8954350b7a.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:0;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="flickr-frame"&gt;&lt;a title="photo sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/claudia1de/2302116277/"&gt;&lt;img class="flickr-photo" height="398" alt="" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2060/2302116277_392856d8ff.jpg" width="403" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt;I paint traditional a n d abstract watercolours almost every day now. It seems that my "traditionals" get more and more abstract and my "abstracts" more representational...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ich male jetzt fast jeden Tag traditionelle u n d abstrakte Aquarelle. Die traditionellen werden mit der Zeit etwas abstrakter und die abstrakten etwas gegenständlicher...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-4051363738616773665?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/4051363738616773665/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=4051363738616773665&amp;isPopup=true' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/4051363738616773665'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/4051363738616773665'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2008/03/ranunculus.html' title='Ranunculus'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2060/2302116277_392856d8ff_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-76210741604782997</id><published>2008-02-29T11:28:00.006+01:00</published><updated>2008-03-01T21:01:23.103+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Photos'/><title type='text'>A gift from a dear friend</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3169/2300099572_04650c5d62.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3169/2300099572_04650c5d62.jpg?v=0" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2249/2300099480_1d67f3031b.jpg?v=0" border="0" /&gt; My dear friend &lt;a href="http://miaslandliv.blogspot.com/"&gt;Mia &lt;/a&gt;from Norway send me this wonderful, stitched heart! Thank you so much, Mia!- She has a marvellous blog which deals with interior decoration, gardening, patchwork, quilting and country living in general! Her photos are so beautiful and stimulating that I no longer feel the necessity to buy appropriate magazines... &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;You can visit Mias blog at:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://miaslandliv.blogspot.com/"&gt;http://miaslandliv.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Meine liebe Freundin Mia aus Norwegen hat mir dieses wunderschöne, gestickte Herz geschickt. Ganz herlichen Dank dafür, ich habe mich sehr gefreut! Mia hat einen wunderbaren blog über Innendekoration, Gartenarbeit, Patchwork, Quilting und Country Living im allgemeinen. Ihre Photos sind so schön und anregend, daß ich keine einschlägigen Zeitschriften mehr kaufen muß, seitdem ich ihren blog gefunden habe...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Mias blog: &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://miaslandliv.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;em&gt;http://miaslandliv.blogspot.com/&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-76210741604782997?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/76210741604782997/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=76210741604782997&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/76210741604782997'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/76210741604782997'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2008/02/gift-from-dear-friend.html' title='A gift from a dear friend'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-8561542082452799701</id><published>2008-02-23T18:37:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2008-02-23T18:38:30.027+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Watercolour'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Nature Journal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sketches'/><title type='text'>Crocus</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="flickr-frame"&gt;&lt;a title="photo sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/claudia1de/2285621557/"&gt;&lt;img class="flickr-photo" alt="" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3101/2285621557_148760fd11.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt;I see signs of spring everywhere now and I found the first Crocus some days ago in my garden.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Überall kann man jetzt erste Frühlingsanzeichen sehen und ich fand vor ein paar Tagen den ersten Krokus in meinem Garten.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-8561542082452799701?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/8561542082452799701/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=8561542082452799701&amp;isPopup=true' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/8561542082452799701'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/8561542082452799701'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2008/02/crocus.html' title='Crocus'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3101/2285621557_148760fd11_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-1316031248098995465</id><published>2008-02-21T13:33:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2008-02-21T13:37:46.347+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Watercolour'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Winter'/><title type='text'>Back to traditional watercolours!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2404/2280959081_d28b95321b.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2404/2280959081_d28b95321b.jpg?v=0" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="flickr-frame"&gt;&lt;a title="photo sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/claudia1de/2280959081/"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt;This is a watercolour based on a book cover "Perspective Secrets"by Phil Metzger.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Dieses Aquarell ist die Kopie eines Bucheinbandes "Perspective Secrets" von Phil Metzger.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-1316031248098995465?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/1316031248098995465/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=1316031248098995465&amp;isPopup=true' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/1316031248098995465'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/1316031248098995465'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2008/02/back-to-traditional-watercolours.html' title='Back to traditional watercolours!'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-2759221028228716476</id><published>2008-02-16T13:45:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2008-02-16T13:46:20.333+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Watercolour'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Abstract'/><title type='text'>Abstract 3</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="flickr-frame"&gt;&lt;a title="photo sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/claudia1de/2268979156/"&gt;&lt;img class="flickr-photo" alt="" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2025/2268979156_041c5e2121.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt;Here I used Guardi Artistico Aquarello Postcard Watercolour Paper (250g). It is not very good for that purpose, because the colours sink in almost immediately and that leads to sharp edges you cannot correct afterwards...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hier verwendete ich Guardi Artistico Aquarello Postcard Paper (250g). Es eignet sich nicht sehr gut für diese Malweise, da die Farben sofort in das Papier einsinken und das führt dazu, daß man scharfe Ränder bekommt, die man nicht mehr korrigieren kann...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-2759221028228716476?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/2759221028228716476/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=2759221028228716476&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/2759221028228716476'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/2759221028228716476'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2008/02/abstract-3.html' title='Abstract 3'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2025/2268979156_041c5e2121_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-6174545205251203911</id><published>2008-02-15T21:47:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2008-02-15T23:46:09.779+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Watercolour'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Abstract'/><title type='text'>Abstract 2</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2064/2266980357_c4e37ca3de.jpg?v=1203108725"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2064/2266980357_c4e37ca3de.jpg?v=1203108725" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2064/2266980357_c4e37ca3de.jpg?v=1203108725"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="flickr-frame"&gt;&lt;a title="photo sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/claudia1de/2266980357/"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt;Here is another abstract watercolour I did yesterday. This time I used hot pressed watercolour paper from Fabriano (Artistico extra white, 300g - 140lbs), whereas in the other abstract painting, I had used Arches cold pressed watercolour paper, 300g -140 lbs (Arches postcards).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hier noch ein abstraktes Aquarell. Dieses Mal verwendete ich "hot pressed" Aquarellpapier von Fabriano; bei dem letzten Bild hatte ich "cold pressed" Aquarellpapier von Arches benutzt.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-6174545205251203911?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/6174545205251203911/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=6174545205251203911&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/6174545205251203911'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/6174545205251203911'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2008/02/abstract-2.html' title='Abstract 2'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-1530903439056309629</id><published>2008-02-14T23:02:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2008-02-14T23:04:30.767+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Watercolour'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Abstract'/><title type='text'>Little Abstract Landscape</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="flickr-frame"&gt;&lt;a title="photo sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/claudia1de/2265077689/"&gt;&lt;img class="flickr-photo" alt="" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2395/2265077689_6f9f8531b8.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt;Ultimately, I try to see abstract forms and structures in landscape and nature in general. But creating an abstract painting is as difficult as painting a naturalistic one, or maybe it is even more difficult to make...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;In letzter Zeit versuche ich, abstrakte Formen und Strukturen aus der Landschaft und der Natur im Allgemeinen herauszulesen. Aber ein abstraktes Bild zu malen ist mindestens so schwierig wie ein naturalistisches zu machen; vielleicht sogar noch schwieriger...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-1530903439056309629?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/1530903439056309629/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=1530903439056309629&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/1530903439056309629'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/1530903439056309629'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2008/02/little-abstract-landscape.html' title='Little Abstract Landscape'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2395/2265077689_6f9f8531b8_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-3983209467802451866</id><published>2008-02-12T19:49:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2008-02-12T19:51:29.005+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Watercolour'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sketches'/><title type='text'>München - Munich</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="flickr-frame"&gt;&lt;a title="photo sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/claudia1de/2260389621/"&gt;&lt;img class="flickr-photo" alt="" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2299/2260389621_1d8d72b4f8.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="flickr-yourcomment"&gt;I made a quick sketch of Munich. I tried not to go into details; I wanted to capture an overall impression of the city.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ich habe eine schnelle Aquarellskizze von München angefertigt. Ich achtete darauf, mich nicht zu sehr in Details zu verlieren. Ich wollte mit der Skizze einen Gesamteindruck der Stadt darstellen.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-3983209467802451866?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/3983209467802451866/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=3983209467802451866&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/3983209467802451866'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/3983209467802451866'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2008/02/mnchen-munich.html' title='München - Munich'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2299/2260389621_1d8d72b4f8_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16841087.post-6397431919920292046</id><published>2008-02-09T12:30:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-02-09T14:01:46.828+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Watercolour'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Colours'/><title type='text'>Colours</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2306/2251698585_fde16f93f4.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2306/2251698585_fde16f93f4.jpg?v=0" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2217/2251697963_090ae8e788.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2217/2251697963_090ae8e788.jpg?v=0" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2301/2251698061_66c087aa38.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2301/2251698061_66c087aa38.jpg?v=0" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2289/2251698351_db41ee4f33.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2289/2251698351_db41ee4f33.jpg?v=0" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2131/2252496838_bbd4b0fe38.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2131/2252496838_bbd4b0fe38.jpg?v=0" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2252/2252497142_66a8e50738.jpg?v=0" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I had the idea to make a chart of all the colours I posess to get an overall view of them. I don't use them all; sometimes I use some of them and a month later, I substitute them again with others. - I was interested in making a note of the lightfastness and the pigments used. It was quite a lot of work.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;I didn't use the lightfastness notes of the corresponding manufacturer, but made a new evaluation to get an overall view of the lightfastness of the different colours to have the possibility to compare each other.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;The best lightfastness was marked with four asterisks, three asterisks mean very good lightfastness; two mean good lightfastness and "0!" means that the colour is not lightfast and should be avoided (f.e. Alizarin Crimson). At the upper left, I noted the number of the corresponding colour chart. At the lower left, you can find the international abbreviation of the pigments used in the colour.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Here is a list of the manufacturer of the colours:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;1. Winsor &amp;amp; Newton (W.) &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.winsornewton.com/main.aspx?PageID=269"&gt;http://www.winsornewton.com/main.aspx?PageID=269&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;2. Schmincke (S) &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.schmincke.de/media/pdf/01-2007/06-4371-Horadam.pdf"&gt;http://www.schmincke.de/media/pdf/01-2007/06-4371-Horadam.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;3. Lukas&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lukas.eu/1/FK/OF_Aquarell%201862.pdf"&gt;http://www.lukas.eu/1/FK/OF_Aquarell%201862.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;4. Kremer&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.kremer-pigmente.de/shopint/"&gt;http://www.kremer-pigmente.de/shopint/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;5. Old Holland&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;6. Talens Rembrandt&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.talens.com/uploads/products/{AA9B8F0A-8BE1-456E-AC45-2CFADC1AEE9A}_C_GER.pdf"&gt;http://www.talens.com/uploads/products/{AA9B8F0A-8BE1-456E-AC45-2CFADC1AEE9A}_C_GER.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;and 7. Ferrario-Tintoretto &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.apaferrario.it/document/upload/PDF_Categoria_ITA/097_130_acq_tempera.pdf"&gt;http://www.apaferrario.it/document/upload/PDF_Categoria_ITA/097_130_acq_tempera.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ich hatte die Idee, eine Tabelle aller meiner Aquarellfarben anzulegen, um eine gewisse Übersicht zu bekommen. Ich verwende sie natürlich nicht alle, manchmal benutze ich einige, um sie einen Monat später wieder durch andere zu ersetzten. Ich wollte auch den Grad der Lichtechtheit notieren und die Pigmente, die für die Herstellung der einzelnen Farben verwendet wurden.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ich habe nicht die Lichtechtheits-Markierungen der einzelnen Hersteller übernommen; sondern sie in eine neueTabelle überführt, die es erlaubt, die einzelen Farben in ihrer Lichtechtheit ungefähr zu vergleichen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Die beste Lichtechtheit bekam vier Sternchen, eine sehr gute immerhin drei; zwei Sternchen stehen für gute Lichtechtheit und "0!" für Farben, die nicht lichtecht sind und die man vermeiden sollte (z.B. Alizarin Crimson).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Oben links notierte ich die Farbnummer der jeweiligen Farbkarte. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Unten links steht die internationale Abkürzung der Pigmente, die für die Herstellung der Farbe benutzt wurden.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Die Herstellerliste ist folgende:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;1. Winsor &amp;amp; Newton&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;2. Schmincke&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;3. Lukas&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;4. Kremer&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;5. Old Holland&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;6. Talens -Rembrandt&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;und 7. Ferrario - Tintoretto.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;(Die einzelnen Links der Hersteller kann man oben im englischsprachigen Teil anklicken).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/16841087-6397431919920292046?l=time-passages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/feeds/6397431919920292046/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=16841087&amp;postID=6397431919920292046&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/6397431919920292046'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/16841087/posts/default/6397431919920292046'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://time-passages.blogspot.com/2008/02/colours.html' title='Colours'/><author><name>Claudia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07953623269887572650</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdebcNXkurM/SLZ3LN4ARjI/AAAAAAAAAoE/KkSoIRIW8eA/S220/me3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry></feed>
