The Painter
Growing up in beautiful Vienna, Austria, always exposed to art I was always interested in painting and drawing but didn’t pursue it beyond childhood scribbles.
After school I moved to Canada to become a Visual Effects artist and since then I worked as a lead texture artist on many of the big movies of the past years including StarWars, Jurassic world, James Bond, Transformers, Spiderman and Game of Thrones.
A lot of computer work and the pandemic time lead me to giving traditional painting a real try.
Understanding the important of light from my career as a VFX artist I was immediately only interested in painting from real life.
Learning from Nature
Breath taking views are a bonus for any painting but even a little rock or tree can be a captivating challenge to improve your skill.
Painting from Life (Light)
Painting is all about light. The human eye is able to register an unfadable amount of information. At the beginning I painted a few paintings from photographs but very quickly I was not satisfied with the limitations of using photos as reference material and moved on to painting from life. Or in other words, painting from light. It was very quickly apparent that the only way to achieve mastery of light is to understand how light behaves. A photograph is an extremely limited and filtered slice of all the information that your eyes can extract from real light. And not only light but also depth and perspective are perceived entirely differently.
