m-nude and zebra - window VII

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Acrylics on wood

80 x 40 cm

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dudess - window VI

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Acrylics on wood

~ 40 x 40 cm

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dude - window V

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Acrylics on wood

~ 40 x 40 cm

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m-nude

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Acrylics on ply wood

~ 60 x 30 cm

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Jack the heartbreaker

This is Jack,

one of the poodles of a dear friend.

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Pastels and love on black paper

~ 30 x 30 cm

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OMG - A Shark! In my livingroom!! - Window IV

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Acrylics on canvaspanel

80 x 60 cm

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Dog Sayings - Book released

Whoohooo, 

one of my paintings was chosen as an illustration in the book *Dog Sayings*.

Artists fom 50 countries are involved.

Short description:

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New Book Dedicated to the Dog Lover is Released Featuring Dog Art from Around the Globe “DOG SAYINGS: wit & wisdom from man’s best friend” is a collection of dog art and text that is dedicated to celebrating dogs in all of their glory 

This dog art book showcases artwork and the funniest, most insightful, and most heart-warming quotations about dogs. 

This collaborative publication has two goals in mind: 

first, to honor and highlight man’s best friend though text and artwork, 

and secondly, to showcase talents of new and emerging artists. 

In February 2010, both professional and nonprofessional, were invited to submit their work to be a part of this dog book. 

The end result includes 50 artists from countries including the US, UK, Canada, Scotland, Australia, Germany, Russia and Switzerland. 

DOG SAYINGS features a variety of artistic styles including dog photography, illustrations, and paintings. 

If you love dogs you will love this book. 

If you love art you will love this book. 

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Tabea and Pepe

Another two nursery pictures created for an upcoming christmas market:

Tabea the little witch with Kalle (owl) and Sweeper (broom):

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Acrylic and sparkling powder on wood

45 x 80 cm

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Pepe the pirate:

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Acrylic on wood

30 x 30 cm

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Window III

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Acryl on wood

30 x 60 cm

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Fence I

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Acrylics on wood
60 x 30 cm
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Window II

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Acrylics on wood

30 x 60 cm

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Window I

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Acrylics on wood

60 x 30 cm

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Santa Clown (+o+)

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Acrylics on wood

30 x 30 cm

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Santa Fungus :o)

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Acrylics on wood

30 x 30 cm

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Higher Goal

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Acrylics on Wood
30 x 30 cm
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Fungi Family

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Acrylics on wood
84 x 40 cm

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Natural desaster

Thinking the level of joy I am feeling
indicates the level of awareness,
I am trapped in a natural desaster.

Holding up a one-way mirror
indicates MY OWN hidingplace
I am likewise trapped in projection.

Sometimes a story told from the heart
indicates more consciousness
than intentionally no words from the mind.

Kornelia

A surprise for my friend Kornelia, 

who is in hospital right now.

Instead of flowers so to speak :o)
Detail:

Foto used as reference:

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Acrylics on wood

36 x 50 cm

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A poem by Benno

In brilliant fashion do you frame the light
Its hard to know its you, though it just might
Many here love to talk , even venture to walk
They say break me,
gently though
Touch me ,
softly now
heal me,
lovingly so
My broken dreams ,my silent cry
Love me , fill my emptiness
Thirsty, Maddening
The eternal spring beckons
What blocks its flow
Is what I need to know
What is that song I hear
I dance ,we dance
in dance we now don't fear 

~Benno


thanks Benno!

Ein Männlein steht im Walde ...

Ein Männlein steht im Walde ganz still und stumm,
Es hat von lauter Purpur ein Mäntlein um.
Sagt, wer mag das Männlein sein,
Das da steht im Wald allein
Mit dem purpurroten Mäntelein.

Das Männlein steht im Walde auf einem Bein
Und hat auf seinem Haupte schwarz Käpplein klein,
Sagt, wer mag das Männlein sein,
Das da steht im Wald allein
Mit dem kleinen schwarzen Käppelein?

Das Männlein dort auf einem Bein
Mit seinem roten Mäntelein
Und seinem schwarzen Käppelein
Kann nur die Hagebutte sein.

~ August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben

 

Tinny Snowman???

Marvin desperately wants to belong ...

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Detail:

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Acrylics and ink on board

~ 60 x 40 cm

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Fulfilling oneself

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Fulfilling oneself

Free as the wind that I am
Joyful as the bird that I am
Warm as the sun that I am
Peaceful as the tree that I am

I am fulfilled as All that I am
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Satya II

I tried again :-)

Detail:

 Whole Painting:

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water color, acrylics and colored pencil on paper
~ 50 x 60 cm
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Satya

Satya:

I experimented with a new technique and painted on a very rough medium.

I am not really satisfied with the painting as a whole, 

although it was a pleasure to paint this cute guy!!

Here is the pic as whole (the waves are a screen artefact):

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Acrylics on high density fibre board

50 x 62 cm 

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Poppies, tulips, leaves and rubber boots :-)

A stillife and flowers, and a drawing of divers leaves.

Acryl (first time for me) on canvas, 30 x 20 cm

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Gouache (first time for me) on paper, 30 x 20 cm

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Water color on canvas, 30 x 20 cm

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Colored pencil on paper, 30 x 20 cm

The love of my life is life

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..(_.^._)

Today life wants to be lived fully
savoring every second
like the last drop of water in the desert
My skin like a grown-out skirt
too small for this big, ever expanding entity
moving me through the world

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Today life wants to be lived silently
savoring every second
like the last moment of stillness
My skin dangling like an over-sized skirt
too big for this essence-concentrated entity
moving me through the inner field

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The love of my life is life

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..(_.^._)

toscana in colors

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Water color and joy on paper

~ 30 x 24 cm

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Vancouver ET TV attendees :-)

I had to wait for some colors get dry and made a quick sketch in the meantime.

Not perfect, but ... it was fun!

Kev, Ford, Dorian, Benno, Ali

Purr

In a purrple purradise
we are all a purrt of the purrfect spurr

wouff - says the dog
lets go to the pleasure grounds, eeehm, purrk
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.....C' °° 'O.....
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Again I was in absolute color-mode yesterday 

and let the brush dance over the paper.
And again this was inspired by Clarissa Pinkola Estes 

and her book Der Tanz der Großen Mutter – The Dancing Grandmothers

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water color and Gouache on paper
54×60 cm
9/2010
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Detail:

Vessels of Love: testing one...

>>> Vessels of Love video <<<

Doreen shows her handmade,

filled up with love vessels in that youtube video.

She explains how the pieces come into existence through her.

HA! I am a proud owner of such a beautiful vessel.

massai

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water color and water color pencil on paper

20 x 40 cm

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The Parting - a poem by justme - Homage to Aisling and Olli

Like a little boat on a vast ocean
bumping and thrashing wave upon wave knowing not where she goes.
Not able to stop, or steer or slow.
She rides the waves of life,first she ascends so high and then rockets to the hardened low.
Again and again and again , thumping, churning the dark dense cold.
She asked not for this journey.
She wished only to stay on land.
Her sons they cling to the sides looking for mother to take them home.
Fathers gone they must stay the course, of waves, of life,of death.
They must stay the course until one day the waves fall lighter and eventually sit still.
For now not even love can break the power of the waves.
For love is lost.
The light for now is gone.
The sun may shine but never will it warm.
Take my hand dear woman that I might lead you upon the shore.
For your home awaits you though your heart so forlorn.
I am the constant and the brave.
Place your head upon my chest.
Hush now woman of the universe,
dry your childrens tears
be still my child and just you rest.
Close your eyes and let us move with the waves,
surrender to the moment,the movement, this life
For you are a brave and perfect mother, lover, wife.

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Water color, water color pencils and white Gouache on paper

54 x 60 cm

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Merging of 3

I paint that picture
to show what I feel

You watch that picture
and realise what you feel

Creation becomes real
when shown and realised match

Creator and beholder become ONE
through the heART

quak

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Aquarell auf Papier, 40 x 30

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Are my Silk stockings dry yet?????

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water color and FUN on paper,

64 x 50 cm

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a poem by justme, reflecting on the stony mermaid

On the waters edge she lies, exposed and free.
At Kavourotripes she lay down beside the frothy sea.
Dimpled bumps and dips mark her naked stony flesh.
Hand stretched forth her back deflects the land of man
Every now and then she awakes...when no human eye beholds
to the caress of the pampering, delicate, drizzling, drops of sea gold.
The spell of time has cast that she must wait, she must wait to be free.
She longs to return to her watery kingdom, her home, her keep..
For now sweet human child , quiet now,
Please, let the lady sleep.

Stony mermaid, inspired by and dedicated to Sousanna

She has been lying on the shore
for hundreds of years
Paitiently waiting for every single wave
to caress her
Slowly letting the water, wind and light
change her form

vulnerably dissolving 

in perfect beauty

 

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water color on canvas, 40 x 30 cm oval

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bits and pieces of an average day?

Some pure things
get tainted
when they are spammed all over the place

cut

You chose to end your life a few weeks ago
I got the message today
and it clouds my Now

cut

Shyly yet persistently you joined our family
I now have the honor
to open your cat food dish

cut

bits and pieces

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Gipsie,

10 years old

Jerry,

~ 3-4 years old

Jules,

~ 1 year old???

Who is cheating? Legs UP!

water color, colored pencil and FUN on canvas,

70 x 30 cm

sprouts, inspired by and dedicated to CPE and Abi

This painting was inspired by a book by Clarissa Pinkola Estes and my dear friend Abi.

The book is called The Dancing Grandmothers. To BE Young While Old, Old While Young.

She gives such a powerful and beautiful Tree-analogy in it.

I try to translate a bit of it:

She says, even when a tree gets cut down,

after a while in most cases it will have new sprouts.

In this (daughter)sprouts the tree will live on.

She claims that every woman has a guardian deep within (roots),

which no matter what happens to the woman is available and can be activated.

Abi told me this:

...It was of a tree stump, with an axe stuck in it, and from the end of the axe handle, leaves had begun to sprout… the remembered life-force of the tree had traveled through the head of the axe, and flowed up into the handle…

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I intend to share this picture for free with anybody who gets some strength or whatever out of it. 
So, if you would like to have a high resolution file (printable up to posters 90 x 70 cm) just send me a private message and I will give you a link to download it.
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Detail: 

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water color and colored pencil on paper,

64 x 50 cm

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chop wood - carry water

Annie got enlightened today :o)

Her brother Pete is still a bit confused about it:

T-Shirt and Sticker design

My master :o)

Dear Mommy,
look how skinny I am.
I really NEED the chewing bone 
you hid in the cupboard with the !%$FJJ$§!-turning-knob.

Yours sincerely,
Joshi

One-way cycle

Some channels are meant to be one-way

like blood circuit

or water circuit in rain and rivers

yet in the end the cycle is closed

I touched the beauty within you

now it lingers on in my heart and soul

a rooted junction line

even if it is *one-way* - we are connected

re-cycling

The tears you cry today

have the potential

to nourish the rose in your garden

in another Now.

Every single atom of the body

is ancient,

has gone through many life-cycles.

Imagine the wisdom 

stored in every single cell

of your body.