Mystical Venice

Venetian delivery service

Shown for the first time in the Kiel exhibition: one of our Venetian dialogues.

This mixed-media watercolor, measuring 56 x 76 cm, is a work you have to let sink in; you have to immerse yourself in the mystique of abstraction. However, this only goes so far that you can still clearly recognize the scene. A different canal, the same Venice, boats, and picturesque houses are captured in the photograph. This dialogue works perfectly, especially thanks to the color scheme, even though the locations are completely different.

St. Peter's Cathedral and Königswiesen

in Schleswig

Created for our exhibition at the Schleswig City Museum - and of course also for those who like the motif and perhaps even want to purchase the mixed media watercolor or the photograph?

The watercolor is a sensation - quite honestly!

Eurogate

Do you love steel?

We love steel structures: ships, bridges... and even loading cranes. These ones, seen here at night in the port of Hamburg, are striking in the depth (or size?) of the entire structure. With the light and colors of the night.

Fishing boats near Maasholm

The old, still-used fishing boats in their even older moorings are a kind of landmark of Maasholm. We've been doing our Maasholm Schlei tour there for years. So it was inevitable that we'd depict one of the typical spots, this time from very different perspectives.

Lightship II

The classic perspective of capturing the lightship with the Elbphilharmonie in the background on watercolor or photographic paper. The positions of the painter and photographer differ slightly. And although the lightship is closer to the edge in the painter's shot, it is still more at the center of the action than in the photograph.

CTA - Container Terminal Altenwerder

A super-modern container terminal, perhaps the most modern in Europe. Definitely the pride of HHLA. And a superb subject for watercolorists and photographers, especially at night.

Cap San Diego and Elbphilharmonie

Two Hamburg landmarks combined in one image. The photograph is classic black and white. The watercolor is a palette of blue and red. The ship moves toward the viewer, the dolphin at the front acts both as a gatekeeper and enhances the depth of the image, while the Elbphilharmonie in the background echoes the colors of the Cap San Diego.

Container stack Hamburg

An unusual motif—both for watercolor and photography. The focus here is on the pronounced symmetry.

An almost sacred effect.

The watercolor also impresses with its wonderful color scheme, while the photo impresses with its sober monochrome and strict lines.

Altenwerder Container Terminal

Cranes and ships in the left part of the photo create an unusual depth, even though their symmetrical counterpart is "missing." The watercolor builds on this pull, but varies it with dazzling yet warm light as the central visual statement.

Köhlbrand Bridge Hamburg

The curved lines of the bridge with its towering pillar create a fantastic tension in the photograph. Building on this, but with a completely different, skillful choice of colors, the watercolor renders the motif in such a way that it can almost be interpreted as a daytime image, yet certainly creates a superb sense of alienation.

Schlei Bridge Lindaunis

Another bridge 😃 The photographer didn't reach into the Photoshop paint pot - but through clever choice of time, weather and light, a dilapidated blue and white spectacle was captured on the chip.

Taking up the dilapidated aspect, the watercolorist transforms the mood into an exciting warm-cold with a changed image section, changes particularly in the left third of the picture and an excellent choice of colors.

Arnis boatyard

Arnis, Germany's smallest town, is located on the Schlei River. It's also home to a boatyard, which Thomas photographed at sunset from the opposite side of the Schlei, from Schwansen. The play of colors in the water is fascinating – Stephanie only chose to capture a portion of it for the photograph, avoiding the sunset to avoid making the watercolor look kitschy.

Oak at Ohrfeldhaff

The photographer, taking into account the very cold and cloudy weather, chose black and white and a perspective that shows how the tree stretches and extends beyond the Baltic Sea.

A place of power.

Reflecting the temperatures, the watercolorist opted for calm winter colors in shades of turquoise, pink, and violet.

Schlei

The depictions of the Schlei with the Habertwedter Noor are very different from each other.

What works in a photograph—namely, the dramatic sky over a gentle landscape—doesn't really work in an expressive watercolor. Therefore, Stephanie decided on two key steps: (1) The perspective was changed, as if she were flying over the landscape, and (2) the frame was expanded to include a bridge leading into the forest, or rather, into the picture here.