Sonntagsbilder (Sunday Paintings)

both 60 x 60 cm / oil on canvas

Whilst talking to Jessica in a tutorial, I mentioned I would really admire people that finish a painting every day. I meant one in particular, Edward Gordon, who sells a painting every day on his blog. Jessica recommended me to give my work also some kind of rule, or maybe regularity, so I started to search for something to paint every sunday, and paint it on the following week (not being consequent enough (and able) to finish a painting every day. I liked it, as long as I found the object on my daily way to somewhere (shopping, visits etc.) but in the third week, I did not go out of the flat at all, so I had to go out especially for searching something that I could use as a template. This felt very artificial to me, so I thought this would never be a long term project. I went home without anything which was the end of the series.

But now I see the links to to my first portraits I did (the black and white big ones) as they also were randomly found objects - in this case people - which I painted afterwards. I like to paint things, that are confusing people with the question: Why is he painting this, does it have a relation to him? Are these objects or people really worth being painted by someone - as it needs time and energy to do so??

I like playing with expectations of the viewer, what painting should depict and be. Painting is a good way to do so, as people know, that it needs time (better as for example photography), and the historic backround painting has.