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Friday, September 4th, 2009
it has been a while since my last blog post here, i started with ‘blogger’ as the email updates seem nicer and include pictures for my subscribers,
to all my dear subscribers, i’d like to invite you to sign up for new updates from my new blog here
Thanks! Simone

Apples and Art, watercolour 22x22in approx,
nun ist schon einige Zeit ins Land gegangen, seit meinem letzten Blog eintrag, ich habe einen neuen Blog angefangen mit ‘Blogger’, da die email updates besser sind und auch fotos gleich angehaengt werden.
alle, die sich fuer Blog Updates eingetragen haben moechte ich hiermit einladen bei meinem neuen blog vorbeizuschauen. vielen dank! Eure Simone
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Tags: Aquarell, Art, painting, Ritter, Simone, watercolor, watercolour
Thursday, July 16th, 2009
with my pregnancy progressing into the few last weeks, i am feeling bigger by the day, hence my painting energy seems to dwindle a little… however i am still pushing as my upcoming show july29-august 1st, 2009 at the fairmont algonquin is coming fast… so far, i have held up my endeavor to paint every day… here a little update of my finished ones;-)

watercolour, 22x20in, 55x50cm aquarell, painted 'en plein air' ,SOLD

stranded, acrylic on canvas, 24x30, gestranded, acryl auf leinwand, 60x75cm, painted 'en plein air'

lupins and foxglove, w/c, 8x10 approx, Lupinen und Digitalis, aquarell, 20x25cm, 'en plein air', SOLD
Da meine Schwangerschaft sich nun langsam dem Ende naehert (33 Wochen), komme ich mir taeglich noch umfangreicher vor, so verlangsamt sich auch meine Malausdauer etwas… trotzdem male ich taeglich- mein Vorhaben an mich selbst bis ende des monats- denn unsere jaehrliche Show ist schon bald: Fundy Artists- Juli 29- August1, 2009, Fairmont Algonquin Casino. Hier ein kleines update ueber meine neuesten Bilder…
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Tags: Acrylfarben, Acrylic, Aquarell, Art, Fischmarkt, fish market, Lupinen, Lupins, painting, Plein air, Ritter, Simone, St. Andrews, watercolor, watercolour
Monday, July 6th, 2009
this weeks challenge from Karin Jurick’s blog: different strokes from different folks , was a photo from a rower in lake Michigan for us to paint . everyone can participate to send in an interpretation from the photo she posted… now over 100 artists from around the world are taking part!- i painted this last night- today i did a small oil pastel sketch…
Rower in Lake Michigan, watercolour,9×12 approx., Ruderer auf dem Michigan See, aquarell, 22.5 x 30cm

Die dieswoechige Aufgabe from Karin Jurick’s blog: different strokes from different folks, war ein photo von einem Ruderer auf dem Michigan See fuer uns zum nachmalen. Jeder kann mitmachen und die gemalte Interpretation des vorgegebenen Fotos einsenden… inzwischen machen ueber 100 versch. Kuenstler weltweit mit! ich habe das bild gestern gemalt, heute habe ich mit oelkreide gezeichnet…
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Tags: Aquarell, Ritter, Simone, watercolor, watercolour, wave, waves
Friday, July 3rd, 2009
after all the rain we had the last weeks, i thought it might be nice for my children to have a picknick and paint-out on the beach. we went to the boat landing as it is close to home, but quiet and full of interesting treasures for the kids to collect at low tide. and a great time we had… see the results from Sabrina and Simone (Maximilian, 2 had fun scrubbing so much water onto his paper until it was disolved and Mama’s watercolour bush killed- so no post from his side this time;-)
Sabrina’s beach, aquarell

Red Lobster Boat, 5×6in watercolour, 13×15cm, aquarell, 68.-$

Nach all dem Regen der letzten Wochen, dachte ich es waere schoen fuer meine beiden Kinder ein Picknick am Meer zu machen, mit anschliessendem malen. Wir sind zum Bootlandeplatz gegangen, da der nicht so weit weg ist, recht ruhig und voller angespuelter ‘Schaetze’ zum sammeln fuer die Kiddies- hei war das Spass! die Resultierenden Gemaelde sind oben zu sehen, Sabrina’s und Mama’s (Maximilian, 2, hatte Spass viel Wasser aufs Papier zu schuetten und dann mit dem Pinsel so lange zu rubbeln, bis sich alles in Wohlgefallen aufgeloest hat- mein guter Aquarellpinsel uebrigens auch- also kein Gemaelde von seiner Seite Diesmal;-)
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Tags: Aquarell, Art, beach, Plein air, Ritter, Simone, St. Andrews, watercolor, watercolour
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
living here in Canada, the first of july is always a celebration. And even that the weather was not ideal here in the maritimes, there were tons of people in St. Andrews. I like the happy mood of the Canadian Holiday versus the German ‘Tag der Deutschen Einheit’ where you feel reminded of a bitter past.
Yesterday the weather was so gorgeous, i headed out to paint the lupins- before the blooms are gone for anther year…
Lupin breeze: 7×5.5in watercolour, 17.5×14cm aquarell, $68.- ea


Wenn man hier in Kanada lebt, ist der erste Juli immer eine grosse Party- Nationalfeiertag! Und auch wenn dieses Jahr das Wetter nicht ideal war hier am Atlantik, waren trotzdem viele Leute den ganzen tag in St. Andrews. Ich mag das Froehliche an diesem Feiertag im Gegensatz zum ‘Tag der Deutschen Einheit’ an dem man sich immer an die bittere Vergangenheit des Volkes erinnert.
Gestern war das Wetter so wunderbar, da musste ich einfach raus die letzten wilden Lupinen zu malen!
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Tags: Aquarell, Art, floral, Lupinen, Lupins, painting, Plein air, Ritter, Simone, St. Andrews, watercolor, watercolour
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
as the weather just was too beautiful to ‘do housework’ i took my painting chair and headed out to do more Lupins- this time watercolour. Lupina-bonanza; watercolour, 11×7
Da das Wetter einfach viel zu schoen war fuer Hausputz, nahm ich meinen Malstuhl und radelte raus um mehr Lupinen zu malen- in Aquarell diesmal.
Lupina-bonanza: aquarells, 28×19cm



old Fish market Boat, 5×7in approx, 14×19cm
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Sunday, June 7th, 2009
this weeks challenge from the ‘different strokes from different folks’ is painting a veggie medley from one posted photo. Das dieswoechige Projekt von ‘different strokes from different folks’ ist ein Gemuesearrangement zu malen von einem vorgegebenen Foto. Hier meine Interpretation. Ich habe dafuer mein letztes Blatt ‘yupo‘ papier genommen, und hatte viel Spass dabei. 45×60cm.

here’s my take on it. i used my very last sheet of ‘yupo‘ paper, and it was great fun doing it;-) 18×24in
i am handing out invitations to my art show left and right, i am getting nervous already- hopefully i won’t be all by myself at the opening!!!! it seems to be my nightmare, ha,ha. Fuer meine bevorstehende Kunstausstellung haendige ich Einladungen aus an alle Bekannten und Freunde- ich werde allmaehlich nervoes- hoffentlich werde ich nicht ganz allein auf weiter Flur sein bei der Vernissage!!!! Das scheint mir mein grosser Alptraum im moment, haha.
i am still painting at high speed in those last days before the show… it is a good feeling, never the less and i am learning soo much just through the process of organizing it and seeing it take on shape- thank you Lord for it. Ich male immer noch auf Hochtouren in diesen letzten Tagen vor der Show… ist schon ein tolles Gefuehl, und ich lerne soo viel einfach durch den ganzen Ablauf mit Organisation und wie alles Form annimmt- und ich danke Gott dafuer.
my last acrylic, Fish Market again, with the work-in-progress WIP stages… 24×30 in. Mein Neuestes Acryl: Fish Market wieder mal, diesmal mit Bildern wie so ein Bild entsteht. 60×75cm

Basic Bock-in with a tertiary mix of hansa yellow light, Red Rose Deep and Phthalo blue (all Da Vinci) Erstes Einzeichnen der Grundform mit einem Farbmix aus den Primaerfarben gelb, blau, rot (DA Vinci)


Basic establishing of form and Colour (worked from Photo on Computer Screen) Grundform und -farbe sind ethabliert (habe das Foto auf dem Computer Screen als Vorlage)


Next day ‘on location’- to get the finishing touches and catch the ‘mood’-(using Golden Open acrylics- so i don’t battle the drying times) important to go there at the same time when the reference photo was taken- even 2 hours make a big difference in how the shadows fall…oh, yes, a little visitor came by: a ground hog- first he drank from the big water puddle and then went over to the fish market to snack on some dandy lion seeds!
Am naechsten Tag ‘vor Ort’- um die letzten Akzente und die Stimmung einzufangen (hier benutze ich ‘golden open’ acryl, um nicht mit schnell trocknenden Farben zu kaempfen)- ganz wichtig ist dabei genau zur gleichen Tageszeit zu malen wie das VorlagenFoto gemacht wurde- schon 2 Stunden machen einen riesen Unterschied wie die Schatten fallen…Ach ja, ich hatte einen kleinen Besucher: ein Erdhoernchen kam vorbei, trank von der grossen Pfuetze und schlenderte gemuetlich rueber zum Fischmarkt um an den Samenstaenden des Loewenzahns zu schmausen!
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Tags: Acrylfarben, Acrylic, Art, demo, Fischmarkt, fish market, gillmor's coach house gallery, golden open acylics, Plein air, Ritter, seascape, Simone, watercolor, watercolour, yupo
Thursday, May 14th, 2009
todays post is two paintings I did for Karin Jurick’s blog:
different strokes from different folks-DSFDF how we lovingly call it…the challenge she posted was a photo from madison avenue.
after doing a charcoal sketch to lay out the big dark/light pattern shapes I did a watercolour sketch which is the first photo here,
afterwards I took out my soft pastels and that new Sabretooth pastel paper I got in green and went at it. I wanted to focus on the high buildings, hence the portrait format.
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Tags: Art, gillmor's coach house gallery, pastel, Plein air, watercolor
Friday, April 24th, 2009
with today’s wonderful sunshine I got up itching to get painting outside. and what better place to go than the fish market here in St. Andrews!
packing the children up for their daycare day along with my painting supplies I celebrated the sunshine with two little watercolours.
also, I’d like to invite everyone to come to my free watercolour demo: tomorrow, Saturday April 25th, from 2-3.30 at Sunbury Shores Art Center.
here they are, both 8×10’s on 100% cotton paper

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the last one is a view from
pottery cove, St Andrews I painted inside the car on tuesday, by the end it was hailing! it’s a 4×6 on cotton paper.
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Tags: demo, seascape, sunbury shores, watercolour
Friday, April 17th, 2009
What wonderful spring weather god gave us today!! and because it is daycare day for the kids and Markus teaching, i am finishing up paintings- to get ready for the St. George Gallery show beginning in may.
for the show I submit my Spring flower series i have been working on.
now, here is another tulip bouquet on Yupo paper. if you haven’t tried it, it’s really fun and a great way to ‘loosen up’.
as always I used my beloved Da Vinci Artists’ watercolours.

Spring bouquet, watercolour on Yupo, 19×23 approx.
something seems wrong with my blog set up, have a hard time to seperate posts properly and add photos. let’s see if it works….
also, i’d like to invite you all to my free demo afternoon at Sunbury Shores Arts and Nature center in St. Andrews.I’ll be showing how I paint a stilllife in watercolour. Saturday 26th.April 2009 , from 2-3.30pm.
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