Still I'm practising

[LaFemmeDuLac]

Thanks Mark, for such a long and detailed answer. I read it all an will again for special hints. It encourages me a lot! Because I'm feeling: I am on the right way. Only: Not fearing to make mistakes to fail but not hesitating to show here!
An oh no, it's not that I ever was intented to paint like Edvard Munch.
I do not have a special or favourite painter I want to do like him. I take interesting and crucial details from the most.
I want to discover peculiar ideas.
Did you ever watch carefully the famous paint from Tischbein? "Goehte in Italy?
The portrait is so fine. But if you compare it with the legs....
Well one leg which is covered with a blanket is soooo huge, Goethe had to be a giant:-) Visiting here in Weimar some pictures of Tischbein: He was an excellent painter of portraits, faces but not of the body, of proportions of bodies, hands.
The female painter Angelika Kaufmann was a wonderful classical painter, her hands and fingers, her painted bodies are so fine. We have them here pictures here temporarily (if they are not lent to museums somewhere) I always need a long time to watch the details.
In "Schloß Friedenstein" in Gotha there are her pictures to. I mean...On Friedenstein are a lot of the Cranachs. The style is different but the could paint fine hands, but the fingernails are black:-)
If you ever come to visit Germany again: Come to Thuringia, it is full of castles and full of Museums, alone her in Weimar. The next from our home is a small castle of the Duchesse Anna Amalia: Schloß Tiefurt with a small exibition. 200 m just a jump over the church-yard...
It's so interesting to watch galeries, museums.
But I myself love Surrealism, really. But to come to do that in a convincing style I did not yet reach.
I like to paint more or less untidy, but detailed, a little bit rotten stuff, not perfect but correct in terms of anatomy and details. The buildings a little bit run down.
Peculiars things, dead things, broken things.
To come to Munch. if I have a look at his famous picture the "Cry (The Scream?) " I tend to step in a distance from my inner.
Even to "daddel" it by "Happy Colot" (I often use to relaxe for a short time on our iPad) I was reluctant to do it. But did it to be brave an discovered why:
I saw and heard so many poeple and animals cry in agony, tortured by pain, while dying and this also something out of my childhood, when I was a little girl of almost 5.
On my more kitschy mood I love to paint sunset- sun risings, sea-shore, waves. I am not so style-sticked.
But the wheel is to get accustomed to for me. I still miss the ochre-shades. But hesitate them to take them from an offer here in ARV.
A water coloured painting of Schloß Tiefurt from the back-side from a view-point which nobody can really catch because there is a wall. The walls are not quite rectangle in reality I exaggerated all a little bit.
And one of "Fuerte Venture" in a very plain restaurant after a family had left there family-meal-meeting, called: "Gegessen" Tempera.
I made a photo of it but had to change the scene a little bit, make it less detailed when I painted it.
And the dove crushed from a storm on the sea-shore; Ad Astra (Oil)
I lay into the wet sand even my head pressed into the sand, when I made the photo. But do you recognize the lily-pistil in the middle of the feathers?
The sea is the Orion-Horse-Head-Fog from an old postcard which was one of the first photos of the Horse-Head-Fog of the Orion: Ad Astra, the empty eye from the dove looks already into it.
Because I first tried to paint the sea-breakers that was boring and I had the inspiration of this sky-phenomena we are only able to watch as a star gazer (I had once watch it).
Hope this works. Once I will get advanced here I will take them in here and change them for the gallery.
And concerning my eyes: I have on one eye a severe wet "macula degeneration" which is treated to stop at least by injections each 2 month, but causes lost of sight thought but slowly, but colours too. No, it does not hurt and one eye is still ok. But now here on ARV I am not longer depending on ideal-light-conditions.
That is a great advantage.
Kind regarads, your LaFemmeDuLac