Wolfgang Schweizer Paintings and more
stuff around my artwork
| Acrylic painting |
mainly Liquitex,Daler-Rowney,Golden |
  I prefer these. The first picture is the expensive variety with high pigment load. For underpaintings and first stages of a painting the "Basics" variety is good enough. The Liquitex colors are just the best in my opinion. The Prussian Blue is a real Prussian Blue Hue (same for Golden acrylics). The Prussian Blue color especially is very critical to buy.The original pigment made from Iron Cyanide (NOT poisoning) is the deepest blue you can think of, but it cannot be used in acrylic colors. Because of this hue mixtures have to be created. The cheaper brands offer worthless mixtures, which don`t even come near the real hue of the original oil color pigment. The colors "turquoise deep" and "Viridian green transparent" from Liquitex are most brilliant-and most expensive. The only cheap color which comes near the Viridian green is from "Reeves". NOTE: I tried Daniel Smith Lapis Lazuli Genuine. To me it looks like it is made from cheap denim lapis lazuli (pale light blue) and has not nearly the color of the original high quality pigment. Here the synthetic Ultramarine is much better.  the Daler-Rowney colors are very good regarding price/quality. Some of the colors are even almost as good as the ones from the more expensive brands like Liquitex and Golden.  these are about the same quality as Liquitex, I guess. |
| For me, the products from Liquitex work the best mostly. They are high quality, but not cheap. Anyway, only with high quality material you can get the result you want. With Soluvar archival varnish I finally found the optimal varnish for my purpose, after I tried for years many different brands. It has UV protective ingredients and can also be used to varnish epoxy resin, which is UV sensitive.  In the past I made the same mistake like many people and used cheap brushes. This is one of the biggest mistakes you can make at all. A cheap brush is worthless, if you want to paint delicate things. Glazings are nearly impossible to do with cheap synthetic brushes, only natural hair works. Best is still Sable. But Cheap hair brushes are even worse than cheap synthetic brushes, because they loose constantly hairs and ruin the painting by doing this. AC Moore has some not too expensive acceptable sable brush assortments. |
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| Liquitex gloss medium and varnish, Soluvar archival varnish The mediums make glazings possible. It is hard (but not completely impossible) to get a good glazing with water alone as a solvent. |
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| Metalsmithing |
impossible to mention all the materials here. mainly I use silver,copper, brass and natural gemstones. |
 my bench |
| electronic compositions |
Ableton Live software with Essential instruments collection www.Ableton.com
M-Audio Axiom 49 MIDI controller keyboard, LPK 25 Akai Keyboard the big keyboard for home
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| digital painting |
GIMP (GNU Image Manipulating Program) under free license one of the top programs for digital imaging besides Photoshop www.GIMP.org Bamboo Pen Tablet with pressure sensitivity. No battery needed. It`s Magic! for real it`s magnetic. Technology Wacom tablets use a patented electromagnetic resonance technology.[12] Since the tablet provides power to the pen through resonant coupling, no battery or cord is required for the pointing device. As a result, there are no batteries inside the pen (or the accompanying puck), which makes them slimmer. Under the tablet's surface (or LCD in the case of the Cintiq) is a printed circuit board with a grid of multiple send/receive coils and a magnetic reflector attached behind the grid array. In send mode, the tablet generates a close-coupled electromagnetic field (also known as a B-field) at a frequency of 531khz. This close-coupled field stimulates oscillation in the pen's coil/capacitor (LC) circuit when brought into range of the B-field. Any excess resonant electromagnetic energy is reflected back to the tablet. In receive mode, the energy of the resonant circuit’s oscillations in the pen is detected by the tablet's grid. This information is analyzed by the computer to determine the pen's position, by interpolation and Fourier analysis of the signal intensity. In addition, the pen communicates other vital information, such as pen tip pressure, side-switch status, tip vs. eraser orientation, and the ID number of the tool (to differentiate between different pens. mice, etc.). For example, applying more or less pressure to the tip of the pen changes the value of the pen's timing circuit capacitor. This signal change can be communicated in an analog or digital method. An analog implementation would modulate the phase angle of the resonant frequency, and a digital method is communicated to a modulator which distributes the information digitally to the tablet. The tablet forwards this and other relevant tool information in packets, up to 200 times per second, to the computer. |
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| Since sumer 2011 I use the program artrage additionally to GIMP. Artrage is a pure painting program, and it imitates real painting in an unbelievable way. The watercolor function is spectacular. I also like especially the metallic color function. The price of the program is at the low end, but it offers everything you need to make digital paintings, and for the 50-80 Dollars it costs you get a complete artstudio with colors, canvasses, brushes and everything else. Combined with GIMP you have unlimited possibilities to create paintings. |
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| various media | For acrylic and epoxy paintings I use various kinds of gel and ink pens. Best for me work the following: 1) white - uniball signo angelic and broad 2) gold - uniball signo gel impact and Pentel Sunburst Metallic Gel (finer) gold glitter: Sakura gelly roll golden star (also very good is the Copper star) Other colors: Energel Liquid Gel ink, Uniball Gel RT, Uniball Signo 207, Sakura gelly Roll moonlight series, Foray Liquid ink pens (Office Depot Brand) there are many good other pens on the market, but these are the ones that work the best for my purpose. I use inks for all kind of artwork. Mainly I use Liquitex products. |
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