Dear friends of art,
On the following pages I present some images that I have painted or drawn over the years. There are not particularly many, because I rarely find the time to do so. Since they are not for sale and do not leave the house, the Internet seems to me the appropriate way to present them to the public. The images are, of course, subject to my copyright, and I do not publish them for free use, but only for personal edification.
In addition to pencil drawing, I prefer watercolour painting as a technique, although I do not value the well-known flow effect, but rather try to avoid it. So I paint with it approximately as one actually does with oil paints. Although I have also tried oil painting, I quickly had to realise that the expensive paints dry out faster than I can keep up with painting. My way of working, sitting down only now and then to continue the work I have begun, is therefore much better suited to water-soluble paints, and that is why I have remained with watercolour painting so far.
Most of the images can be found under General Images, because they do not fit into either of the two more specific categories. Under Gotica are works that I have painted in the area of Language and Culture of the Goths and which partly serve to illustrate my actual Gotica page. Under Maps are various maps listed, partly of real, partly of fictional circumstances—art and craftsmanship merge here. Not listed on these pages are all the graphics that serve to illustrate my fonts page (e.g., such script images here).
For the future (if I even get around to painting at all), I am planning a series of 'Tolkien-esque' images, i.e., images whose motifs originate from our real world but could just as well be taken from J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional world "Middle-earth" and/or are depicted in a way that is more or less strongly inspired by Tolkien's work.
You can find more detailed information in the descriptions of the individual images. Wishing you much pleasure in viewing them,
Robert Pfeffer