untitled (Lakeside)

Uff, thats far to good for me. Nearly unbeliveble the patience one need for an image like this. oh, and it looks so beautyfull, too. I would hang it on my wall! Chapeau!

Thanks , Vincent!
Might sound a bit like a understatement, but it´s true: I´m not patient at all.
That´s maybe the main reason why I´m able to finish (even more complex) paintings. If I want I want it quick.
In this case most of the time took by far the waiting for the varnish to dry.

Du gießt ja auch 'n ganzen Kanister drüber.
Das dauert, bis es trocken is'...

Jochen, a intimate question straight into your studio:
How long you worked on that piece?
Just to get an idea what patience means to you/others.

The procedure in this case took me all in all maybe 2 days.

It is hard to tell, because many steps only take some minutes. And these are spread over a wide range of time, over many days. I work on several pieces paralell. And some works take other (longer) ways than I originally intended.
In this case there was the b/w version which I liked – took me 1 day. But another day it came over me to turn it into green and to bury it under many layers of varnish. That went in many single steps. Each needed more looking than painting.

There are bigger painting on wich I worked for month, but maximum 1 to 2 hours a day. Then I have to turn to other things. The amount of diciplin and patience varies with every work. But I never think about that beforehand and always trust that it will get ahead easily and quickly. Afterwards I often wonder how hard it was and am thankfull not to be able to overlook this before.

At the moment I prefer to work very quickly and sometimes do 3 paintings a day. For example the series of 10 pieces "Das große Gehege" was painted in two days. Just the varnishing took additional time.

I never judge a work by the amount of time I spent. But I have to admit that I´m often asked how long this or that takes. But it is never about how long it takes to make a bruhstroke or write a word or a note or whatever. It is only about what it takes to enable you to do it. No matter if I do it in 1 second of 1 year, in the end it was the same time that I needed to get there – my whole life.

Maybe all the patience that is needed is to stay alive?
What do you think, Vincent?

Indeed Jochen, the most patience is needed just to stay alive!
I m quite shatterde that you needed only 2 days to make that image, I thought that would need at least one month of finest brushstrokes like the old dutch masters. And in forehand another month of sketching, thinking about the light and shadowflow, the use of what color at what place and so on and on. Itsa hard to believe that someone paint that im vorbeigehen, as it seem for me.
For me theres only one conclusion: You are a dammed good painter!
A master, because for a master thats a normal thing while dilletants like me just get big eyes and say OOOOHHHHHH...
You must know that I ever dreamed of being able to do a fine landscape piece but never really tried, because of the patience and of course the technique, knowledge, talent, faith and what else is needed.
Go ahead, paint!

Ok, I´ll try to do my best.
Thank you, Vincent.

Hi Jochen,

This painting is superb. I usually respond to more abstract things, but this work breaks through realism to something very special.

Thank you, Marilyn!
That is my very hope.