2013 © Thomas Widmer
Oil on paper, 30 x 40 cm
About Me
- wit
- Leipzig / Germany and Winterthur / Switzerland
- We all carry images within us that randomly catch our eye as we experience things by chance. Uncovering these casually noticed images is the subject of my work. I often start with photos taken “by chance”, which I transfer using analog and digital methods into color and contrast compositions – this not only strengthens reality, it also puts it into perspective, expressing both anonymity and subjectivity. The multipurposeness of paper and the dilution of colors also play an important role in my work. For example, using gravure printing with photopolymer plates enhances the statement of each image, making the images irritating and – as consequence of the haptic presence of the subject – more lively and personal, but also very vulnerable
10 May 2013
29 April 2013
23 April 2013
22 April 2013
17 April 2013
nearby underpasses
2013 © Thomas Widmer
Some more workings for my qualifications. Indian ink, 28 x 38 or 38 x 57 cm
15 April 2013
12 April 2013
short notice
Some of my work is on display in Radolfszell / Germany. The exhibition will run till mid September 2013
26 March 2013
lost stone
2013
© Thomas Widmer
Added another color to the litography I recently started, using the "lost stone" technique. Plan to add at least another one in the next couple of weeks
growing work
2013 © Thomas Widmer
Continuing with the work for my qualifications. Meanwhile did more than 50 drawings with indian ink in the formats 28.5 x 38.5, 38.5 x 57, 57 x 76 cm
scraping II
2013 © Thomas Widmer
Another "false mezzotint" in progress, with different states(21 x 16 cm)
scraping I
2013
© Thomas Widmer
Continued with a "false mezzotint", above is showing different states of the same plate (16 x 16 cm)
finger exercises
2013
© Thomas Widmer
"Five minutes" finger exercises. Different formats, all in charcoal
01 March 2013
false mezzotint and lithography
2013
© Thomas Widmer
Currently working on another "false mezzotint" and my first lithography, using a pattern also done in indian ink. Focus is to find out the characteristics of different techniques
(1st lithography [wip], 2nd false mezzotint [wip], 3rd indian ink)
26 February 2013
13 February 2013
06 February 2013
variations
2013
© Thomas Widmer
I am back to my current project for which I will draw a serie of pictures in indian ink. The above shows one subject for which I meanwhile did three different variations (all 38 x 57 cm)
mezzotint
2013
© Thomas Widmer
Mezzotint is an edging technique that works from dark to light, by "polishing" areas of the black plate to get tones
a simple landscape to study the effect of colors
2013
© Thomas Widmer
Color studies based on 3 plates done in aquatint (16 x 16 cm)
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