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White is not just White

White is not just White

Not later than having a second of more drawing pets with different texture and quality you'll find out that white is not like white if you have them lying next to eachother. If you're looking for a fitting passeparout for framing it, this becomes a problem. The...

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How to conquer a Workshop

How to conquer a Workshop

After creating a workshop for some eager student you need your equipment ready for the day. Have you got the right case? Have you got a list with the mentioned and fitting equipment?... BE PREPARED!!! (for almost everything) Although students are supposed to bring...

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The big Year 2023

The big Year 2023

Oh yes, I have waited for this change such a long time, but I've never dreamed of a year like this that still feels like: everything in one go and even more. In April my partner and I started to look for a house for us... and found the right one already at the 2nd...

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Greetings from London

Greetings from London

This is a more or less secret gem between the big banks of London and the Tower - remained walls of a church, where you can find a little quiet - in the middle of London. Ok, you hear the cars and the red busses, but the bushes and the greent tendrils show us sitting...

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So tiny…

So tiny…

This image I used for my tutor sessions and Britta just took the small image and painted it on 7x5cm - as small as it was on the worksheet. Great work!

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Journaling in October

Journaling in October

Tonight I had the idea to collect different patterns (best from all over the world!) that are good for drawing. A lot of people just dare to put in colors in books for relaxing, but as a tutor I always like to learn something - and of course I'd like people to learn...

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Stamping ended

Stamping ended

"Stamping ended" is the title of this new work which is now drying in the window of my studio, where people passing by can have a look at it. These two stamps have done there work and will never start it again, because - thank to good old Bob D. - the times they are a...

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Jutta’s Sunset

Jutta’s Sunset

There are some paintings from my students that are really worth showing. Here you see that the country is very flat in Northern Germany, but we've got skies over here, haven't we? Jutta worked with gouache and wanted to make it as abstract as possible. She made it and...

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Social Media for ever?

Social Media for ever?

During the last days I fighted my way through all my Social Media channels, the profils and switching from Mailchimp to Sendinblue for getting new and find a new (DSGVO corresponding) home for existing newsletter readers. However, I'm not sure which plattforms are...

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Studio somewhere else

Studio somewhere else

It's always exciting to built up your tent... erm... easel somewhere else, even if it's just for weeks or just days. So, you get a completely different feeling: It's thrilling for me, especially because the view towards a well-known but not finished painting is...

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Art against Corona

Art against Corona

Life has become so different - for all of us, anyway which country. Finally, we really feel that we're all sitting in one boat and how important it is to rely on family, friends and neighbours. Isn't that a big luck to have them? To talk to them in social distance...

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Ulrike Miesen-Schuermann

Ulrike Miesen-Schuermann

I’m Ulrike Miesen-Schuermann, fine artist, tutor and full of ideas for me and for you. Some times just a word or a picture is needed to take us to old and new worlds, where we have collected and still collect treasures: little gems, places and memories – with a whole lot of love. Let’s get out these apples of the eye and brigthten our world.

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Tip of the Day

For a strange day in corona times: Have a cup of tea, a look out of a window and calm down.

Need an Exercise?

For Writers:

Describe drinking a drink.

For Painters:

Take the most simple item around you, a pencil and paper and sketch it.

Show me, if you like!

A good Saying?

“Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.”

José Ortega y Gassett

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