My paintings Photo Gallery by Carl Zimmermann at pbase.com

My paintings

This gallery shows some samples of my paintings.
I paint using Acrylics (on paper and on canvas), sometimes using water color or a painting application (mostly Painter 7, but also XaraX and Adobe Illustrator).

One remark: when painting digital, I do not use cloning functions.
Some people regard this as "painting". I regard it as "cloning".
When I paint digital, I just paint using a different medium.

OK, just my 2 cent...:-)

By the way, compared to analog painting, even the best painting application stinks. It's just not the same as the real thing.

After I started photographing for real, I nevertheless often returned to painting, as I still like painting very much.

However, I found that I had never used light to its fullest.

Light is simply wonderful, from the most glaring rays of sunlight to the most subtle colorful reflection filling shadows and giving depth to objects - light is almost everything in a painting (given the composition is there).

Where the composition is the heart of the painting, light is its soul.
Without proper lighting, a painting can never rock!

Enjoy!

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African Vision.jpg	The old baobab	The Phoenix	Life and Death.jpg
Jungle Animals	Jungle Animals	The fire horse	Lonesome twosome
Blue Zeppelin	Chomakaimura	Greek Chapel	Blue white and gold
Himalaya	Scottish Highland	Squall	Winter Lynx
Lalle Yello Spot	Golden Dragon	Sunflower Acryl	red rose
Strelizia	White Rose	The Old Boabab	Fantasia The Ivory Tower
Sonnenlöwe	Serengeti Lion brothers	Impact	floating figure colorful
Lavender field	The Broken Bridge	I am Summer.jpg	SoftColorShapes
psychic space	Praying to science	Encounter	Think Clouds
Winter morning	Winter morning principal composition in Painter	Teddy	The Cloud City
Poppy flower	Superhero tongue in cheek style	Etlea Icon	The Cloud city
Saturnus' Gate	White_Rose.jpg	Face of death	Bipolar.jpg
Etlea and carack with Acquilon-flag

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Mark		26-Nov-2007 16:43
Do You remember somebody from Your family also Carl Zimmermann.I saw peacture signed by this name ( 70-80 years old).Would You kind to respond by this way.

lorin niculae		01-Jan-2006 21:20
I enjoyed very much the short journey among your paintings. The way you have integrated naive themes and techniques along with surreal motives is very ellaborate and appealing. Your use of colors and light/shadows is very good, far from academic clichees, very intuitive and create an amazing oniric universe. BRAVO AND VOTED!

francis schwaller		31-Dec-2005 17:50
Nice Picture ,Beautiful Gallery Regard Francis and Happy http://www.pbase.com/franzschwaller/image/54187814

Guest		29-Dec-2005 20:44
Carl, you have some wonderful paints! love the treatment you use with light and color, very powerful. Congrats! Marisa BTW: if you are interested, I also made a digital gallery of my paints http://www.pbase.com/mlt/digital_art. Feedback more than appreciate :-)

Erich Mangl		28-Dec-2005 11:13
wonderful picture, such a loss that you are not around anymore

Carl Zimmermann		06-Apr-2005 18:29
Hello Susan, thank you for writing. Re: Paintings I hope that I will soon be able to paint again! Re: cat photos You should see the little rascals for real, they are even cuter and even more beautiful in reality:-) Best regards, Carl

Susan		06-Apr-2005 01:25
I love to look at all your pictures. You are truly gifted. I tried to pick one that I liked most but I cannot. Your cat photos are great.!!!! Please get better soon.!!!! Your whole gallery is awesome.

Carl Zimmermann		24-Feb-2005 20:42
Hello Goldcoin, thank you for writing. I did "Winter morning" back in 2001. I remember that I used Painter's water color to create the principal composition, then added one or possibly two layers and used "clone color" to create the hatchings and air brush splashes based on the underlying painting. So is this a "real" painting? - as I understand it, well, partly it was, and partly not. But who cares:-) I have just been thinking this would look nice in Acrylics...maybe my next painting:-) Regards, Carl

GoldCoin		24-Feb-2005 19:21
Good Morning Carl... Spent many hours of pleasure viewing your Galleries. My most favorite here is "Winter Morning!"

Hodero		17-Dec-2004 18:22
Great paintings Carl. "H"

Carl Zimmermann		30-Nov-2004 13:48
Thank you...:-) I checked your paitings, and would like to say they are fabulous. You are not by any chance Herman Serrano? I refer to this image: http://www.pbase.com/strangely/image/34816810 - wasn't it part of the Amiga Videogame "Weird Dreams"?

strangely		30-Nov-2004 12:56
You have some great paintings here, Carl...keep posting!!!

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