Jascha Gerhardt

Digital painting that I painted live at the Natural History Museum in Stuttgart, Germany! Around 2 hours on location and 1 hour for detailing at home.

At the Night of 1000 Drawings Stuttgart the illustrator Mayha Suaysom and me did live drawings inside an "illu booth", which is like a photo booth but you have to wait for around 5 minutes and a drawing comes out! All the money we collected was given to charity.

Red & Violet Flowers, 2023. Digital piece from imagination.

Inspired by the beautiful floral still lives of 17th and 18th century Dutch painter Rachel Ruysch. Since photography was not available to her, Rachel, like other flower painters from the period, gathered an extensive collection of flowers and flower studies. The final artworks were guided by the flowers natural appearance but without a doubt executed from her imagination.

Oftentimes, a Carpe Diem / Memento Mori message is present, for you can see the flowers already fading away, struggling to stay alive for another day before rotting away. They are some of the pieces of art that inspire me the most and have inspired me in painting this piece, as well.

Urban Sketching at Aegidientorplatz in Hannover. The giant building in the middle is the headquarters of German Bank Nord/LB.

Drawing a friend of mine during a portrait drawing session that I organized. Done with a graphite stick in about 15 mins I think.

The whole sketchbook page from the recent posts. Drawn in museums in Stuttgart and Hannover, Germany.

Sketches from Drink and Draw Stuttgart. BIC ballpoint pen plus blending stump on Moleskine paper. What an underrated technique!