Fruehling im Wald
August 29, 2019
Diana C. Battefeld, Frueling im Wald irgendwo in Deutschland, 2019, 80×100 cm [Oil on Canvas] Walking barefoot. A beetle sting. Pain for days. A remainder … we are trespassing.
Aperture
July 8, 2019
Diana Battefeld, Aperture, 2019, 100 x 100 cm, [Oil on Linen] A hot, late Spring, Sunday afternoon. Working on some long computation, we split the problem in two. Empty, silent building. A window. Pretend that you are a kick-ass video game character on a secret mission and are now trying to make your stealth escape. …
The Afternoon Nap
June 21, 2019
Diana Battefeld, The Nap,2019, 80 x 100 cm, [Oil on Linen]
Music and Health
March 29, 2019
Diana Battefeld, Practice Break After the Snowstorm, 80x100cm, 2019, [Oil on Linen]. Every musician experiences physical discomfort and ailments that are disabling. Sometimes, these instrument-related maladies can leave the musician maimed for life, more often, however, they are a temporary nuisance that prevent the player from performing for many months. In order to avoid injuries …
The Physics of the Violin
March 25, 2019
Diana Battefeld, Diva, (80x60cm), 2018, [Oil on canvas]. In playing the violin, it may be instructive to know what is going physically when the fingers are pressed upon the fingerboard and the bow slides on the string to carry the right kind of sound. From a purely physical point of view, when a string vibrates …
The Breakfast
March 23, 2019
Diana Battefeld, The Breakfast, 50×100 cm, 2018, [Oil on Linen] There is nothing in the world like music. And there is nothing in the world like making music. The act of playing an instrument uses the entire brain, the entire body even. For the slightest tension in your little toe can have an effect on …
Butterfly
February 22, 2019
Diana Battefeld, Butterfly, 2015 [Oil on Canvas]. After an image of NGC 6302, photographed by NASA’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3), ESA, and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team. Aleksander Friedmann did not live to see the impact of his discovery. He died in 1925. The significance of his work was not appreciated until two years …
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Butterfly — Preludio Violin Partita No.3, Johann Sebastian Bach
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Butterfly – The Painting
February 19, 2019In this part of the blog I will explain in detail the decisions I take, the techniques, the colors and type of brushes I use to make the paintings from the very beginning so that if you decide to start painting on your own, you can use this as a guide. Painting astronomical objects in …