Hello my ceph-friends :D

I am painting from time to time and thought I should share my latest painting with you. It shows 5 cuttles and it was done with oil + acrylic paint on a 70 x 100 cm canvas...
I don't have any title for it yet - so suggestions are welcome :)

And here it is
http://katze82.cjb.cc/Pict0146.jpg

TK

Didn't come through here...did you post a jpeg?
greg

right click on the red X, select properties, copy the url to your browser, add a www after the http:// then it will come up.

Nice painting 8) :cuttle:

Well, I did not know one could do that Kevin, thanks!

Brilliant painting. PLEASE try and take a full on view and submit it to the Gallery.

Oh such talent..... :notworth: :notworth: :notworth:

Phil

Niiiiiiiiice. :notworth:

Very nice!!! :notworth:

Carol

Real nice painting!!! :D :cuttle:

Never knew to do that either...thanks for the tip!!
Fantastic painting...love the use of light...magical !!
greg

Thanks, thanks, thanks :notworth: ... happy you liked it

Oohh, this poor thing still doesn't have any name :|

I took some front-view-pictures, but had problems with light reflections. It either was too dark (no colors) or too bright (shiny and no colors) :bugout:. One pic is ok and was submitted to the gallery ... The real painting is much nicer though, so you have to come here to see it :mrgreen:

Cheers,
TK

Hello :D

Attention please! :mrgreen:
I'm proudly presenting my new painting here (hope the imagefile is visible). It's oil on canvas (70 x 100 cm) and shows a cuttle and a poor crab, seahorses, jellyfishes, seastars, a lionfish, a ray and some :goldfish: ...
http://people.freenet.de/kawolfram/PICT0044a.jpg
Suggestions on a title for this one are greatly appreciated :notworth:...

Cheers,
TK

VERY NICE!!! Love the colors.
Keep posting the paintings.
Cheers,
CB

Once again, nice work. :notworth:

Suggestions on a title for this one are greatly appreciated

Uh... "Guess Who's Coming Up Dinner"?

Very great use of light and composition !!! Way to go!!!

:notworth: Very nice!!!!

Carol

Hi :grin:

As promised on the introduction thread last week, I will upload some of the paintings I did during the last year. Apparently I was not able to find the upload-button to the tonmo-gallery however (does anybody know how to upload?... I can't remember how I did it before :razz:), I will share some pics here...

The first (most recent) one is this:

http://people.freenet.de/kawolfram/sepiatraum2.jpg
Oil on canvas
100 x 70 cm
"Traum, verursacht durch den nahenden Abgabetermin, eine Sekunde vor dem Aufwachen"
"Dream caused by the approaching deadline one second before waking up"
K Wolfram 2005-06

This painting was done while writing on the final parts of my master's thesis and shows some things I spend my time (and dreams :) on during the past year:
The genetic variability among cuttlefishes from various areas was investigated and some work was done on the oxygen carrier haemocyanin... In the meantime, cuttlefishes were raised with plenty of food (Crangon) from tiny hatchlings to gorgeous animals with mantle lengths of currently more than 15 cm (Jan 06). Sheepish hermit crabs were hired as cleaner for some of our tanks... Well, that's enough explanation for the moment :grin:

In the end this painting was also used as cover illustration of my master's thesis.

Hope you like it - if you do, pls let me know :mrgreen:

Best regards from Germany,
K :cuttle:

P.S.: By the way, we are still looking for tissue (or/and blood!) samples from cuttlefishes from the Mediterranean Sea. If you can help, pls let me know...

heres one "dances with cuttles"

Hi :grin:

The following one was done in summer 05. Again it's oil on canvas (100 [height] x 70 cm [width]) and again it's a tiny little bit cuttle-related (otherwise I wouldn't post here, right :mrgreen:) ... Hehe ... This one was done for a poster dealing with cuttlefish physiology (for a scientific conference).
The first two pictures show the two cuttlefishes that were painted for this poster: the upper one was meant to emphasize respiratory and circulation system - the lower one was more neurophysiological. Both cuttlefishes are on one canvas (just too difficult to get a clear pic with both). The last picture shows how they were arranged on the final poster ...


http://people.freenet.de/kawolfram/TONMO/OBERER.JPG

http://people.freenet.de/kawolfram/TONMO/UNTERER.JPG

http://people.freenet.de/kawolfram/TONMO/IMFLUR1.JPG

Best regards,
K

And another one :grin:

http://people.freenet.de/kawolfram/TONMO/PICT0326.JPG

Oil & acrylic on canvas (70 x 50 cm)
K Wolfram 2004

:sink:
K

... the last one for today :grin:

http://people.freenet.de/kawolfram/TONMO/PICT0767.JPG
ink and soft pastels on paper
42 x 59 cm
"Cuddle with cuttle"
K Wolfram 2005


:smile:
K

Wow. Absolutely beautiful. As for names, Ive no ideas.

Very nice work...love your colour balances!

Hallo :mrgreen:

Once again, thank you for all those nice comments about my paintings :grin:

Here is one more I would like to share. This time it's not painted on canvas, but on a wall (my family's bathroom, app. 163 x 185 cm). It was painted long time ago (in 1999) and only recently was cuttle-lized :wink:
Yes, I admit the dolphin part was stolen from / inspired by the "miracle of life" painting by C.R. Lassen :grad: Hehe... I liked his stuff when I was 16 :oops:

These first three pictures show the (ceph-free) original painting while it was painted in 1999...
http://people.freenet.de/kawolfram/TONMO/20061.JPG

I always felt this painting wasn't complete :neutral: So here in the upper left corner just below the sea surface is this little brandnew ceph-addition that I was painting during my last visit at home (xmas 2005)

http://people.freenet.de/kawolfram/TONMO/20062.JPG

http://people.freenet.de/kawolfram/TONMO/20064.JPG

Furthermore, on the seafloor there are three new cuttle-eggs and one tiny hatchling (in real size and with w-shaped iris! :mrgreen:)... Hehe
http://people.freenet.de/kawolfram/TONMO/20063.JPG

This last picture was not taken in front-view so it looks a little bit strange...

And after almost seven years I finally call this painting complete :mrgreen: Hehe...

Hope you like it,
Cheers,
K

Thats got to be on of the most awsome murals ive ever seen!

What a cool place to take a bath. How did you make it waterproof???

Again very very cool work. All this stuff has got to go to the gallery.

Thanks :smile:

How did you make it waterproof???

To make it waterproof I used a special bathroom-varnish which is transparent and water resistant. I got it in a do-it-yourself-store...

K

Hallo :grin:

Here's another old one:

http://people.freenet.de/kawolfram/TONMO/PICT0292.JPG

"Mommy" or "Yet another cuttlefish" or ... (no idea :rolleyes:)
oil on canvas
40 x 30 cm
2005

Hope you like it...

K :cuttle:

Oooooh, close, close....

soo beautiful! Thanks for sharing such talent.

These are amazing!! So do you paint other cephalopods or are you primarily interested in Cuttles? Again, fantastic work... I've done a couple for course poster presentations but they're not great, and absolutely awful compared to your pieces! All I can really say is WOW!
How they look to me are a sort of very realistic, but also very dynamic making them look almost like fantasy creatures, or not of this world, yet still grounded in our reality! Very dramatic; like a dream! Wish I could afford to buy one of them!:cry:

Graeme

:grin: Hehe... very nice to receive such a positive response ... and very encouraging... I immediately feel attempted to turn those white virgin canvas standing next to me in something more colorful :wink:


SeaStarLiss, thank you and :welcome: to TONMO! Nice to see your second post is a response to my paintings. I feel honored...




Graeme, thanks! I was working with/on Sepia during the last three years of my study and I admit I fell in love with this gorgeous creature. Sepia is so amazing in terms of behaviour and physiology and - most important to me - they are so beautiful, I think. So yes, I'm primarily interested in cuttlefish at the moment, but this may be due to the fact that I don't really have any lab experience with other cephalopods. There are some other cephs that are pretty interesting (e.g. Argonauta :argonaut: , Taningia , Vampyroteuthis :vampyro: ), but as I don't know them "in person" (i.e. except from books and movies etc.) I always ended up with cuttles on my canvas so far... I would appreciate any suggestions for other cephs in my paintings, so if you were thinking of a certain species, please feel free to share your idea...

In general, my paintings are not for sale and all of them (minus one exception [post #15]) are kept by either me or my family, but of course I won't rule out to sell some someday, if somebody is really interested (i.e. depending on how much people are willing to pay :grin:). Which one are you interested in?

What kind of course poster presentation painting have you done? Cuttlefishes, other cephalopods? I am curious...

Cheers,
K :sink:

Tiger you should do a cuttlefish mural using flipflop paints so the cuttle changes color depending on where you stand

Tiger you should do a cuttlefish mural using flipflop paints so the cuttle changes color depending on where you stand

Hehe, yeah. For example with a male in the center courting a female to his left (or right). And when the viewer is approaching the female (and changes his/her position) the male starts to display an intense zebra pattern :wink: Pretty cool idea actually...

Here is another one from last year...

http://people.freenet.de/kawolfram/TONMO/PICT0274.JPG
ink and soft pastels on paper
42 x 59 cm
"Having a rest"
K Wolfram 2005

Any kids viewing this: Please don't do that with your real cuttlefish! :mrgreen:

Cheers,
K :coffee:

:grin: Hehe... very nice to receive such a positive response ... and very encouraging... I immediately feel attempted to turn those white virgin canvas standing next to me in something more colorful :wink:


SeaStarLiss, thank you and :welcome: to TONMO! Nice to see your second post is a response to my paintings. I feel honored...




Graeme, thanks! I was working with/on Sepia during the last three years of my study and I admit I fell in love with this gorgeous creature. Sepia is so amazing in terms of behaviour and physiology and - most important to me - they are so beautiful, I think. So yes, I'm primarily interested in cuttlefish at the moment, but this may be due to the fact that I don't really have any lab experience with other cephalopods. There are some other cephs that are pretty interesting (e.g. Argonauta :argonaut: , Taningia , Vampyroteuthis :vampyro: ), but as I don't know them "in person" (i.e. except from books and movies etc.) I always ended up with cuttles on my canvas so far... I would appreciate any suggestions for other cephs in my paintings, so if you were thinking of a certain species, please feel free to share your idea...

In general, my paintings are not for sale and all of them (minus one exception [post #15]) are kept by either me or my family, but of course I won't rule out to sell some someday, if somebody is really interested (i.e. depending on how much people are willing to pay :grin:). Which one are you interested in?

What kind of course poster presentation painting have you done? Cuttlefishes, other cephalopods? I am curious...

Cheers,
K :sink:

It was an ocotpus and a squid, just typical representatives of the species really. THey were just done in watercolour, so they were nothing special... I could take a photo of them if you really want, but they're not great! Especially compared to your work, as I said. :grin:
I know what you mean about sepia though; they're amazing animals! It's a shame but in my experience they seem to be overlooked, everyone wants to know about octopus or squid.

Graeme

Hi

here comes my current "masterpiece" :grin: ... it shows some cuttlefishes in :tentacle:, a lady cuttlefish laying eggs in the foreground etc. ... and, most important, it's not finished yet, so if you want to see your great idea in my painting, you still have time to tell me your suggestion :wink: hehe


http://people.freenet.de/kawolfram/TONMO/rendevouz1.jpg
"Rendevouz" (unfinished)
oil on canvas
100 x 70 cm
K. Wolfram 2006


I will update this picture and upload better pics (in front view and with better light conditions) when it's finished...

Any comments? :smile:
Cheers,
K

All I can say is WOW! Have you considered having posters made from them? I think CAfe Press can do that. Anybody know for sure?
:notworth:

I'm getting a broken image graphic

yet another cool image. nice work

very nice, I especially like the way you handled the water transition !

greg

...thanks guys!

Here is a current picture... still time for you to contribute to this painting by some nice suggestions :wink:

http://people.freenet.de/kawolfram/TONMO/PICT0014small.jpg
"Rendevouz" (still unfinished)
oil on canvas
100 x 70 cm
K. Wolfram 2006

Comments anyone? :mrgreen:

Best regards,
K

great painting. its nice to see what goes into a piece of art, as i guess I used to think a painting just sprang full blown from the artist's imagination. I still want to see the flip flop painting tho

Hallo everybody :grin:

Some progress on my latest masterpiece...

left: canvas in current stage
right: previous stage of the painting as used for a poster [for a scientific meeting (SEB)]

http://people.freenet.de/kawolfram/TONMO/TONMOSEB2006.jpg

"Rendevouz" (still unfinished)
oil on canvas
100 x 70 cm
K. Wolfram 2006


bigGdelta, I haven't forgot about your flipflop idea... hehe, still think it would be a cool thing to do... :notworth:


Comments anyone? :wink:

Best regards from rainnnny Germany,
K

Very beautiful!! I would like to hang the squid-dalí painter in my blog if if doesn't matter to you.

www.mondopulpo.blogspot.com

very nice! :grin:

Hi :grin:

Thanks a lot for the nice comments about my paintings.

Very beautiful!! I would like to hang the squid-dalí painter in my blog if if doesn't matter to you.
www.mondopulpo.blogspot.com

Hehe, please don't call my cuttlefish "squid" - cuttles are much prettier, aren't they? :mrgreen:

Thanks for asking! Well, I gave the original painting away to a friend, but I think it's fine with the new owner, if I digitally spread it around the world :wink: ... I've had a quick look at your blog (nice!) - yes, I think my painting would fit well, you can post it there. I would appreciated if you write "painted by K. Wolfram" or something like that. Do you need a higher resolution image or do you want to take the TONMO-one?...
If you post my painting on your site, I would like to add a link from my artwork-website (I am currently rebuilding a flash version at http://katze.cabspace.com/KWolframPortfolio.html ... takes some time to load) to your blog and hope that is ok for you. Is it?


I also have a few new paintings to share:

First off, the painting from the first post of this thread which cannot be displayed anymore (the entire server got lost)

http://people.freenet.de/kawolfram/TONMO/kwolfram1.jpg

it was oil and acrylic on canvas (100 x 70 cm)


Then a recent one from early 2006

a close-up picture:
http://people.freenet.de/kawolfram/TONMO/kwolfram3.jpg

another close-up picture:
http://people.freenet.de/kawolfram/TONMO/kwolfram4.jpg

from a greater distance:
http://people.freenet.de/kawolfram/TONMO/kwolfram5.jpg

and finally, the entire painting:
http://people.freenet.de/kawolfram/TONMO/kwolfram6.jpg
K. Wolfram, 2005 - 2006
oil on canvas (100 x 70 cm)


Hehe, and I've painted in oil on cuttlebone (which is a bit tricky, actually)... Don't know if anybody is interested in seeing this, so I will only post one:

http://people.freenet.de/kawolfram/TONMO/kwolfram2.jpg


Regards,
K :sink:

I just got to looking through this thread... nice paintings! I really like the one in post #18... and I know everyone's said it already but...

PERFECT USE OF LIGHT!!! I :tentacle: them all.

Hi :grin:

I just got to looking through this thread... nice paintings! I really like the one in post #18... and I know everyone's said it already but...

PERFECT USE OF LIGHT!!! I :tentacle: them all.

Hehe. No, no - don't hesitate! :wink: ... it's always nice to hear that people like my paintings. And people who appreciate cephalopods / understand my paintings are not that common over here, so thanks for the nice comment! :grin:

Best wishes,
K :sink:

Yeah, this is a great thread. Thanks for sharing T82.

looking forward to seeing more. Your paintings are great.

Hello TONMOers

looking forward to seeing more. Your paintings are great.

Sorry for keeping you waiting :wink:

I am currently working on a painting I started in last summer... I wasn't very happy with it and left it to dry among some others from the "unfinished"-family and then almost forgot it for many months (a previous stage is on my website).
A couple of days ago I re-discovered it and realised that it's not as bad as I thought it was... so I continued to paint and after plenty of Phthalo Blue I am suddenly very happy with its development now...
Right now I'm allowing the canvas to dry a bit, so it's a good time to take some pics and share them with you. It's not yet finished and I am thinking of further emphasising the reflection of light on the skin and of adding some bubbles plus perhaps some fish shaped shadows in the background...

http://people.freenet.de/kawolfram/TONMO/kwolfram8.jpg

It's oil on canvas (100 x 80 cm)

I haven't found a final title for this painting yet. I am thinking of "Crangon's hell", "No, they don't bite - they just wanna play.", "Wrong time, wrong place" or something similar. What do you think? Any suggestion?

Gruß,
K :sink:

P.S.: On my screen the picture looks MUCH more pale than the original painting (very colorful! :rainbow: )... I start to dislike my digicam :hmm:

(just uploaded a current picture and replaced the image above :coffee:)

:grin: I am back...

I've just uploaded a new layout of my portfolio and thought I should also exhibit some of the ceph-related works here...
The following images show paintings done on cuttlebones. I have collected them whenever an animal died and thought they are too precious to just lay in a box on the top of my bookshelf... So here are some of them:



http://www.kawolfram.de/tonmo/2006_KWolfram_Mr_H_Crab_and_Mrs_C_Fish.J PG
S. officinalis and K. Wolfram
"Mr. H. Crab and Mrs. C. Fish"
2006
oil on cuttlebone
length 10 cm, width 3.5 cm

http://www.kawolfram.de/tonmo/om_2006_KWolfram_Vanitas_with_cuttlebone _and_beak.jpg
S. officinalis and K. Wolfram
"Vanitas with cuttlebone and beak" (the beaks are laying below the books and the feather ... difficult to spot in this picture)
2006
oil on cuttlebone
length 13 cm, width 6 cm
based on "Vanitas" by Claesz

http://www.kawolfram.de/tonmo/om_2006_KWolfram_Sick_Baccuttlehus.jpght tp://www.kawolfram.de/tonmo/om_2006_KWolfram_The_cephalopodog.jpg
S. officinalis and K. Wolfram
"Sick Baccuttlehus" (left, is holding eggs in its hand, not grapes :wink:), "The Cephalopodog" (right)
2006
oil on cuttlebone
length 10 cm & width 4 cm (left), length 12 cm & width 5.5 cm (right)
based on "Sick Bacchus" by Caravaggio (left) and on "The Dog" by Goya (right)



Comments? 8-)

Cheers,
TK

Geil!! 8-) I want one...

@Tintenfisch
Which one and what to I get for it? :grin:


Here are some more of my smaller cuttlebones:


http://www.kawolfram.de/tonmo/2006_KWolfram_Milchkaffee.JPG
S. officinalis and K. Wolfram
"Milchkaffee"
2006
oil on cuttlebone
length 9 cm, width 3.5 cm


http://www.kawolfram.de/tonmo/2006_KWolfram_Death_of_Maratintenfisch.J PG
S. officinalis and K. Wolfram
"Maratintenfisch Assassinated"
2006
oil on cuttlebone
length 8 cm, width 3 cm
based on "Death of Marat"/"Marat Assassinated" by David



:wink: , TK

WOW!!! Pure genius! The fact that these are painted on cuttlebone is intense enough, but the fact that you did a cuttly portrait of Bacchus (a personal fave, for obvious reasons) and then did David's "Death of Marat" - Holy Toledo!!! What would be a competitive price for either? These are truly - ridiculously - unique works of art. I'm poor, I don't care. This is art that needs to be championed. I've really liked your works in the past, but this is sheer genius. Absolutely amazing. When you've completed a couple more, you need to contact Juxtaposed magazine. Seriously.

I mean, seriously.

Hey, hey, hey, thank you Erich. I wasn't prepared for such a nice feedback :grin: *smile* Really, thanks for the encouraging words.
I have a few more Cuttlebonepaintings on my Portfolio in the "Cuttlebone Gallery", e.g. "Rokeby Venus" by Velasquez, "Straw Hat" by Rubens, "Swans reflecting Elephants" by Dalí (although this one looks really bad through my digi-cam) and some more... upcoming portfolio-additions are the "Saturn" by Rubens and the "Saturn" by Goya ...

I was actually just kidding in my reply to Tintenfisch - these cuttlebones come from animals I raised during the past year (while I was graduating), so I've seen them hatching, growing and dying... They have little numbers on the ventral sides and some of them have cute little bitemarks (from evil tankmates :sagrin:). I don't think I would be comfortable giving them away at any price at the moment...
However, if people really like it, I could try to find somebody who has access to wild cuttlebones (e.g. collected on a beach) and then start a sell-able collection :mrgreen:

Juxtapose magazine? This is the second time within the last 48 hours somebody is suggesting me to have a look at this magazine :shock: I have never heard of it before, but I'm starting to get extremly curious now and will have a look at it... Is it a printed magazine or a kind of website?