Review Of The Light Painting Year 2023

In May 2023, the "Open Studios" event took place in Steinhagen. The Steinhagen artists' group CreARTiv, of which I am a member, presented some of our works there. I also performed light painting portraits with the audience on request. Hans Roufflair and Hive account@stepko (on the cover picture) were kind enough to assist me.

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"The visual arts in their diversity also include the examination of their perspectives, forms of design, techniques and materials.
We have set ourselves the challenge of presenting pictorial motifs variably, i.e. to create one and the same motif in different painting or drawing techniques, in different colours or forms. It is interesting to see in direct comparison how the expressiveness of the motif can change, how new tensions are generated by divergent colour exchanges or even how the alienation of a formally realistic pictorial content is enriching in abstraction.
Each coherent "picture unit" of the "Duplicates" allows us to judge the intentions of the nine artists, who have certainly not only realised their own ideas in the respective painting or style directions.
Art and style are characteristically: Acrylic - Black and white - Watercolour - Monochrome - Lithography - Photo - Computer graphics - Modification - Pencil - Pen and ink drawing - Detail - Abstraction - Light painting - Lettering
a palette of variable inspiration."

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On 21 January 2023 I met up with Hive account@lichtkunstfoto, Hive account@stepko and Hans Roufflair at Lausitzflugplatz Finsterwalde - Germany. We were surprised by a snowstorm there, which cancelled our plans. We'll definitely go there again.

On 01.04.2023 then a light painting night together with Hive account@lichtkunstfoto, Hive account@stepko, Hive account@gunnarheilmann, Hans, Anja and Matthias in Schönwalde-Glien - Germany
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On 07.04.2023 Hive account@marlasinger, Geane, Ramona, Marlene, Hive account@lichtkunstfoto, Hive account@stepko, Hive account@gunnarheilmann, Hans, Felix and Erik paid a visit to the Oybin in the Zittauer Gebirge Nature Park - Germany.

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On 08.04.2023 then a Lightpainting Meet Up with Hive account@marlasinger, Ramona, Geane, , Marlene, Hive account@lichtkunstfoto, Hive account@gunnarheilmann, Hive account@stepko, Hans, Erik, Felix, Ebs and me in Görlitz - Germany.
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The following night, on 09.04.2023, we went together with Hive account@lichtkunstfoto to a quarry near Görlitz - Germany.

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On 10.04.2023 I drove together with Hive account@stepko and Hans Roufflair to the Rakotzbrücke in Kromlau - Germany.
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By bike we went to Bad Karlshafen on 05.06.2023 to the Hugenottenturm and further on to the Wasserkuppe on 09.06.2023.

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On 18.08.2023 I met up with Hive account@stepko and Hans Roufflair, Ramona and Geane in Gartow for light painting on a starry night.

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In Sao Paulo I created a light painting at daylight from the hotel roof on 16.10.2023.

From 17.10. - 03.11.2023 I performed a lightpainting at several locations in Santa Catarina - Brazil.

With this abundance of activities, not counting those in my immediate vicinity, it is difficult to name the best location. Due to the variety of locations, I would name Görlitz as this year's favourite. I think that a lot more light painting pictures will be created there.

I wish you a wonderful pre-Christmas season.
See you here next Sunday with another story about light painting. So stay tuned!

For all those who are still looking for a book to put under the Christmas tree for themselves or their loved ones, I have two tips:

• Light Painting - Adventures In The Dark, an illustrated book by Sven Gerard

• Lightpainting - Kreative Fotografie Mit Bewegtem Licht by Sven Gerard