There were so many things, I never had heard about. I bought more books, tried more different papers and my paint box was growing without end.
In June 2003 I began to think seriously about painting and I started to paint every day - I spent all my free time on it beside my family. I was looking at it like a job and with so much practice the first good results were seen soon. I wanted to take my work to a professional level.
I also was curious about other mediums and I tried out at the watermixable oils. After painting with them for a while I wanted to try out the regular oils. It was a great challenge to paint with oils - so different to my watercolors. But I like Challenges. It needed some time to find my technique with them, but now I am enjoying them.
One of my special favorite subjects are Roses and figurative work. I paint roses and also other flowers in oil and watercolor. Beside Pansies, Rhododendron, Iris, Daffodils, Peonies, Daisies and Tulips, there are in my gallery a lot of rose paintings like Heidi Klum Rose, Sangerhauser Jubiläumsrose, Rose “Mein schöner Garten”, Rose Golden Celebration from David Austin, Rose Innocencia, Rose New Dawn, Rose Clair Renaissance, Rose Queen Mother, Rose Bonita Renaissance and more.
My goal is to paint in romantic realism. I am also doing figure work, portraits, still lifes and in 2005 I have started a new series of colourful Horse paintings in oil. I also have started in 2006 with doing postcard paintings. These paintings are in the size 4"x6".
I am using only highquality watercolor and oil paints. My watercolors are painted on 140 Lb hotpressed watercolor paper (mostly Arches or Lanaquarelle) and I am using colours mostly from Schmincke, although there are tubes from Winsor & Newton or Daniel Smith in my box.
Oil paintings are done on stretched canvas or hardboard panels. I am using colours from Rembrandt, M.Gamblin, Old Holland and/or Winsor & Newton. For medium I am only using walnut oil or walnut alkyd medium (both are from M. Graham).
I have a great
passion for nature and her beauty and try to capture this in my
paintings. The sunshine, the shadows, the light and the
glittering of a raindrop I find most captivating.
I love it when people tell me that when they view my paintings
they can smell the flowers, feel the velvet of the rose-petals,
and have the feeling of standing in a garden.
I live together with my family in the south-west of Germany in a small village called Ahrbrück on the Ahr. The Ahr-Valley is part of the Eifel-mountain which is a very beautiful region indeed. It should be mentioned in this context that the world-famous Nürburgring, where the European Grand Prix d'Automobiles and other international motorsport-events take place, is not far from here."
Update:
Recently I have started with painting on cold-pressed paper and
also on Textured Claybord (Aquabord) from
Ampersand. I like the
Textures. Read more about my journey on my
blog.
Rhododendron Rhapsody, watercolor, painted in 2004
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2008 Doris Joa Artstudio
About Doris Joa
"Creativity was always a part of my private and professional life, but I found the love of painting in 2002.
I always loved to create brochures, flyers, posters and many more things at my work, also I loved to work in our house, to decorate, to find our personality style, to paint the walls and so on. When my kids were born and I stayed at home, I was missing to do the creative things, which I did at my work. One day in 2002 I went through a store and saw a book about watercolor painting. "That is what I want to learn" I told my husband and bought this book.
