While we were on our short vacation I did not take painting materials with me as the conditions in a vacation home are not great for painting. So the reference picture I made of the first one of the Ahlhorner Kellersteine was used for a graphite drawing while I was on vacation. There are two dolmens at this site, the other one will probably be painted later, there are several reference pictures.
Now I am back home, I can use my studio again so I took advantage of a free afternoon to make a watercolour painting using both the picture and the drawing as my references.
This scene needed a bit of negative painting with all those birch trees, both behind and in front of the dolmen. I decided to suggest the branches, foliage and some of the trees behind the dolmen instead of trying to paint all of them. A graphite drawing is very different from a watercolour painting and these suggestions give better, more painterly results than trying to include every little detail of the forest surrounding the dolmens.
The result is what I hoped it would be so I am confident that I can draw or paint some of the dolmens we visited during our short vacation in the North of Germany.
The information about the materials I have used, the size of this watercolour painting and its availability can all be found in my Tumblr blog.
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