Bettina Luise Koerner

I’ve been crazy busy these last weeks and here is the reason: I’ve been working on a calendar project that I would love to fund through a kickstarter campaign! 

“The “Zodiac Queens” calendar is a collection of 12 illustrations of the Zodiac signs personified as strong beautiful queens. They invite you to connect to the qualities of the Zodiac archetypes in yourself while at the same time bringing a splash of color to your life in 2019!”

If that sounds interesting to you, check out my kickstarter campaign: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/646462412/illustrated-wall-calendar-zodiac-queens

I would also be very grateful if you’d share the project with people who might be interested in it! 

Thank you for your support! <3

Something has shifted in my art making. I’ve never done the “beautiful drawings in sketchbooks” before, always wanted to, but sketchbooks were for trying out stuff and doodling around. Just over a month ago this changed. Limiting myself to the circle format made a huge difference and allowed me to explore ideas and concepts in an easy but more refined way than ever before.

The other change is that I’m experiencing a sense of flow and guidance with these drawings that I always thought art should have but that rarely is part of making complex thought-through paintings and drawings for me. In these little circles however there is space where co-creation happens and it’s the most beautiful thing to experience. 

What have I been up too? Trying my hands on figurative oil painting. Still on the search for the holy grail of art medium.

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylS0nx0GS_M)

Haven’t shared my work here in a long time... but I’m currently participating in a Tarotchallenge over on Instagram and I had to make it into an Artchallenge as well... because combining two of my biggest passions is just the way to go! 

Here are some of my favorite tarotportraits!! I’m using the original Rider-Waite-Smith deck depicitions as references!

I haven’t posted much recently because I’ve been crazy busy with creating my graphicnovel/webcomic *Soraccant*!! It premiers on the 26th of October and I’m currently doing Inktober introducing the world and characters one ink drawing at a time!

If you like a fantasy story drawn by me please join me @soraccant where I will post all updates and news!

Potential (2017) pencil & watercolors

Drawn Seawards (2017) watercolor, polychromos

I’ve always been - drawn seawards. There is nothing like the ocean, the vast sea to connect me with my inner being, my soul that yearns for limitlessness and freedom.

I always feel the drive to move forward, somewhere. Never quite there yet. On the other hand, the current moment is all I have. It’s where my power lies.

Head in the clouds (2017) watercolor, black polychromos

While the unpredictable nature of watercolors really appeals to me, I also enjoy clean lines. Mixing these two elements made this piece really interesting to me. It has a sharpness that I really like, while my eyes  wander from his eyes to the wild cloud background and back.

Clarity (2017), watercolor, black polychromos

Originally I was going with something like “Swanprince” as the title of this illustration, but it quickly moved to a kind of “Page of Swords” vibe and the real theme became clear.

Sometimes I start a painting with a very loose intention behind it and then while painting it turns into something else...