Blue sketchbook sheet 31

Datum 13.09.25

Richscribble

Blatt 31 aus dem blauen Skizzenbuch, Richscribble-Aquarell, Zülpich 2023

This pale sheet from the blue sketchbook contains some beautiful artifacts. First, I edited the original scan with a white balance adjustment.

The third image shows the original after color matching. From this version, I isolated an orange artifact and processed it further as a giclée print.

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I continued to explore this theme using watercolors to find out what motivated me to choose this particular structure and these colors. With this enormous enlargement, I succeeded in preserving the paper fibers of the sketchbook page, and I am also very satisfied with the sharpness. The contrast provides a 3D experience. The entire structure of the artifact appears as if it had been deliberately constructed. The image could be “sold” as a photo of a Mars rover. With the bright trail from the upper left corner, the print gives an impression of movement.

Artifact interpretation

Artefakt Blatt 31.1 aus dem blauen Skizzenbuch, lichtechtes Aquarell auf 48cm x 36cm großem, 200g/m² schwerem Aquarellbogen, Zülpich 2025

I really like the implementation. I replaced the fibrous background of the original with an interesting, but also more moving texture, and expanded the strictly reduced palette a little. The character of a “beaten stone” has been consistently worked into the image, because that is how I had interpreted this artifact up to now.

After examining it, I realize that the constructive character of the original artifact, with its Mars-like orange appearance and monotonous vegetation of fibers, must have moved me to choose it. Nevertheless, I consider my initial interpretation to be an interesting representation, which you can purchase in my shop malamadita.de. This enables me to produce interesting, creative content.

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