04 Feb 07 by Hanjo Schmidt
I would love to paint all days but ... sometimes I'm occupied with other things that are necessary as well.

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On January 21 I had an Open Studio to promote the Trapani Project with showing my entries. Paintings and studio logs as well. The show started at 10.00 a.m and I still felt pretty much tired ... so I posed as a guardian in a museum.

Beyond Painting
Beyond Painting

From the beginning people were queueing up for to have a look into the studio logbooks. I hadn’t expectet them to be such an attraction.

Beyond Painting
Beyond Painting

Well, after a while my studio was packed with people I’d never seen before. Obviously people who were invited by people that were invited.

Beyond Painting
Beyond Painting

Around a huge Italian (!!!) bread and prosecco etc. people discussed a lot. In the center you see Sebastian, my Woyzeck model.

Beyond Painting
Beyond Painting

Actually I like Open Studio. It’s such a good atmosphere in the room I’m working in alone all the time. And meanwhile I like to have the walls painted yellow.

Beyond Painting
Beyond Painting

Oops, so much people. One can hardly see the paintings. Here my wife Brigitte talks to Sebastian.

Beyond Painting
Beyond Painting

It’s clear that on this day I had to explain the Trapani idea again and again. But that did not hinder the man I am talking to spontaneously buying Brueghel’s Method. And should I really have said no? So this painting unfortunately will not have the chance to ever see Trapani.