The Team Action Sports art in this gallery has been reproduced from hand-painted original watercolor, oil on canvas or acrylic paintings by sports artist Hanne Lore Koehler. Inquire about the availability of original paintings. Buy direct from the artist's studio online or in person. Save on fine art sports prints, sports action posters, framing and original sports paintings of your favorite star athlete. Commission an original sports painting or wall mural.
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Hanne is featured in the November 2009 issue of Country Woman Magazine
"My love for action and fascination with capturing a flash of movement in this motionless art form should be evident in my sports paintings. Only the experience itself can compare with the delight I feel when I have captured an athlete in the excitement of the moment, in anticipation of the next fast ball, goal or break away. Every athlete, professional or amateur, can identify with the adrenaline rush felt in that instant portrayed in each of my action paintings. This work for me is revitalizing, refreshing, uninhibited."
COMPOSING A SPORTS ACTION PAINTING
Step 1:
When composing a sports action painting, I usually work from a number of photos of the same action from different angles and under different lighting conditions. Very seldom, is just one photo perfect enough to be the sole model for the painting. I usually combine my favorite elements from different photos to create the effect that I'm looking for - the expression on the athlete's face from one photo, the muscle action from another, the lighting from a third. My planning stage often takes as long as completing the entire painting. Photoshop sometimes comes in very handy for this process where I can combine photographic elements easily to see if I like the effect. When I am satisfied with this preliminary layout, I go on to the next phase.
Step 2:
Before I begin to paint, I complete a detailed drawing of the subject on my canvas using my preliminary layout as the model as if the athlete were posing in my studio, frozen in time. Facial expressions, muscle action, pose must be right in order to make the action look believable. When painting in watercolor, this is particularly important to my style since I do not use white paint. True to traditional watercolor techniques, the whites in my compositions are created by the white paper background; so, in order to leave the paper white in the right locations, a detailed drawing on the paper canvas is essential.
Step 3:
I begin by painting the detailed subject, concentrating on facial expressions, lighting, muscle action, fluidity of movement to combine these elements so that the composition of the sports action painting looks natural and not contrived.
Step 4:
The backgrounds of my team sports action paintings are impressionistic. I concentrate on creating a balance in the painting - light and dark, warm and cool colors, rough and smooth texture, near and far spaces, high and low chroma, soft and hard edges, realistic focal point and impressionistic background,etc. This Yin and Yang create the tension in the painting, the impression of movement, the excitement."
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