Laura Wächter

Traumtransmission

2012-02-09T16:37:00.003+01:00

Animated short music video
by Laura Wächter

Song: Felix Kubin & Pia Burnette

In the maelstrom of feelings of the modern world it is

difficult to discern things clearly. Everything becomes

a bit confusing, and too much stimuli are accumulated

in a huge and shapeless mass from which emerge some

big existential questions. This music video uses those

feelings through a self-enclosed character, who wanders

through life with an uncertain course, trying to digest

her emotions and abandoned in some way to the ruthless

stream of life.

Halbmenschtier

2012-02-02T11:37:00.004+01:00

"When humans behave like animals

they're called beasts.

But what happens when noble and pacific animals

are driven by the artificial social behaviour

and confusing human feelings?"

Thanks to Pilar Soto for her help during the project.

Interviewed by DAME INK

2012-01-21T17:30:00.001+01:00

INTERVIEW

DI: Your imagination is quite incredible, it’s very versatile, I think of Tim Burton, Salvador Dali and Mad Max to name a few unorthodox characters. Your illustrations are deep and mystical yet playful and spiritual and I even sense a bit of sensitivity. Define to us your character.

LW: Thank you for the kind words. My character? Analytical, introspective, curious, calm, and extremely logical and passionate at the same time.

DI: Your later works seem to be more innocent, yet I don’t doubt that they don’t have some intense story behind them. The fine artist still appears but how would you say your style has evolved or changed since when you began?

LW: I don’t know if innocent is the right word. I think they’re just evolving depending on the time I’m passing through and they’re becoming more mature, symbolical and not so obvious as they were at the beginning.

DI: You use both methods of painting and using photoshop, which do you prefer and how do you feel the digital generation we live in fluctuates with the original pen to paper?

LW: If you had asked me at the beginning of my career I probably had told you that I prefer the digital technique, but now I can’t choose. I’ve tried a lot of different techniques and I think each one has its own charm. I started with the digital one, so I have a special affection to it, like the affection you keep to the animated cartoons you used to see when you were a kid.

DI: Describe to us a day in the life of Laura Wächter when she was about 8 years old. (Oh and please explain exactly how we pronounce your surname.)

LW: I used to live with my mother in a pretty small town in the south of Spain. Our home was just next to the old abandoned school, in the same building, so it had a lot of doors and corridors that I am damn afraid of. My favourite hobbies were staying a lot of hours at my bedroom recording myself into a cassette and then listening to it a hundred times, going out and trying to touch slightly stray cats, playing the old LucasArts’s graphic adventure games and collecting insects with my cousin that were already drowned in her pool.The best way to know how to pronounce my surname is to write it on google translator, choose german and click play!

DI: There is always a debate between fine artists and illustrators; do you think there is a fine line that exists between the two and personally which do you think is more difficult, the skill of a fine art piece or the imagination of the illustrator?

LW: Good question...I already find that debate a little bit superficial. I can see many illustrators who are artists, and many “artists” who just talk about other’s ideas or just abstract concepts that they don’t care about because they can’t use their technique to get their own feelings and thoughts out. I don’t care about the technique, I think it’s something much more complex than that, it’s about throwing yourself into a blank canvas. Someone could tell you “Hey, you are an illustrator when you’re painting someone’s others stories”, but it’s just circumstantial. Goya and most of the old remarkable artists used to paint orders too, but it doesn’t mean that they didn’t add their own feelings to them and that they didn’t their own personal works. “Painter”, “sculptor”, “engraver”, “illustrator”... are just superficial labels very useful in society and speech, but not enough at all to define a creative person and it’s whole work.

DI: Have you ever done any charity work, if so with whom or if not would you like to get involved?

LW: I’ve done some unpaid jobs for friends and special occasions, and I like to get involved if It worth it.

DI: Is your home surrounded by your own art or collective pieces by others?

LW: Mostly surrounded by my work, but just because I don’t have another place to store my paintings and sculptures. The only piece of art I have at my home is an original drawing made by Dariusz Skitek. Unfortunately I can’t usually afford that, and sometimes even can’t afford buying some material to work, so I’m lucky at least I have that drawing! Owning a piece of art it’s like owning a piece of the person who made it, and it’s such a big thing!

DI: Do you think the female artist struggles in the art world, it seems the men dominate in most movements or is this just how people portray it and have their facts wrong?

LW: I think everyone has to struggle in the art world to achieve to make art for a living. It’s so hard to get inside that bubble, specially if you paint for yourself and you don’t have good social talents to climb and make useful contacts. I think it's about being in the right moment in the right place, not about being man or woman. Call it luck if you want.

DI: Growing up in Spain, has this influenced you greatly and does it reflect in your artwork or did foreign artists from other parts of the world, and would you say the art culture in Spain is credible?

LW: I think nowadays it doesn’t matter where you are from, if you have a computer with internet connection. If you're curious you can find almost everything online. And, of course, you can find lots of artworks made by almost unknown painters from other countries. The place you live in can make a difference and make it special in your daily life and the personal experiences you have (and that changes the topic of your artworks and why you need to make them), but not necessarily your artistic or visual influence.

DI: I always end with the same question, all fans would love to know something about their fellow favourite artists, share something with us that are hidden within yourself, spill a little secret for us please.

LW: The first memory I have is that I accidentally killed my bird when I was aged two.

KNOW MORE ABOUT

"Mañana de domingo"

2011-12-13T18:31:00.001+01:00

"Mañana de domingo"

2011

Digital painting (Photoshop & Wacom Bamboo)

"Primera y última parada"

2011-11-28T19:37:00.001+01:00

"Primera y última parada"

2011

Digital painting

"Beautiful people!"

2011-11-25T21:14:00.000+01:00

Beautiful people!
2011
Full of good and useful feelings.

Pencil sketch and a little touch of Photoshop.

Coloured animation test for "Traumtransmission"

2011-11-22T06:33:00.006+01:00

"Once you're born"

2011-11-05T21:32:00.003+01:00

"Once you're born"

2011

Pencils and digital colour

Click to watch the making of in HD!

Once you're born (sketch)

2011-11-05T04:11:00.002+01:00

Pencil on sketchbook.

Doppelgänger

2011-10-11T21:19:00.004+02:00

Boceto digital rápido.

Quick digital sketch.

"Tan alto como pueda"

2011-09-19T16:12:00.003+02:00

“Tan alto como pueda”

2011

Resina de poliéster y pintura

acrílica.

75,5 x16 Ø cm

Nueve días sin reloj

2011-08-29T05:23:00.003+02:00

"Nueve días sin reloj"

2011

Pintura digital (Photoshop & Wacom)

Galateo

2011-08-09T22:58:00.002+02:00

"Galateo", 2011.

Arcilla cocida y pintura acrílica.

Fried clay & acrylic painting.

"Galateo" (2011)

2011-06-06T14:55:00.000+02:00

Title: "Galateo"
Date: June 2011
Techinque: Clay

Balancing through the leaves - Public sculpture instalation project

2011-05-19T14:36:00.001+02:00

Balancing through the leaves - Public sculpture instalation project

Face modeling test in clay

2011-04-07T22:43:00.001+02:00

Napoleón devorado por abejas merovingias

2011-04-07T07:11:00.002+02:00

Abejas merovingias originales (fuente de inspiración):

Fotografía extraída de internet.

"Noticias"

2011-03-30T14:46:00.000+02:00

"Noticias"

Home-made encaustic, 100x81 cm.

Quick figure sketches (5 minutes)

2011-03-26T15:42:00.004+01:00

Pruebas con encáustica

2011-03-03T00:28:00.005+01:00

Just testing some new techniques.

Asuntos de nunca acabar

2011-02-16T10:49:00.010+01:00

Cosas que se quedaron a medias y abandonadas en algún rincón.

Ciclo de autoconocimiento

A project never executed about the cicle in cylindrical paintings.

Laura Wächter.

Inmersión

Escondite

Boceto

Miss Keaton

Ver o no ver

2011-02-10T02:37:00.001+01:00

Estudio antómico de "La fuente" de Ingres

2011-01-13T14:28:00.001+01:00

Acuarelas varias II

2010-12-31T00:11:00.006+01:00

Acuarelas varias

2010-12-24T09:59:00.000+01:00

Bocetos tontos a lápiz y a tinta directa

2010-12-24T09:50:00.009+01:00

Domesticated but still conscious

2010-12-15T01:11:00.002+01:00

Social attitude

2010-12-08T15:37:00.004+01:00

Detalles:

Pencil & Watercolours

Exposed

2010-12-07T22:25:00.002+01:00

Pencil & Watercolours

Las siamesas soberbias

2010-12-04T14:15:00.005+01:00

Pencil & Watercolours

News

2010-12-01T21:25:00.004+01:00

There are still blossoms out there

2010-11-22T19:45:00.001+01:00

Estudios de juventud

2010-11-22T00:32:00.003+01:00

Portada para el nº 89 de la revista de Estudios de juventud del Ministerio de Igualdad sobre las discrimaciones diversas en personas jóvenes, publicada en junio del 2010.

Pointed snout horses

2010-11-22T00:29:00.006+01:00

Un boceto rápido a color inspirado en un sueño de hace muchos años.

Ilustración de cartel para la XII Semana de Cine Fantastico de la Costa del Sol

2010-10-25T19:26:00.004+02:00

Ilustración para el cartel de la XII Semana de Cine Fantastico de la Costa del Sol, que tendrá lugar del 12 al 17 de septiembre del 2011. El cartel se presentará por primera vez en el Expocómic 2010.

Hale, ahí va:

Apertura de tienda online en ETSY

2010-10-24T22:15:00.007+02:00

Nueva tienda en etsy:
La Dame Wächter Workshop

Lo particular: De la diversidad fisonómica

2010-10-21T12:15:00.007+02:00

Un boceto rápido que aspira a convertirse en algo

Cosas que nunca hice

2010-05-06T11:21:00.007+02:00

Resultado:

- Detesto la pintura hasta nuevo aviso. Horrible pérdida de tiempo.
- Descubro que me gusta esculpir. Genial profesor, el único. GRACIAS. Muchas ideas nuevas y gran enriquecimiento.
- Cambio de facultad.

Dorothy Circus Gallery - What a wonder food world

2010-02-10T01:04:00.017+01:00

Mutter der Schmerzen (Madre de los dolores)
Óleo sobre lienzo

Fehler und Folgen (Errores y consecuencias)
Óleo sobre lienzo

Para comerte mejor
Óleo sobre lienzo

Unpleasant guillotine (Guillotina desagradable)
Óleo sobre lienzo

It's lunch time, darling (Es la hora de comer, cariño)
Óleo sobre lienzo

Delicious
Digital sobre lienzo

Exquisite
Digital sobre lienzo

Devoción e indiferencia
Digital sobre lienzo

The easy choice (La elección fácil)
Óleo sobre tabla

Exposición WHAT A WONDER FOOD WORLD

2010-01-23T21:35:00.006+01:00

Del 5 de febrero al 2 de abril. ¡Pasen y vean!

Miss Keaton

2009-11-11T19:33:00.000+01:00

Towneater

2009-07-15T00:27:00.004+02:00

¡Acabado!

Trabajos en proceso

2009-05-29T00:10:00.002+02:00

Los viajes de Nin

2009-05-04T21:18:00.014+02:00

Bueno, pues...Cuelgo algunas páginas del que fue nuestro intento para el concurso de cuentos ilustrados de Kalandraka. El tierno cuento sobre este niño que viaja libremente a cualquier lugar que se imagina corrió a cargo de mi maravillosa madre, Mª Ángeles Tirado Muñoz. Aunque no ganásemos nada fue una gran experiencia para mí trabajar con ella tan de cerca. ¡De todo se sacan cosas buenas!

Mi lado oculto

2009-04-01T20:54:00.000+02:00

Hay montones de cosas que no salen a la luz porque no veo el sitio donde ponerlas. Supongo que el blog es un buen sitio para sacar todos esos trabajillos que se quedan en la carpeta "otros", "cosas", o "m___". Reíd, reíd...ahora que podeis.

2007/2008 - Retrato a óleo encargado por Nieves, profesora de fotografía de la escuela de artes de Granada.

2007/2008 - Infografía vectorial, trabajo de clase.

2009 - Diseño de logo y algunas cosas más para TINASERPENTINA

Bob el sucio

2009-03-25T01:43:00.000+01:00

Cada vez me gusta más este estilo..buahaha

El funcionamiento de una mosca

2009-03-15T17:14:00.000+01:00

Sigo explorando y desetiquetándome.

Ice cream fever

2009-03-08T15:17:00.002+01:00

Trying new styles. I need it!

2009-01-10T17:12:00.001+01:00

"Delicious"

Beautifully ugly

Photoshop & Wacom

"Marie Antoinette"

Photoshop & Wacom

"Amoelbarroco Pirate"

Photoshop & Wacom

Rodolfo

2008-06-14T06:51:00.002+02:00

"Paul Papperlapapp und Jakob Quatschnight" Cuento para niños

2008-05-30T07:54:00.000+02:00

¡Por fin acabé las prácticas, weeee! Sé que un mes es poco, pero se me ha hecho largo largo...
La gente ha sido muy agradable, y al final no ha estado tan mal.
El resultado del mes ha sido el comienzo de un proyecto del dueño de la empresa: ilustrar un libro para niños que escribió. A lo largo del mes descifré sus explicaciones para diseñar a los personajes e hice las pocas ilustraciones que me dieron tiempo. Acabé las dos primeras y casi terminé la tercera.
Ahora lo presentará a editoriales, y si les interesa, me llamarán para acabar el libro como freelancer.
Bueno, basta de cháchara, dejo las dos ilustraciones que terminé. Los diseños están en la página web, para el que le interese.

"Towneater"

2008-05-27T07:05:00.002+02:00

Illustrations and sketches

2008-05-24T07:23:00.001+02:00

"Magic for the magician"

Collaboration with Manuel Mirage

Digital painting

"Coraline studio"

My vision of Coraline after reading the book

Artrage & Wacom

"Everything that fly can go away easily"

Pencil & pen

"A paper in blank"

Pencil & Pens

"Devoción e indiferencia"

2008-03-09T23:04:00.001+01:00

2007-11-08T01:59:00.000+01:00

Illustration as cover of Weird Tales Magazine

2007-10-29T11:28:00.001+01:00

The wiseman from the Labyrinth

2007-04-02T20:03:00.001+02:00