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👨‍🎨 "Me" - the artist behind my art

reinhard-schmidPosted for Everyone to comment on, 5 years ago2 min read

First of all, a friendly hello to everyone and thank you for having me here on whaleshares!

Reinhard Schmid is my real name. I'm a visual artist (painter), and I live in the south of Germany.

A picture supposedly says more than a 1000 words, so please let me begin with a self portrait I did a couple of years ago for a group exhibition in Paris. Since I love riding my motorcycle, this somehow became the underlying theme for my piece...

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Its acrylics and oil on board and the name is "Fly with Me!" The flower I'm holding in one hand is to represent "beauty" as part of my job as an artist. In the other hand I'm holding, what I call my "GO" sign, in contrast to the stop sign we simply see to often.

I'm now a professional artist for a little more than 30 years. My specialty is to work on glass, actually on the later backside in a so called reverse glass (sous verre or Hinterglas) technique with graphite pencil and different color media. I plan to tell you a little more about that in the future...

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For my hinterglas paintings, I also build my own frames.

In addition to the works on glass, I create large oil paintings using a technique inspired by the old Flemish masters. A mix between water and oil based mediums.

Here lately, I have more and more explored digital art. Particularly tokenized rare digital art, which I offer in my stores at MakersPlace and SuperRare, like the piece below (in high resolution)


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On MakersPlace it will soon be available as an animated version. Of course I will be very happy and thankful for every collector who purchases these digital collectibles, but I post this also to inspire you my fellow artists, to get into this brand new technology to present your work and make your image files unique by combining them with a smart contract. Please don't hesitate to ask if you have questions towards that or need any help!


If you like, you can see more of my work in my BeScouted photo collection, where you can see a larger number of my pictures all at once.

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