Born in 1960, Albert Kiefer is a professional visual designer who lives and works in Venlo in the Netherlands. He studied a BA in arts and art history at the Academy of Fine Arts in Maastricht and co-founded the visual design company StormHand in 1992.
Since rediscovering the joys of drawing with real markers in 2016, Albert posts daily sketches of buildings and street scenes on his Instagram account @housesketcher, where he has amassed more than 140,000 followers.
www.society6.com/albertkiefer
Setting ground rules
I’ve been working in visualisation for well over 30 years now. When I was in art school, MTV had just come out and I was really interested in getting into that. I got a job in a computer graphics firm in 1990 and I’ve been doing it ever since.
I work for a variety of clients, local governments, businesses… What I do is visualising in the broadest sense of the word, so anything that people need to be able to show: an idea, a concept, a product design, anything. I live near an old ruined Spanish fortress that they dug up a couple of years ago and they asked if I could show how this looked originally. I don’t use engineering packages, like Autocad, I use what I call artistic types of 3D studio packages – it needs to look great, they don’t have to build it.
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Still life IN 3 HOURS
Former BP Portrait Award runner-up FELICIA FORTE guides you through a simple, structured approach to painting alla prima that tackles dark, average and light colours in turn
Movement in composition
Through an analysis of three masterworks, landscape painter and noted author MITCHELL ALBALA shows how you can animate landscape composition with movement
Shane Berkery
The Irish-Japanese artist talks to REBECCA BRADBURY about the innovative concepts and original colour combinations he brings to his figurative oil paintings from his Dublin garden studio
The Working Artist
Something old, something new... Our columnist LAURA BOSWELL has expert advice for balancing fresh ideas with completing half-finished work
Washes AND GLAZES
Art Academy’s ROB PEPPER introduces an in-depth guide to incorporating various techniques into your next masterpiece. Artwork by STAN MILLER, CHRIS ROBINSON and MICHELE ILLING
Hands
LAURA SMITH continues her new four-part series, which encourages you to draw elements of old master paintings, and this month’s focus is on capturing hands
Vincent van Gogh
To celebrate The Courtauld’s forthcoming landmark display of the troubled Dutch master’s self-portraits, STEVE PILL looks at the stories behind 10 of the most dramatic works on display
BRING THE drama
Join international watercolour maestro ALVARO CASTAGNET in London’s West End to paint a dramatic street scene
Serena Rowe
The Scottish painter tells STEVE PILL why time is precious, why emotional responses to colour are useful, and how she finds focus every day with the help of her studio wall
Bill Jacklin
Chatting over Zoom as he recovers from appendicitis, the Royal Academician tells STEVE PILL about classic scrapes in New York and his recent experiments with illustration
