Frank Schlief

Sketching & painting during my childhood, my imaginations were like a full-color film, happily inspired when I got a pen or brush in my hand, just to work out my thoughts with my own hands since I can remember. Take away the gray to paint how I like it, every day! For me, life in the 70s, when we were in an analog world without digital gadgets, was easy to look for confidence and happiness.
Art became a real challenge to express my thoughts, to visualize my ideas.
After attending regular school, graduating from the University of the Arts in Hamburg, back in the '90s, I have been working as a freelance illustrator for more than 30 years until today, and I am still passionate about it! I have worked for advertising, book publishers, and filmmakers. To make a living, I deal with creating and sketching all the time: animatics, sketches, layouts, storyboards, and illustrations.
I love to make ideas visible. If you let me do - I can help you, too, to bring your thoughts to the surface!
Fortunately, I find time to plan and create more oil paintings.
I can tell with heart and soul: this is my true vocation!
My heartbeats are painting my soul on canvas, to bring you joy, happiness, and satisfaction!
Art is my religion.
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I studied illustration art at Hamburg College of Art Armgardstrasse with a diploma in 1996.

Back in 2018, I have had a vernissage in a small Gallery in Hamburg. I presented 25 watercolor flower paintings, mostly sized in 46x61cm.
Way back last year in 2020, I also had a successful Hamburg-based vernissage which was named: "all-inclusive" with 15 oil pieces, 15 watercolor paintings, and additional crafted postcard prints, which were really fun and a great pleasure too!