{"id":1713,"date":"2014-02-27T13:32:12","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T13:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.katja-sauer.de\/?page_id=1713"},"modified":"2019-09-30T14:52:51","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T14:52:51","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.katja-sauer.de\/en\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About me"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Geneva; color: #ff00ff;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Animal portraits and animal paintings &#8211; my passion<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Geneva;\"><span style=\"color: #3f3f3f;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2069\" src=\"https:\/\/www.katja-sauer.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Katja-und-Mausi.jpg\" alt=\"Animal portraits, my passion - Katja Sauer and Mausi\" width=\"400\" height=\"421\" \/><br \/>\nMy name is Katja Sauer.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #3f3f3f;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #3f3f3f;\">I live in the beautiful Black Forest and I am a freelance artist with a focus on drawings of animal paintings and animal portraits. These occur mainly after a photo submission and to the corresponding animal faithfully reproduce with all its characteristics.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Geneva;\"><span style=\"color: #3f3f3f;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3f3f3f;\">Animals have always played an important role in my life and to draw them gives me great pleasure since my childhood. Early on I was allowed to draw different animals from friends and acquaintances, drawings of dogs over cats portraits to pictures of horses.<br \/>\nFrequently my animal drawings were ordered as birthday gifts.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Geneva;\"><span style=\"color: #3f3f3f;\">Even in school, I often do not let me keep from drawing &#8211; to the chagrin of some teachers! ;-)<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #3f3f3f;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #3f3f3f;\">I&#8217;m a self-taught artist and I have acquired the various\u00a0<\/span><strong><a title=\"Techniques and materials of Katja Sauer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.katja-sauer.de\/en\/techniques-materials\">painting techniques<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"color: #3f3f3f;\">\u00a0in the course of time. I always learn something new with great enthusiasm. Each painting is a new and exciting challenge, as well as every animal has a unique character. I try to reproduce this in my drawings. The first pictures were taken in charcoal and pencil, after many years I began to draw with soft pastels. Further drawing techniques will follow..<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Geneva;\"><span style=\"color: #3f3f3f;\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-9189 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.katja-sauer.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/NEU-2018-Tierzeichnungen-Tierportraits-Katja-Sauer-3-279x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"257\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.katja-sauer.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/NEU-2018-Tierzeichnungen-Tierportraits-Katja-Sauer-3-279x300.jpg 279w, https:\/\/www.katja-sauer.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/NEU-2018-Tierzeichnungen-Tierportraits-Katja-Sauer-3-140x150.jpg 140w, https:\/\/www.katja-sauer.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/NEU-2018-Tierzeichnungen-Tierportraits-Katja-Sauer-3.jpg 503w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 257px) 100vw, 257px\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-15142 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.katja-sauer.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Shahin-und-Katja-2019-2-293x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"266\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.katja-sauer.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Shahin-und-Katja-2019-2-293x300.jpg 293w, https:\/\/www.katja-sauer.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Shahin-und-Katja-2019-2-146x150.jpg 146w, https:\/\/www.katja-sauer.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Shahin-und-Katja-2019-2.jpg 527w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-9191 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.katja-sauer.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/2018-NEU-Tierzeichnungen-und-Tierportraits-von-Katja-Sauer-3-285x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"265\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.katja-sauer.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/2018-NEU-Tierzeichnungen-und-Tierportraits-von-Katja-Sauer-3-285x300.jpg 285w, https:\/\/www.katja-sauer.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/2018-NEU-Tierzeichnungen-und-Tierportraits-von-Katja-Sauer-3-143x150.jpg 143w, https:\/\/www.katja-sauer.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/2018-NEU-Tierzeichnungen-und-Tierportraits-von-Katja-Sauer-3.jpg 513w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 265px) 100vw, 265px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Animal portraits and animal paintings &#8211; my passion My name is Katja Sauer.\u00a0 I live in the beautiful Black Forest and I am a freelance artist with a focus on drawings of animal paintings and animal portraits. 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