Freiluftsaison

At the Mainaue in Mainz Kastel and at the swimming pool.

end of the year

November sketches on a sunny weekend, the woods in suburb of Mainz and its most important landmark, the Dom as seen from its cloister.

In December, i met up with Birgit to sketch the christmas market, but that failed. Escaped the rain to a café. Then rummaged through Birgits pens and drew the early evening reflections on the cobbles.

After Christmas, Kurze Straße in Göttingen seen from a corner café.

Oberstadt

Sketching in one of the new cafés that opened up in Gaustraße with the naples yellow that is new to my palette. Also meeting up with fellow sketchers to draw at Schillerplatz and Kupferbergterrassen.

 

 Peter´s and Sabine´s drawings

Fassenacht

 

 

Fastnacht/Carnival in Mainz, everything is decorated in blue, red, yellow and white. Even the statue of Johannes Gutenberg couldn´t escape the notorious cap. The floats are shown before the parade, usually commenting on the current political and social situation in Germany and abroad. This one shows the three wise monkeys, sitting on a EU flag as they watch a refugee ship sink.

Naturhistorisches Museum, 2.

Great turnout at our last sketchmeeting in Mainz last saturday! We all drew the mandatory skeletons at Naturhistorische Museum and even though i already went twice to sketch there, i´m tempted to go again when they open up their new exposition.

Naturhistorisches Museum

Sketches drawn in the museum of natural history in Mainz, which is located in former convent St. Klara. The collection of stuffed and mounted animals is quite diverse, with a lot of very old exhibits of nowadays extinct animals. There´s a lot to draw, so it took me a while till the feeling of being in a cemetery sunk in. All those animals, looking at you from their glass eyes, frozen in a position some taxidermist thought was lifelike, in the dimly lit halls of that former cloister ..it was a bit eerie.

Mainz

Spent a Saturday sketching in Mainz, with Birgit. We started out with some coffee and icecream and slowly made our way to the old town, where we sketched the surroundings of the Mainzer Dom. Afterwards we met some friends at Volkspark, where the annual Weinfest was held.

 

OpenOhr

Pink hair, rubber ducks, people throwing pigments and music at OpenOhr Festival.
Perfect opportunity to succumb to Moleskine sketchbooks again.

Schröders

Watching pretty much everything except the soccer match Eintracht Frankfurt vs. Mainz 05 that was the purpose of this visit to a local pub. As the match ended in a goalless draw I didn´t miss much. Elk´s looking rather bored too.

the audience

Minusgrade

When it´s -10 °C outside that feel more like -20 °C, reasons for going out are few. We stay in and prefer to connect with the outside world through blogging. Here´s Eva, and here´s what she drew on my Wacom: Außer Rand & Band.

Mitfahrgelegenheit

Driving home in a battered old VW bus. I met Vanessa, the driver and another girl, Tracy, through an online car pooling comunity that arranges cheap lifts. Though the heating didn´t work and the interior fitting was coming apart, it was much nicer than taking the train.

kaffee in der annabatterie

café sketching with complying companion, who was engrossed in his favourite newspaper.

jazz

i found this sketch from february- AYM refers to the jazz band playing in the background, called angry young men. At SchonSchön bar/club, Mainz. These three were engaged in a lively discussion, and i sipped my drink and drew.

kräne

Zollhafen, Mainz.

0:1

Women´s World Cup 2011, Japan upsets Germany in the quarterfinals.Wishful thinking on my part: I first jotted down Germany-Japan: 1:0.

cat

 

obese cat, ridiculously named Snoopy.

uferstraße

 

mainz

dots

susan brings some 50s style to the suburbs with her maillot de bain and sunglasses.

wieder strand

evening sun hitting mombeach. i need to take life drawing classes again.