Loreley

Im Zug

Ever since smartphones became common, drawing people without being noticed has become a lot easier. On the train everyone is accustomed to stare and being stared at, and looking at their small phone screens waiting for the next message to pop up. The drawn lines are wobbly sometime due to the rattling of the train.

street views

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.

Flohmarkt

Museumsufer Frankfurt

Pfälzerwald

Rodalben, gezeichnet von einem Aussichtspunkt überhalb des Städtchens.

Wie das Rheintal in den Pfälzerwald übergeht- gesehen vom Café im Hambacher Schloß/ Neustadt Weinstraße.

bars

Drawing in bars. Meeting friends at Thanners, a local institution in my hometown. It feels like nothing ever changes in that place, but in a good way- same crowd, same owners, same shabby furniture and kitschy decoration as ten years ago.

Recently visited a friend in Munich. The museums i wanted to visit were all closed, so we went  for a drink. Or some.

Sobering up at 4 am by consuming a very tasty Schnitzel.

Frühlingsanfang

First day of spring.

Schnee immerzu

I´m reposting my first post to Urban sketchers, from last month, with two additional winter sketches.

It´s winter, which means it´s not exactly sketching season in Germany and I haven´t been drawing much. I leave for work when it´s still dark, and when I come home, it´s dark again, and of course, it´s terribly cold outside. So I drew these views from various windows of my appartment.

These are drawn in square sketchbook with grey paper that i hadn´t used before. It´s nice to use a darker paper to play around with negative space- but it seems the only thing i can draw in it are desaturated winter scenes!

It´s March now and you´d think spring might be coming along, but it´s been snowing again.