Kulisse

Winter sketching often means bar or café sketching, either with a cup of coffee to warm up or with a beer to let the lines flow more loosely.
One of the local places i like is Kulisse; it has a dimly lit interior, a lot of dark wood paneling and theatre themed decoration. Also very tasty Flammekuchen.

Burg Rheinstein

The castle as seen from the hiking trail that runs parallel to the Rhine.

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42nd Sketchcrawl

Birgit, Jörg and me met up for this year´s first sketchcrawl in Museum der Weltkulturen in Frankfurt/Main.

Phonesketch

Only when i forget my sketchbook.

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.

Im Buchstabenmuseum

The Museum of Letters is a Berlin institution dedicated to collecting and preserving letters. Some of them are vintage advert letterings, other letters belonged to old train stations that were renamed after the Berlin wall fell and thus became obsolete.
They were in the middle of renovating when i was visiting, so signs were being carried around and rows of letters were stacked against the walls. I really liked how the letters looked in piles and stacks, like a threedimensional collage- very nice for drawing.

Straßburg

Rue du Maroquin

Berlin

I very much enjoyed meeting fellow sketchers in Berlin! After Lapin´s exhibition opening we had dinner and drinks in Friedrichshain and on Sunday Urban Sketchers Berlin organised a Sketchcrawl at the HumboldtBox, which apart from great company offered nice views of Berliner Dom and Unter den Linden. It got a little cold on the terrace, so i drew the colourful rikscha that was part of a seemingly random exhibition inside. A grumpy guard told me to not use my watrecolours, so Katrin and me had to finish colours at home.

Darmstadt

Autumn Sketchcrawls with Birgit, Andreas & Lena in Darmstadt, mostly on Mathildenhöhe, an Art nouveau artist´s colony from 1899.