von Antje | 18. Nov. 2016 | Allgemein, Skizzen/Sketches
On my way to work two days ago: we had just left a train station in the middle of nowhere when the train came to a sudden screeching halt. Nobody knew what was going on. The guy with the coffee cart came by, we got coffees, everybody waited patiently, sipping their...
von Antje | 16. Nov. 2016 | Allgemein, Skizzen/Sketches
At work, I usually listen to a lot of talks on various subjects. Attending lectures presents you with a lot of captive subjects and therefore is great for sketching. I have a lot of research-related sketches but none came as easy and are as loose as this one. This is...
von Antje | 15. Nov. 2016 | Allgemein, Skizzen/Sketches
Whenever I have to wait somewhere for something, I try to have my sketching gear at the ready. This complicated sketch – there is so much happening in an ordinary street! – came into being whilst I was waiting for David to have his hair cut. I was in the...
von Antje | 14. Nov. 2016 | Allgemein, Zu verkaufen/Available
We went to a lovely little gallery yesterday. It was quite a ways over country roads to get to it and so I saw an opportunity for painting a snowy scene in the car. This scene wouldn’t have been my first choice; in fact, we were running out of daylight fast and...
von Antje | 13. Nov. 2016 | Allgemein, Skizzen/Sketches
I had business in Cologne yesterday, and remembering that the massive Cathedral is right at the main train station (I was travelling by train) I arranged everything so that I had a one-hour layover there for sketching. I had not reckoned with the weather, however: it...