Early morning exercise (English only)

Early morning exercise (English only)

Today, I started my day with a little exercise in composition and tonal values. I found the exercise on Tom Hoffman’s GREAT website. Tom Hoffman often puts up value exercises, i.e. ways in which you can learn to create depth in a painting. I have learned a lot...
Urban Sketching in Lüneburg

Urban Sketching in Lüneburg

Dear friends and blog followers, please allow me to unabashedly share my pleasure with you about how well my Urban Sketching course is going! For it is going really well 🙂 The students are eager learners and I am a patient teacher, I think; having taught adults for...
Wild flower bouquet | Wildblumenstrauß

Wild flower bouquet | Wildblumenstrauß

I am so glad that I have been able to give into spur-of-the-moment painting ideas lately! This was one of them. These wild flowers (or weeds, as some might say) seemed so appealing all of a sudden on Saturday morning that I thought, why not. I got my kit, switched on...
Outside in my garden | Draußen im Garten

Outside in my garden | Draußen im Garten

I’ve been a bit obsessive about the weather lately – if you mind that, don’t read on 😉 It has finally been sunny for an entire day! And I even had the opportunity to spend some time outside sketching! It was blissful, I can tell you, and not only...
Domäne Scharnebeck

Domäne Scharnebeck

An easy sketch out in the sun – after all this horribly cold weather we have had this one was pure bliss! This building is situated on the grounds of an old monastery. It now houses a regional branch of the college in which I teach urban sketching. Eine einfache...