We have this wonderful music series at church every summer which is called „Music during market time“, meaning: on Saturday mornings, when all the farmers sell their produce in the market square, there is also half an hour of music
The other day I went to the small town Bleckede which is right on the Elbe river. I am going to teach a workshop there in August – more about that later – and needed to see what the lay
The other day, I enthusiastically wrote about sketchwalking as a new method to discover subjects to paint. In my day to day life, I usually only have limited amounts of time to paint, and often not even enough for a
Recently, I made a wonderful discovery which has changed revolutionised the way I go about finding subjects to paint, and today I want to tell you all about it. I went on, or rather I happened upon, a sketchwalk as
My plan for this year is to sketch more from observation. Ideally, I would sketch something at home or outdoors every day; realistically though, judging by the first three weeks of the year, I can manage about 5 or 6
… are useful if you desperately need to practice your people drawing skills! I managed to persuade my parents and their best friend to give me 10 minutes of their time each, got our my watersoluble markers and quickly set
I recently posted a drawing of my wee one sleeping (here). Well, there are more where this one came from! It is such a joy jut sitting and drawing him whilst he is sleeping – better than just sitting there
I am lagging behind with posts… good things have happened really recently, but I have to start where I left off (in August apparently) and work my way into the present from there. So here goes: In August, my art
Having a baby bestows so much happiness and many little wonders on my life! I am exhausted often, of course, and I am flustered about the chaos at home even more often, I think (toys everywhere). But then I get
As I said in a recent blog post, time for painting is relatively scarce at the moment. Most of my time with the brush is spent indoors, too, so much so that I noticed in a recent outside sketching endaevour
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