Last call | Letzte Runde

Last call | Letzte Runde

Last night was the last session in a class I ran at the local college for further education. We met up in a brew pub here in Luneburg in order to try our hand at some indoor pub sketching. My students did wonderful sketches of one another for warming up and then...
Around town | In der Umgebung

Around town | In der Umgebung

I don’t do a lot of watercolour sketching these days; it’s either sketching in ink or watercolour painting with the easel. It took a while for me to notice how I had more or less stopped doing what I used to do so often – funny how things just slip...
Home office

Home office

This is my sweetheart working from home. It’s the usual way of things chez Gillands: I sit at my desk or sit/stand at my easel, he is sitting on the sofa all comfortable reading, thinking and typing on his computer. It always amazes me how quiet it is in the...
At the lake | Am See

At the lake | Am See

I had totally forgotten about these sketches! We were away more than a week ago at a friend’s wedding and had the opportunity to enjoy a bit of lake scenery. That’s where I captured these folk. But not only that, I also managed to sketch the view across...
Lübbelau, Scharnebeck

Lübbelau, Scharnebeck

The Lübbelau is a small park in the village of Scharnebeck. Until yesterday, I was teaching an urban sketching class in Scharnebeck, and as I don’t know this place all that well I always felt uncertain about where to take my class. For the last session I made an...