Lüneburg!

Lüneburg!

This month I was lucky enough to go for a sketch outing not once but twice! And not alone but with a really lovely painting acquaintance! We happened to be able to get away from the respective families because both days were holidays, and with sunny blue skies too!...
My Friday afternoon class | Mein Freitagnachmittagskurs

My Friday afternoon class | Mein Freitagnachmittagskurs

I started teaching at a different community college on Friday afternoons. The class starts at 1:30 and finishes at 7:30 – a lot of time for uninterrupted teaching and learning, a lot of time for chatting and explaining this and that and a lot of time for...
Hamburg

Hamburg

At the beginning of this month I went to Hamburg for a day to sketch and collect reference material for the paintings I am working on right now. I strolled through the docklands and sketched a bunch of boat – or rather, as I see now, I WANTED to sketch all of...
Loose vs. line | Locker vs. nicht-locker

Loose vs. line | Locker vs. nicht-locker

Here are the most recent sketches. They represent two approaches: the first one works entirely without a line drawing underneath whereas the second one represents the opposite approach, the good old line-and-wash method. I had a leisurely moment on a retreat last...