In the park | Im Park

In the park | Im Park

I am sick and tired of never posting any of my sketches anymore and of always feeling like I’m lagging behind… It’s not that I don’t find the time to paint, it’s more that I don’t find the time to post on this site. Sure, I have a...
Die Damespielerin | Woman playing checkers

Die Damespielerin | Woman playing checkers

Dieses Bild, das ich um die Jahreswende gemalt habe, liegt mir sehr am Herzen. Ab 11. März wird es in der Ausstellung der Deutschen Aquarellgesellschaft in Emmerich zu sehen sein, worüber ich mich sehr freue (auch wenn ich selbst leider nicht hinfahren kann). Es war...
Season’s greetings! | Herzliche Grüße!

Season’s greetings! | Herzliche Grüße!

It’s been a while, my friends! I hope you all had a lovely Christmas with your loved ones. At my end we spent Christmas as a family of three with our newborn baby son James. He is just wonderful and a real gift from heaven to us! The weeks since his birth at the...
A week of still lives | Eine Woche Stillleben

A week of still lives | Eine Woche Stillleben

So, last week was my still life week. This means I made one little still life watercolour sketch every day. Doing this usually took me about an hour and was a means to get watercolour sketching again, meaning: I wanted to get back to being quite loose and rather less...
Prickly subjects | Stachelige Motive

Prickly subjects | Stachelige Motive

Continuing with my still lives, I notice a few trends. I tend to want to go for the potted plants first because they seem a lot more interesting than most other subjects around the house even though the sheer plenitude of different shapes and lights on the leaves can...