One of the perks of organising cultural events is that you get (or have) to attend (all of) them for free and that, in contradistinction to other guests, you can pretty much roam freely in the house. I made full
I felt an itch yesterday to get out the ink bottles and nibs to draw a figure. Unfortunately I pulled the label off my ink bottle, so I can’t tell you what brand it is. But it is amazing! Runs
The first time I sketched this street I was standing at the other end looking right along the street at the ‚ordinary‘ eye level. I love that kind of view, and I also didn’t mind that my gaze (and the
Likenesses are tricky! But that’s ok; no need to despair. For a while there, everyone I sketched looked a bit like Robert Downey Jr. I have also sketched my Dad looking like Lenin one time. I have to take my
One of the main lessons in the course I am going to teach from 24 April will be to accept and embrace imperfection in sketching. A perfect sketch is not always a good one, and a wobbly or crooked sketch
Last week I was away on business in the Hanover hinterland, arriving well early for my appointment so that I could sketch a bit. Alas, it was bucketing it down so badly that I was almost drenched in no time
Early this year, right after coming back from the US, I was yearning to paint en plein air and in oil again but my new easel simply didn’t arrive at my home. This painting is from that time and it
The other day in town…I had about half an hour to kill and this wee street seemed very pretty! I added the ink later on because I couldn’t get the right kind of punch into the sketch on location. Emphasising
I’ve been sketching people on and near trains for a while now and I will keep doing it for yet another while as part of a project. My impression right now, expressed passionately, is: Damn those smart phones! I get
Every time I see the roofline of the warehouses in Hamburg’s ‚docklands‘ I get this special feeling. They are incredibly ornate for warehouse roofs! But then again, these warehouses weren’t and aren’t owned by just anybody. The HHLA who operates
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