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 musical commission | Ein musikalischer Auftrag

A musical commission | Ein musikalischer Auftrag

I am schlepping myself around these days and I just about manage to get the things done that I have to get done, including some drawing and painting. But it’s all a bit much sometimes what with the baby almost being here (which is when I simply lay down and take...
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...
Interwoven | Verwoben

Interwoven | Verwoben

This piece was a real challenge to make. To begin with, because I placed the initial line drawing on top of another illustration which consisted of many lines I had a hard time identifying the lines I had put down. I had to add tone to the places that needed it...