von Antje | 11. Okt.. 2016 | Allgemein, Skizzen/Sketches
While you’re reading this, I’m most likely sitting on the train to or from work glancing cursorily at other people who are probably also commuters. I do that a lot these days. I’ve been commuting since 2013, and although I mostly get immersed in...
von Antje | 4. Okt.. 2016 | Allgemein, Skizzen/Sketches
Last weekend, I visited friends who live near Bremen, and I booked my journey back home with a deliberate 50 minutes layover in Bremen so that I could sketch at or near the train station. The very end of the platform seemed a good spot because it afforded a lovely...
von Antje | 12. Sep.. 2016 | Allgemein, Figurativ
This monument was built in 1939 to honour of the cavalry regiments who had defended the town during WWI. It depicts a mounted orderly, hence the different kinds of bags on the saddle. Apparently, horse statues like this one are rare. Most of the time, horses in...
von Antje | 9. Sep.. 2016 | Allgemein, Skizzen/Sketches
Fieldwork takes me all kinds of places these days, and often I add an hour of watercolour sketching to the end of my working day. Intent on doing this I strolled over a big cemetary on the outskirts of Berlin on Wednesday. This wooden church was the obvious candidate...
von Antje | 5. Sep.. 2016 | Allgemein, Skizzen/Sketches
My parents came for a visit over the weekend. We went to a vernissage, spent a day in Hamburg riding river boats, had dinner with a lovely Syrian family and explored one of the many cute and tiny towns in the area. It was a good weekend with lots of laughing and warm...
