Thank you!

Thank you!

… to all my English language subscribers! Ever since I started posting sketches and paintings to this blog I have done so in two languages: English and German. Being married to an American and absorbing my knowledge of watercolour painting mainly from English...
Musicians again! | Wieder ein paar Musiker!

Musicians again! | Wieder ein paar Musiker!

We have this wonderful music series at church every summer which is called „Music during market time“, meaning: on Saturday mornings, when all the farmers sell their produce in the market square, there is also half an hour of music in the nearby church....
On the river | Am Fluss

On the river | Am Fluss

The other day I went to the small town Bleckede which is right on the Elbe river. I am going to teach a workshop there in August – more about that later – and needed to see what the lay of the land was. I realise this kinda sounds as if I was wondering if...
Back to the roots | Zurück zu den Anfängen

Back to the roots | Zurück zu den Anfängen

This month I visited my parents (read: the biological babysitters to my wee one) and thus had plenty of opportunity for plein air painting, plus I taught a plein air workshop which needed to be prepared, and so I was out even more painting what I could. Which turned...
Sketchwalk in Lüneburg

Sketchwalk in Lüneburg

The other day, I enthusiastically wrote about sketchwalking as a new method to discover subjects to paint. In my day to day life, I usually only have limited amounts of time to paint, and often not even enough for a spot of urban sketching. But even 50 minutes will be...