Haute Savoie, St Ferréol

Some fine last days of summer in the French Alps: lovely people, impressive landscape, El Dorado for cyclists and climbers, a shame that I didn´t take french classes back in school... old greek instead - imagine!

3 days in London

Just a few small glimpses of this great city: near and inside the London Museum, St. James’s Park.

Bethmannpark, Frankfurt am Main

Sketching with fellow »Rhein-Main« sketchers Jenny, Lena, Thomas, Andreas, Katja, Markus and Clara at the Chinese Garden inside the Bethmannpark. Afterwards we took the short walk to the Römerberg, which was crowded and busy on this day... Besides, there was a anti-Putin-demonstration of Ukrainian people and supporters going on.

Winter pickings

Glad, that the indoor-season is over and spring's here - although I´ve had really nice times with fellow sketchers at different museums in Mainz, Wiesbaden and Frankfurt.


 

Freiburg

The results (sketchwise) of a weekend trip to Freiburg in the south of Germany: Historic »department-store«-building (from 1532) opposite to the Cathedral (Münster). Then, driving a few meters up (1.200 m), my first and probably my last snow for this winter (for the temperature now is almost springlike) – and some fast sketches out on the streets during the »Straßenfasnet«, the street carnival that happened to take place on that weekend...

Elephants and Crocodiles

Sketching with Lapin and Markus in the Senckenberg Museum Frankfurt. You can chose either to have lots of bones and skulls (Dinosaurs and Co), or you could go for some stuffed furry animals …





At the 42nd International Sketchcrawl I met Birgit and Jenny at the »Weltkulturen Museum«, also Frankfurt. We sketched crocodile boat-stems, creepy skulls and figurines. I failed terrificly to achive some likeness in a wooden male-figure and had a great afternoon anyway.

National Maritime Museum and Eden Project

Sennen Cove, Cornwall

Hino Contessa

Another »England«-sketch: Hino Contessa 1300, a french-italian-japanese co-production of the 1960's... The London Science Museum has a lot more to offer, of course, not to mention the nearby Natural History Museum. A sketcher‘s paradise. I didn´t get more than this very sketch, but the good news is, both museums will be there for quite a while...

Science Museum London

St. Ives, High Tide and the Old Lighthouse

It was low tide, when I began sketching this boat in the huge harbor of St. Ives. I positioned my stool and stuff and was almost done with the drawing, when suddenly I felt the need to turn my head. A tidal wave moved gentle but steadily towards me. I had 5 seconds to grab everything and move away quite a bit with the hope to be able to turn back to my place, but obviously the water had no intentions to disappear. So I decided to face the facts and I moved on to the lighthouse on the Pier, high and dry. After a few minutes, the boat was surrounded by water, the high tide had reconquered the inner harbour again. Therefor I had to colour it later, in a more comfortable place...

Port Isaac

On the way back from Tintagel Castle we stopped at Port Isaac – both on the cornish north coast.

St. Michael’s Mount, Cornwall

Had a great trip to Cornwall – one of the literally thousand places to visit was St. Michael’s Mount. It is located on a small island and can be reached by foot – as long as it´s low tide (similar to his french twin). At high tide you have to take one of the taxi-boats to get there dry. Although we had strong winds on that very day, we dared the passage...

Marazion is a cute little town – it´s the »bridge« to St. Michael’s Mount, worth to visit as well. We sat in the Chapel Rock Café with warm drinks and a superb cake - as a reward for the shaky boat trip to St. Michael’s Mount before.

Photos: Philip

Russian-Orthodox Church, Wiesbaden

Built between 1847 and 1855, this church is one of Wiesbaden´s landmarks. For many months I resolved to sketch it. Finally I managed to go there on purpose, willing to draw it... After a few moments I realised, that I was totally lost in the mass of details of the building. So I decided to take a back seat and draw a quick sketch and just some of the details and to enjoy the athmosphere of this beautiful late summer saturday. I´ll be back.

Sommertage auf Rügen

Old typical thatched house on the Island of Rügen in the Baltic Sea. The House is decayed at the moment, but will be reconstructed in the next months or years. The reconstructed houses next to it are cute, of course, but I can´t help it, for sketching I prefer this state...

This very small church dates back to 1360, it´s situated in the village Groß Zicker on the island of Rügen. Half way through the sketch it became clear that I´ve miscalculated the format (lack of practice? natural incapacity?...). So I decided to distort it to get the nice wooden top in my picture.

Quick sketches. Pencil and watercolour.