1st annual meeting of Urban Sketchers Germany

Just a little bit late – here are some of my sketches done during the »premiere«-meeting of Urban Sketchers Germany in Darmstadt. Two days in September 2015 (September 4-6), fantastically organised by Jenny, Birgit, Clara, Lena and Roman, with lots of demos, workshops, a Sketchcrawl on Sunday and a final exhibition at the end.


  

Ostfriesland

Historic Mill in Berdum, the first mill is dated back in 1600.

Landfall buoy, part of the historic harbour exhibition in Carolinensiel / Harlesiel.

Historic vessel, Harlesiel harbour.

Tug boat, exhibited at »Deutsches Marinemuseum« Wilhelmshaven.

Drawing from a photograph at »Deutsches Marinemuseum« Wilhelmshaven.

Sketchcrawl Eltville, 30.05.2015

Sketchcrawl of the Rhein-Main Sketchers in the picturesque town (maybe a bit too picturesque?) of Eltville at the Rhine river.

 

Madrid

Knocked out by a flue, but nevertheless impressed by this great city... Short sketch before leaving to the airport.

Sketchcrawl Palmengarten Frankfurt

Meeting with the »Rhein Main sketchers« – Birgit, Clara, Katja and others. A very cold, almost winterly day in March inside and outside the »Palmengarten« in Frankfurt.

Sketchcrawl in Liége, Belgium

Sitting at the banks of the Meuse river along with Tazab, September 2014

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...

Natural History Museum, Mainz

Saturday 22 of February I´ve spent some time with some fellow sketchers (among them Urban Sketchers Jenny Adam, Andreas Koeniger and Birgit Mueller) at the Natural History Museum in Mainz. Although a part of the museum was closed due to a rennovation, we‘ve had enough themes to draw – in a comfortable setting. I "reactivated" an old brush pen and dared to use a ballpen to go straight away.