Recycling-Wizard

Das schöne bunte Banner  ;-)   hat mich inspiriert, ein Graffitti in der Nachbarschaft zu zeichnen. Es ist ganz neu: Eine Woche vorher waren da erst weisse Buchstaben.

Recycling-Sammelstelle, Freiestrasse in Bern, am Samstagmorgen (Sketchcrawl).

 

PS: In meinem Urban-Sketching-Kurs, der nächsten Donnerstagabend, 7.5. beginnt, hat es noch freie Plätze.

Freiburg im Breisgau

Ich freue mich hier meinen ersten Post machen zu dürfen.
Enstanden beim Skizzierausflug nach Freiburg im Breisgau. Mit Markern lässt es sich recht temporeich arbeiten...

 Münsterplatz

 Res und die Brauerei Ganter

 Das Colombi Schlösschen (à la Gotham City)

Ausflug nach Barcelona

nach dem Motto:

das Motiv, das am nächsten liegt...

Jakob, sehr zufrieden

 

Botanischer Garten Basel

I planned a brief stop at the "botanischer Garten" on my way to the office today. The weather was too nice to be in the greenhouse, where most of the exotic plants live, but I wasn't looking for anything special anyway. For those who missed the "botanical Sketchcrawl" in January or anyone who wants to repeat, there is a similar event on June 20. Details here (at the very bottom): http://www.botanica-week.org/jardin.php?idj=1

Turin - Italien

in Deutschland

Noyon - France

Port-Royal des Champs

En répétition près de Paris, sur les ruines d'une ancienne abbaye, dont il ne reste qu'une chapelle et ce pigeonnier.

Sketching in Lucerne

In Lucerne there's a quite nice café on the shore of Lake Lucerne (or Vierwaldstättersee) called Luz. Here I couldn't resist sketch people fastly while drinking my tea.

Then I met Urs Lauber to see how he conducts his Urban Sketchers' course. People sketching is great to sketch as well.

On the way home. On the train another opportunity to sketch people... specially when they are using the mobile!

Country sketch, an old hut in Hohenrain

Just behind the building where I live is farmland. You really could feel like in an isolated farm far away, if not for the noise of the cars passing by. It's so nice to walk around and see how the crops change every year. I was hopping to see the beautiful canola fields again, but the crops need to rotate.
Instead of yellow fields, I found this interesting hut up the hill. A sympathetic farmer came to see what I was doing there... fortunately she enjoyed it! 

Country Sketch

Urban sketch in Switzerland... difficult to separate the country side from the urban areas... in Switzerland one can't see hard edges between city and countryside, what makes this country so charming! :-)
This idyllic landscape is just behind the building where I live in Hochdorf, in Canton Lucerne.

Im Laden

Ja, ich war heute bei Boesner, nur um einen Bildrahmen zu kaufen... plötzlich hatte ich Lust auf einen Tee und dann... ist ein Sketch geboren!

Baustelle in Affoltern a. A.

Spring in Horw

What a sunny Spring! So nice to observe people working in their garden, everything turning colourful again...

 At the lake in Horw (Vierwaldstättersee)

Paris

So much to see, so much to sketch... Paris smells like art (and other things too, but it doesn't matter now). Lots of opportunities to sketch people inside the subway - I had the feeling, that people just don't care to be drawn. One sit in front of me even asked me to be draw! I promissed him (Tim) to send his sketch by e-mail. No, I don't rip pages out of my sketchbook, but I can scan it...

 Ouside was not so warm but sunny. Once I went to Paris to visit an uncle, I didn't go to museums or other touristic sights. I spent my time mostly in a café or in a park - perfect to sketch. But time was short, so I just did few coloured sketches, some intentional unfinished. 

Train sketching

I'm not a big fan of portraying people in trains and other small spaces for fear of making them feel uncomfortable, so when I do, I find easier to only sketch their legs. Most time they don't realize but even if they do, I guess there are not a lot of people who feel self-conscious about their shoes.