Sketchtraveller

1st Advent – A Christmas Elf

29.11.20 29.11.20Urban Sketching

Even Corona could not prevent it: today is the 1st Advent. This year it really should be the quietest time of the year. Normally I am mostly involved in Vienna’s…

Halloween – 2020

31.10.20 31.10.20Urban Sketching

Some things you can rely on even in times like these: Halloween takes place and I have a matching sketch. This year it’s the broom I hang up every autumn…

Shopping In Venice Without Venice

11.08.20 11.08.20Travel, Urban Sketching

With a heavy heart I have already resigned myself to it, I will not travel to Venice this year. But thanks to Valeria and Sebastian from Venezia Autentica a piece…

St. Josef’s Hospital Church Speising

31.07.20 31.07.20Urban Sketching

This time it really took a long time before I picked up the brush again. The last months were not exactly fun privately, professionally and healthwise even without Corona. The…

Many Surprises In Marseille

11.05.20 11.05.20Travel, Urban Sketching

My knowledge about Marseille was limited to the reading of Duma’s The Count of Monte Cristo. Therefore, one surprise after the other awaited me there during my short trip at…

The Taste Of Ireland

06.05.20 06.05.20Urban Sketching

In 1999 I spent an unforgettable time in beautiful Ireland. One week in Dublin and four weeks in an Irish language course near Galway. My liver would probably not have…

Birthday In Times Of Corona

03.05.20 03.05.20Urban Sketching

Like all Central Europeans born in spring, I had a rather lonely birthday this year. My family nevertheless managed to bring me flowers. This is the last already quite withered…

North Sea – Looking For The Beach

30.04.20 30.04.20Travel, Urban Sketching

My last beach holiday was decades ago and I have never longed to repeat it since. So when I was asked if I wanted to spend two weeks at the…

Hamburg – The Pearl Of The North

26.04.20 27.04.20Travel

The people of Hamburg have every reason to be proud of their city. Hamburg is beautiful, original, surprising, fun and no matter where you go, you end up at the…

What I always wanted and will never get

16.04.20 16.04.20Urban Sketching

In 2020, thanks to Corona, I spent the Easter holidays and my birthday exclusively with myself. Coincidentally, I had made myself a present shortly before that. I can’t remember what…

Easter 2020

12.04.20 12.04.20Urban Sketching

Happy Easter! Frohe Ostern! Buona Pasqua! Joyeuses Pâques! God påske! Cásca sona! I already know that I certainly do not want to remember this Easter, because it is the first…

You Can Always Rely On Viennese Booksellers

10.04.20 06.05.20Urban Sketching

I like to practice angles by sketching books. While making these sketches I thought about online orders, local booksellers and how steadfastly they stick to their behaviour even during an…

A Bee In Summer

07.04.20 07.04.20Urban Sketching

Now I’m really bored! I sketched a bee (at least I think it is one) that I photographed last summer.

Albrecht Dürer and Urban Sketching

28.12.19 28.12.19Urban Sketching

The Albertina in Vienna holds the largest collection of drawings by Albrecht Dürer. Among them the Hare, the Large Piece of Turf, the Praying Hands, etc. The originals are shown…

Christmas – 2019

24.12.19 24.12.19Urban Sketching

In November I hardly sketched at all. Instead, I carried out a long overdue eviction of my wardrobe. That really took weeks. The time before Christmas was not stressful, but…