Beside some pathetic attempts in calligraphy during schooldays I had no idea about waterproof ink before I began urban sketching. On the internet I discovered two major recommendations: Noodlers and…
Somewhere in the world is winter, but of course not here in Vienna. Instead of building snowmen I was painting them (Another figure of which I don’t know the manufacturer.)…
When I was a child I always wanted to celebrate Halloween. Round here we celebrated on the 31st of October the International Savings Day at most. After my childhood was…
The last outdoor sketch for 2017. I don’t believe we will get a winter this year but it is definitively too cold to sketch outside. I bought me Faber Castell…
This branch of the ministry of agriculture does not belong to Vienna’s most beautiful buildings. But it is near my office and I sketched it during lunch break.
After sketching my autumn hat I found it a good idea to sketch my preferred autumn outfit including my duffle coat. Sketching the foreshortening of the boots was the most…
In fact I choose the house because it has so many windows. I wanted to practise sketching them. Unfortunately the buildings of Historicism have a lot of embellishments, too –…
Obviously this house has only three gables. (Austria is a little bit smaller that the United States ;-).) It is a former factory, which has been closed for decades. I…
This is a homework for Liz Steel’s Sketching Now Foundations course. Obviously the assignment was to draw a part of a building covered by plants. I was amazed when I…
Another assignment for the Sketching Now Foundations course. This is the entrance of a beautiful Viennese art nouveau house, which was built in 1911 after the plans by August Fondi.…
On a sunny weekend I sketched a village church in Lower Austria from two different points of view and in different styles. It is a fortified church, which means the…
It was on a hot summer day during lunch time that I did my first real urban sketching. I picked one of the most impressing and oldest buildings in Vienna:…
Welcome
My name is Patricia. Travelling, painting flat tin figures and urban sketching are three of my hobbies. And that’s exactly what this website is about.
And now for something completely different
One reason why I like travelling and sketching is that it gives me plenty of time to listen to music. Part of my collection was used as data material for the test phase of a new project. If you have ever asked yourself what I am listening while I am waiting for the next train or swinging the brush, the answer is here.