Urban Sketching Archive - Sketchtraveller

And Marseille surprises again

14.10.22 15.10.22Travel, Urban Sketching

Marseille certainly won’t win any beauty contest. It impresses more with its richness of facets. The city changes its face every few steps. Just as you are strolling along a…

Torcello without my camera

28.09.22 28.09.22Tools and Materials, Travel, Urban Sketching

The decision was not easy for me. A self-bound sketchbook made of Moleskine paper in A5 size, watercolour pencils, paint box, brushes, fineliner and fountain pen but no camera would…

An entrance door again after a long time

23.06.22 23.06.22Urban Sketching

After almost two years (I know, I’m lazy!) I went to a meeting of the local urban sketchers again yesterday. It took place at Paper Republic. A fine little company…

A Lazy Day at Schloss Hof

20.06.22 20.06.22Urban Sketching

On Saturday I spent a wonderful day at Schloss Hof. One of the main tasks was to watch the gophers and lie lazily in a deckchair. At some point I…

Sketching in Styria

14.06.22 14.06.22Urban Sketching

It’s not that I’ve refused the brush over the last few months, but I’ve been in absolutely no mood to publish anything. Like almost everyone, I’m struggling with the fact…

Christmas Time Is Elf Time

19.12.21 19.12.21Urban Sketching

Last year at Christmas, four new elves moved in with me. They posed for me for the 4th Advent.

Who will certainly not get on my nerves next year on Torcello

11.11.21 13.11.21Travel, Urban Sketching

Autumn changes things on Torcello. There are fewer visitors, which may have something to do with the change in the timetable of the vaporetti. The last few years there was…

Venice In Autumn

11.11.21 14.11.21Travel, Urban Sketching

With Venice in autumn during the week before Halloween, I expected damp days, dull light and mystical wisps of mist creeping slowly from the sea over the canals and through…

Venice in the Time of Corona

10.11.21 14.11.21Travel, Urban Sketching

I didn’t dare tell you in 2020, let alone write it, but I was in Venice that year too. No one could remember when there had ever been so few…

Halloween 2021

31.10.21 31.10.21Urban Sketching

Happy Halloween!

Halloween is coming soon

15.10.21 15.10.21Urban Sketching

Fear you, Halloween is getting closer and closer!

Beginning of Autumn – 2021

22.09.21 22.09.21Urban Sketching

Autumn starts today and that means: Halloween is coming soon!

Autumn is Here Again!

15.09.21 13.09.21Urban Sketching

At last! Summer is thinking of saying goodbye and autumn is coming. So it’s time to draw a scarecrow once again.

Jedenspeigen – A View From The Hill

13.09.21 11.11.21Urban Sketching

An unmistakable sign that autumn is finally beginning is the annual Kellergassenfest (A Kellergasse is something typical Austrian. I explained it already in another post with some sketches.) in Jedenspeigen.…

Back to Urban Sketching

16.08.21 16.08.21Urban Sketching

It seem years have passed since I last sketched on location. I have not been very motivated in the last few months. This had less to do with Corona than…

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…

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 13.10.22Travel, 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…

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 11.11.21Urban 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…

Happy Halloween – 2019

31.10.19 31.10.19Urban Sketching

Looshouse

15.10.19 15.10.19Urban Sketching

Adolf Loos caused a scandal in 1910 with this house, built for an exclusive men’s outfitter. To this day, this wonderful building forms a fascinating contrast to the surrounding Baroque…

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