Category: Urban Sketching

Palladian Odyssey 2018 – Tour 1

02.06.18 10.09.18Travel, Urban Sketching Asolo, Italy, Palladio, Veneto, Vicenza

Apart from travelling to the penguins I fulfilled myself another dream this year: a sketching tour. Initially I wanted to go to Venice. I found a German travel operator for…

Milan

01.06.18 03.09.18Travel, Urban Sketching Italy, Milan, Urban sketching

On my way to the Palladian Odyssey 2018 I made a stop in Milan. I have never been to Milan or Padua before, therefor I didn’t know in the beginning…

An Old Mill

11.05.18 13.08.18Urban Sketching House, Lower Austria

Driving through Lower Austria I discovered this old mill. It is so old that even the necessary mill stream doesn’t exist anymore. I couldn’t find out if everything war private…

The Gables Again

10.05.18 14.08.18Urban Sketching House, Lower Austria

Undeniable one of my favourite buildings. I sketched it already but in black and white. I changed the angle of view and decided to use colour. This will definitely not…

MUMOK and Faber-Castell

02.05.18 20.05.20Urban Sketching Museum, USK Vienna, Vienna

This was an unusual meeting of the USK Vienna. Faber-Castell presented some of their products especially for urban sketcher. We could use them on location and – how nice of…

Nikolaigasse

30.04.18 26.06.19Urban Sketching St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna

Nikolaigasse is an unspectacular blind alley in the city of Vienna. But it is a very popular among the photograph taking tourists as I found out when sketching there. It…

Palais Coburg

25.04.18 14.08.18Urban Sketching Ringstrasse, Vienna

The Palais Coburg has probably the most expensive view in Austria. Although planed by one of Queen Victoria’s uncle in 1840, it was only his son August Victor Louis of…

Jesuit Church

18.04.18 10.08.18Urban Sketching Church, Vienna

Another sketch I did during my lunch breaks. The Jesuit Church is far more interesting inside with its illusionary frescos by Andrea Pozzo. In contrast to St. Michael’s Church this…

Jedenspeigen Castle

14.04.18 13.08.18Urban Sketching Colour, Lower Austria, Palace

World history was written here – well not exactly here, but a few steps from here. There the battle at Dürnkrut und Jedenspeigen took place on the 26th of August…

St. Michael’s Church

11.04.18 10.08.18Urban Sketching Church, USK Vienna, Vienna

Today I joined the USK Vienna for the first time. The weather was not god and the few who came, disappeared rather soon again. St. Michael’s is one of Vienna’s…

Historicism Makes Me Megalomaniac

06.04.18 14.08.18Urban Sketching Gruenderzeit, Historicism, Ringstrasse, Vienna

As the temperatures have risen at a level which allowed open air sketching without becoming frostbite I brought my new sketchbook Stilman & Birn Beta Series A4 to the Ringstraße.…

Sketching in Antarctica

03.03.18 21.08.18Urban Sketching Antarctica, Iceberg, Penguin

In my mind the cruise through the Arctic was rather calm apart from a turbulent crossing of the Barents Sea. That’s why I was convinced to come back with a…

Antarctica Palette

04.02.18 04.03.19Colour, Tools and Materials, Urban Sketching Antarctica, Blue, Colour, Palette

For many days I was experimenting like an alchemist to create the perfect mix of my ink for my trip to Antarctica. I still haven’t found it, but I was…

Ink Colour – Or The Absurde Secrets Of Amazon

22.01.18 04.03.19Ink, Tools and Materials, Urban Sketching Colour, Ink

Two facts are deemed to be known. Not every product is available in every country. Amazon does not deliver every product to every country. Austrians can tell you a thing…

Travel Preparation

07.01.18 14.08.18Travel, Urban Sketching Antarctica, Penguin

I was practising over the weekend for my next travel. Now you can make an educated guess where I will go 🙂

Rohrers Traditional Ink vs De Atramentis Document Ink

03.12.17 04.03.19Ink, Tools and Materials, Urban Sketching Black, Ink

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…

Spooky

31.10.17 20.09.18Urban Sketching Halloween

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…

Coffee Grinder – A Relict Of The Past

28.10.17 14.08.18Urban Sketching Still life

Does anyone remember the times when we really had to work for our coffee? No, I have never used this coffee grinder. It is a piece of scenery in my…

A Hotel – Grey And Far Away

20.10.17 14.08.18Urban Sketching Vienna

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…

Even Ugly Buildings Are Worth Being Sketched

13.10.17 14.08.18Urban Sketching Vienna

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.

Autumn Coat – Or What I Really Need

09.10.17 14.08.18Urban Sketching Autumn, Clothes, Still life

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…

So Many Windows

29.09.17 14.08.18Urban Sketching Historicism, Vienna

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 –…

Autumn Hat

17.09.17 14.08.18Urban Sketching Autumn, Clothes, Still life

I was very courageous at this sketch. I only draw the measuring, everything else was done free. A big step for me.

Austria’s Answer To The House Of The Seven Gables

27.08.17 14.08.18Urban Sketching Black-White

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…

Plants Are Getting In My Way

27.08.17 14.08.18Urban Sketching Black-White, Plant, Urban sketching

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…

Viennese Doors

27.08.17 23.06.22Urban Sketching Art Nouveau, Door, Vienna

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.…

Village Church

26.08.17 20.08.18Urban Sketching Black-White, Church, Lower Austria

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…

House With Garden But Without Shadow

12.08.17 14.08.18Urban Sketching Black-White, House, Urban sketching

I was a little bit pressed for time and wanted to see how far I would come. I intended to add some shadow, but I couldn’t find my grey brush…

Urban Sketching For The First Time On Location

19.07.17 14.08.18Urban Sketching Church, Lighthouse, Urban sketching, Vienna

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:…

Sketching – How it began

04.06.17 11.11.21Travel, Urban Sketching Urban sketching, Venice

Like so many other people I am the victim of a strange teaching method in a strange school system. After primary school I had two drawing lessons once a week.…