Sketchtraveller

Daniel Smith Sugilite – It Glitters

13.03.19 13.03.19Colour, Tools and Materials

Recently I mentioned my enthusiasm for Daniel Smith PrimaTek colours. Thanks to that euphoria, I now possess a colour I have no idea what to do with it. Looking at…

Shrove Tuesday

05.03.19 04.03.19Urban Sketching

Today is the highlight and the last day of carnival. Somehow, I doubt that the fools will disappear until the 11th of November.

Travelling With Ink

03.03.19 04.03.19Ink, Tools and Materials

A converter for a Lamy fountain pen holds ca. 1 ml ink. Being en route one has to restrict oneself to manage with that amount. I use document ink by…

Palette – February 2019

01.03.19 04.03.19Colour, Tools and Materials, Urban Sketching

Last weekend was very relaxing. I was listening to my Opera collection – something I have not done for a long time. And I was playing with my watercolours –…

The Museum Of Applied Arts – Again

28.02.19 04.03.19Urban Sketching

Last year February in Vienna was colder than in Antarctica. This year it provided us with some very warm days. It was possible to sketch outside during lunchbreak. Yes, it…

MAK – Inner Courtyard

21.02.19 20.05.20Urban Sketching

I sketched a part of the MAK (Museum of Applied Arts) last year using a smaller sketchbook (Stilman & Birn, Beta, A5, hardbound). In the meanwhile I use a bigger…

Tea During Lunch Break

19.02.19 19.02.19Urban Sketching

Most people drink tea during lunch break, I sketch it due to various reasons. Cups and teapots are a popular but for me very complicated theme. I have to practise.…

Pantherinae in the Natural History Museum

14.02.19 15.02.19Urban Sketching

USK Vienna meeting in the museum. Sketching there is rather comfortable but it this museum is awfully gloomy. It is very difficult to realize details of the exhibits. No birds…

Sweet Tasting

12.02.19 13.02.19Urban Sketching

Vienna is famous for its desserts and tortes. That is not sweet enough for me. I need more, I need chocolate! As with wine, the assortment is huge. Fortunately there…

Carnival

03.02.19 04.02.19Urban Sketching

November the 11th at 11:11 am. is the beginning of carnival in Austria, where it is called "Fasching". From November until midst of January, it is thankfully pushed aside by…

All That Glitters Is Not Gold – Part 2

28.01.19 04.03.19Colour, Tools and Materials, Urban Sketching

As promised, in part 1 I tested all the presented tools for sketching gold and silver. And as in part 1 unfortunately the pictures do not represent lifelike colours. Obviously,…

All That Glitters Is Not Gold – Part 1

21.01.19 04.03.19Colour, Tools and Materials, Urban Sketching

The headline is justified because this post also deals with silver. I use mainly ink and watercolour for urban sketching. Bothe media reach their limits when it comes to paint…

Books and Candle

07.01.19 08.01.19Urban Sketching

Bad weather is always the perfect condition for a good book. This time I did not read it but sketched it. Although books are simple geometrical shapes in principle, they…

Snowflakes

03.01.19 03.01.19Urban Sketching

Right at the beginning, the new year pleased me with snow – unfortunately a rarity in Vienna by now. A good time to show some snowflakes. They were done in…

Hello 2019!

01.01.19 01.01.19Urban Sketching

I welcome the New Year with a happy snowman. May 2019 bring peace, health, happiness, pleasure, new friends, exciting adventures and lot of sketches. Certainly this is a little bit…

Advent In Verona

27.12.18 08.04.19Nativity Scene, Travel

Opera lovers will know the annual summer festival in the arena of Verona and may have been there at least once. It is not unusual to visit this northern Italian…

The High Altar In St. Anne’s Church

09.12.18 17.12.18Urban Sketching

St. Anne’s Church in Vienna organises trumpet concerts during the Advent season. There are several reasons why one should attend one of these concerts. St. Anne’s is an impressing baroque…

Birds Of Prey In The Museum

25.11.18 26.11.18Urban Sketching

I am not a nature lover. My interest in plants hardly exists and I have a very selective attention concerning animals. However, birds of prey belong to my favourites and…

Greetings From Goethe’s Faust

18.11.18 19.11.18Tin Figure

Literary greetings from Goethe’s Faust. It is the second time I painted this group. I sold the first one during an exhibition where I demonstrated how to paint flat figures.…

Happy Halloween 2018

31.10.18 31.10.18Urban Sketching

The asters bloomed gorgeously this autumn and made a perfect background for jack-o'-lantern. Happy Halloween!

In The Natural History Museum

22.10.18 23.10.18Urban Sketching

Vienna has experienced the warmest October since years but last Wednesday it had to rain. This answered the question if the USK Vienna will sketch outside or inside the museum…

Wild Boars In A Matchbox

13.10.18 23.10.18Tin Figure

During the warm season, which lasted this year in Vienna until the third week of October – I neglected flat figure painting. But I promise I will finish some before…

Indian Summer On The Castle Ruin Aggstein

07.10.18 23.10.18Urban Sketching

The castle Aggstein dates back to the 12th century. Today it is a ruin with a spectacular view of the Cultural Landscape Wachau. That alone makes it worthwhile to drive…

Autumnal Still Lives

01.10.18 24.10.18Urban Sketching

Autumn seems to inspire me. I practised "watercolour only" and painted some still lives.

The Beginning Of Autumn

23.09.18 20.09.18Urban Sketching

On the northern hemisphere autumn is beginning today. Finally! I have been longing for it since mid-June. To celebrate autumn I painted a little still life in watercolour only.

Seestadt Aspern – Cretacolor Mix

20.09.18 20.05.20Urban Sketching

If you are interested in history you might have heard about Aspern. Archduke Karl defeated Napoleon there in 1809. Today the Seestadt Aspern one of Europe’s biggest urban development project…

Schloß Hof In Autumn

19.09.18 20.09.18Urban Sketching

Prince Eugene of Savoy was already 62 years old when he bought Schloß Hof and let it remodel. A special feature was the estate farm nearby. After Prince Eugene’s death…

French Urchin With Baguette

15.09.18 17.09.18Tin Figure

I bought this charming flat figure in Kulmbach in 2013. It was made by Reiner Mischko. Back at home I put it beside all the other figures in the cupboard.…

Kellergasse – An Ideal Place For Sketching And Wine Drinking

09.09.18 10.09.18Urban Sketching

If you ever come to Austria you must visit a genuine "Kellergasse" (cellar lane). No, this does not mean visiting an overprised mass tourism institution in Grinzing with parking spaces…

Trieste

07.09.18 10.08.20Travel

I take the strain of travelling because I love to be somewhere else. Going as Viennese to Trieste gives you sometimes the impression you haven’t left home at all. Between…