Sketchtraveller

My First Sketchcrawl

30.08.18 31.08.18Urban Sketching

This week Sandra, one of our unfailing USK Vienna organizers, called for a sketch crawl. It should be my first one. Quick sketching is not one of my strengths. To…

A non-recommendable fountain pen with a flexy nib

25.08.18 04.03.19Fountain Pen, Tools and Materials, Urban Sketching

Prestigify, an online shop for art supplies, located in Canada, offers a flexy nib calligraphy fountain pen to a very low price. "If you buy cheaply, you pay dearly." This…

Getaway In Baden Near Vienna

19.08.18 04.06.19Travel, Urban Sketching

As the name suggests Baden near Vienna is a little town not far away from Austria’s capital. Against expectation it is an ideal place for a getaway. Baden is famous…

Hundertwasserhouse

08.08.18 31.08.18Urban Sketching

In the 1970ies Friedensreich Hundertwasser, the "opponent of a straight line", designed an apartment building for the city of Vienna, which was built several years later. I was glad when…

Prince Eugene of Savoy was an important military commander, influential politician, great patron and prominent collector. Among other things he collected castles. When he didn’t let them built, he bought…

Not Every Sketch Gets Finished

25.07.18 31.08.18Urban Sketching

I am not a quick sketcher anyway but sometime time passes even quicker. During this meeting of the USK Vienna a thunderstorm caused a premature end. Nevertheless I am very…

Karlskirche And Otto Wagner Pavillon

15.07.18 31.08.18Urban Sketching

Summer and Sunday, the ideal preconditions for urban sketching in the centre of Vienna. Two very different but beautiful buildings are located near each other. When designing the Karlskirche (St.…

Viennese Public Conveniences

12.07.18 14.08.18Urban Sketching

In Vienna even the public toilets are historic and a national landmark. In the 1880ies Johann Gottlieb Wilhelm Beetz got the idea to make money out of nature’s call. He…

Streetview In Vienna

09.07.18 31.08.18Urban Sketching

How to get a street with high houses into a small sketchbook? That’s much more difficult than it already sounds – at least for me. The angles are unreckonable and…

Stadtpark

04.07.18 14.08.18Urban Sketching

The Stadtpark (City Park) is another product of the creation of the Vienna Ringstraße. While looking for something to sketch, I found a clock tower. Until then I had no…

Museum of Applied Arts

29.06.18 28.12.19Urban Sketching

Heinrich von Ferstel was fond of the Renaissance. I can’t do anything with Historicism, but even I like the Museum of Applied Arts (MAK). The disadvantage of a green city…

Torcello – Sacred Tranquillity

04.06.18 13.11.21Travel, Urban Sketching

Between the 9th and the 13th century the most important centre in the north Adriatic lagoon was on Torcello. It was a see with prosperous trading houses and craftsman’s business…

Is Visiting Venice A Good Idea? – Update

03.06.18 28.12.19Travel

In 1995 I visited a performance in the La Fenice opera house. I didn’t come back to Venice until 2017. Can a place famous for looking as in olden days…

Palladian Odyssey 2018 – Tour 1

02.06.18 10.09.18Travel, Urban Sketching

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 – Crossing The Polar Circle

02.03.18 03.09.18Travel

Over 10 years I wanted to go to Antarctica. This February I actually did it. I gained a lot of impressions and experiences and I lost a dream. Since my…

Do Not Change Plane At Frankfurt Airport

01.03.18 29.06.18Travel

I have never been to Frankfurt am Main. No, that is not true. I was very often in Frankfurt am Main but always on the airport never in the town.…

Antarctica Palette

04.02.18 04.03.19Colour, Tools and Materials, Urban Sketching

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

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

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