After an almost consistently terribly hot and dry July, the weather had to be changeable on the last weekend of all days. Despite occasional rain showers including small thunderstorms, I…
Actually I wanted to sketch in Setagayapark, but it was overcrowded with visitors. So I switched to a nearby institution of the city of Vienna. The Karl-Marx-Hof was built in…
Actually, I only do small trips during Advent because I always volunteer at the Vienna Nativity Show during this time. Since it had to be cancelled for the last two…
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…
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…
Autumn is here. How can you tell? Because I go to Venice and Torcello. I do that every year now, but this year everything was quite different. It started with…
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…
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…
In England, everything is permitted that is not expressly prohibited. In Germany, everything is forbidden that is not expressly permitted. And in Austria everything is allowed that is forbidden, because…
No matter what format my sketchbook has, I am always dissatisfied with it. Before I think about the right paper quality, I already despair about the ideal size. I can…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…