Sketchtraveller

Marseille again

31.03.24 01.04.24Travel, Urban Sketching

I’m starting to come here almost as often as I do to Venice. It’s a bit easier now because AUA, when it flies, does so twice a week direct from…

A Visit To The Village-Museum Despite Rain

31.07.23 31.07.23Urban Sketching

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…

Divine Sounds in Toulouse

30.06.23 06.07.23Travel

When I first went to Marseille for the opera in 2019, I only had a vague idea of the city. This year, opera brought me to Toulouse for the first…

Karl Marx Court on Labour Day

02.05.23 02.05.23Urban Sketching

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…

Advent in Paris and with Mickey Mouse

22.12.22 22.12.22Travel

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…

And Marseille surprises again

14.10.22 01.04.24Travel, 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…

Torcello greets me every year

28.09.22 28.09.22Travel

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…

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.

A Sea of Lights in Hamburg’s Advent

09.12.21 12.12.21Travel

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…

My Eternal Dilemma With The Sketchbook

22.11.21 23.11.21Sketchbook and Paper, Tools and Materials

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…

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 01.04.24Travel, 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…