Waldfriedhof

Waldfriedhof, SH

On today's fine public holiday I took my new square watercolor block, sat by the City Nursery facing the entrance to the Forest Cemetery and splashed my watercolors happily all over the page. A few people walked by, enjoying the multitude of colorful flowers after visiting their late relatives or friends. I had hoped for sunshine but the sky was overcast, leaving me with hardly any directional shadows.

I had "Die Drei Fragezeichen" for company :-)

Guardi artistico Torchon, 300g/sqm
Winsor&Newton Artists watercolors
daVinci Travel brush

Tree tales

Kristen of www.sleeplessbeekeeper.com was so kind to allow me to use her daughter's photo as a reference.

Meet the tree fairy, who listens to the woes and tales of one of the Old Ones.

It's actually a more elaborate sketch in my sketchbook, 9.5 x 12 cm /3.7 x 4.7 inches

I tweaked the colors just a bit because they were a bit too much on the green side.

I used two brushes, a Pentel water brush and some old round brush that I never use because it does not have a point and loses hair all the time. Surprisingly though, it is able to hold a lot of pigment and water.

Oatmeal breakfast

I am on holiday!

That means I've got a looot of time in the morning to sketch my breakfast while waiting for it to cool down 😋 Oh I am enjoying this so much!!!

...and I was sketching in my triad sketchbook, too, with just three colors:

French Ultramarine, Alizarin Crimson, Aureolin Yellow.

Horse chestnuts

Autumn is here! 

Or fall, depending from where you're from.

Rosskastanien
Der Herbst ist da!


Winsor & Newton Artists' Colours
Schoellershammer watercolour paper 250g/m²

C'an Picafort

Just back from holidays.
Mallorca is warm, sunny and the beach in the north I was at was rather huge, considering the other beaches of the island.
However, for various reasons, Mallorca is best enjoyed for one week - no longer.

Before I left, I bought a brand spanking new palette of Winsor and Newton Artist's Water Colour half pans and a size 10 daVinci travel brush. It was quite expensive, all in all, but the difference in quality is so obvious when painting, it was worth it.
I think if you buy something expensive but then make very good use of it, it is money well invested.

I am still fiddling around with finding the right sketchbook size for on location watercolor sketching, but for now the Moleskine Large Watercolor (A5) sketchbook best fits my needs.
How do I know? I ran out of pages.
Next time I should just pack an single empty A5 sketchbook instead of the A4, A5 and A6.

First tryout of my new palette at the beach.

Girls playing cards at the bar tables

This woman spent forever to find out which position is best for reading a thick paperback.
I don't think she found out, but she made for a very life-drawing-class-like subject,
moving every 5 minutes, if not more often.

Balcony view

Balcony view on the one day it was raining a lot.

View from the bar

People at the pool

Holiday time is reading time! I love my Kindle 3G Keyboard.

Beach of C'an Picafort. On some days, the sea is so still, you can walk through the water and see everything.
On this day, the sea was a mix of water and sand. 

Beach of C'an Picafort again. Squeezing out the last lines of my edding 1800 profipen 0.1.
I have ordered Pigma Microns now to try out. They are hard to come by in my part of the world. 

Hotel room. 

View down from the balcony.

Trying to pass time while it was raining outside.

The pool palm tree.

Ze Germans at the beach.

Watching the Reading vs Tottenham Hotspur match at a British bar. 

People at the travel agent's and the hotel lobby. Very shiny floor tiles.

Obligatory in-flight sketch with a Rotring Tikky Graphic 0.3. I prefer 0.1 for A5 formats.

Just a wee thank you

Just a wee thank you to all that visited my blog last month. I have, since June 2009, never hit the 1000-views mark, but in March 2012 it went just above 1660 views for some reason ☺.

Ein kleines Dankeschön an alle, die letzten Monat meinen Blog besucht haben. Seit Oktober 2009 habe ich nie die 1000 Seitenaufrufe pro Monat erreicht, aber im März 2012 waren es aus irgendeinem Grund knapp über 1660 Seitenaufrufe ☺.

via Julie Desmeules at Blue Cupcake

Christmas card 2011

"You think Santa is going to fit through there?"

Order your own copy of this card here.

Finished!

WIP: Christmas card 2011

Work in Progress: Christmas card

In Arbeit: Weihnachtskarte

This time the format is a little bigger compared to my most recent paintings, and I am using Ecolines (liquid watercolor) instead of watercolor pans. I was not sure if this painting was going to get anywhere when I started it but now it does not look so bad. I just need to figure out how I'll do the kids' clothes, the floor, and the carpet.

Dieses Mal ist das Format etwas grösser - verglichen mit meinen neuesten Bildern - und ich benutze Ecolines (flüssige Aquarellfarbe) anstatt der üblichen Aquarellnäpfchen. Ich war mir nicht sicher, ob aus diesem Bild etwas werden würde, als ich anfing, aber jetzt sieht es nicht so schlecht aus. Ich muss jetzt noch herausfinden, wie ich die Kleidung der Kinder, den Fussboden und den Teppich am Besten malen sollte.

Umbrella

Pilze

I really don't like painting leaves.

Ich mag es wirklich nicht, Blätter zu malen.

Belly Dancer

.. because I promised Patry her own painting.

Bergkirche

I know a handful of couples who got married at that church.
It's my first time doing the whole plein air thing with my A4 watercolor sketchbook. Using a whole page spread though takes too much time, especially if your are sitting in direct sunlight. By the time you are done, you are sweating and dehydrated.

IF: Journey

Illustration Friday: Journey

Tree with fairy

For Alana.



Baum mit Fee
Für Alana.

Birthday

:o)

12.01.2011

also/auch EDM#150: Draw a candle / Zeichne eine Kerze

EDM#303: Frozen

#303 - Gefroren

Watercolour warm-up

Aufwärmübungen mit Aquarellfarbe




I love my Watercolour Moleskine... :-) Only a few pages left and Christmas is coming up *hinthinthint*

Ich liebe mein Aquarell-Moleskine... :-) Nur noch ein paar Seiten übrig und Weihnachten steht auch schon bald vor der Tür *WinkMitDemZaunpfahl*

bookdepository
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Testing the water

Wasser prüfen



This is not an EDM drawing challenge to be exact but it fits this theme: #77 - Draw something cold or cool.
Es ist nicht wirklich eine EDM Challenge um genau zu sein aber es passt zu diesem Thema: #77 - Zeichne etwas Kaltes oder Kühles.

Jana