Magpie / Elstern

It doesn’t happen very often that there is an idea for a sketch or a painting and I start to develop it immediately. Most of the time I tell myself to do the things on my to-do-list first. But not today. I was in the mood to be gentle to myself and allowed me to…

Bigger ones / Sperlinge in groß

These are big sparrows compared to the other ones, about 30 x 40 cm. Smaller sketches are a lot easier it seems:-) Spatzen in groß, quasi ein richtiges Bild in 30 x 40 cm. Wobei mir zugegeben die kleinen lockeren Skizzen leichter fallen:-)

more sparrows / Spatzen

Some more sparrows. Now at least my appartment is full of them! And it is fun to play around with brusho colours and ink and watercolour to see what works best. Noch mehr Spatzen sind entstanden. Es macht aber auch wirklich Spaß, an einem Thema auszuprobieren, was am besten funktioniert… Brusho-Farben, Tinte, Aquarell… alles zusammen…:-)

Sparrows / Sperlinge

When I was a kid there were many sparrows everywhere. In the parks, near a cafe or a playground. Nowadays they are hard to find and while I was wondering why I started doodling around. And ended up -surprise!- with some mixed media sparrows! Irgendwie ist mir aufgefallen, dass es im Gegensatz zu früher kaum…

Poinsettia / Weihnachtsstern

Over the last years there was no need to buy a poinsettia because I used to save them out of  a colleagues‘ bin. This year my dear colleague retired and I had to buy me a model for sketching. So here is a little and very red sketch and yes it’s from this year and…