Prints are in ...

 In the run-up to the holidays I have had some of my drawings printed. Most interesting to Urban Sketchers would be the selection of drawings made throughout Germany  I am flipping through here. Quirky as I love it the primary language is Irish. Selling these A4 calendars for 10 € - you´d have to catch me on a session or in the pub as I am not going to bother with mailing thes (exceeds costs + only leads to trouble, hassle, damaged or missing shippings etc. that far outstrip the contents values).

Some fellow artists seem to be surprised that I am also not too bad at characters (which sort of was what me lead to drawing in the first place and was a huge part of my illustration lecturing position). As a lover of irish music I created a set of characters to toggle and swap about in customized session announcements that I now had printed on greeting cards (A6, set of 10 for 11 € ) 

As stated: catch me at a session or come to the little Christmas market in the Lír on Dec 14th if you fancy any.

City Trips from Boltenhagen: Lübeck and Wismar

 While treatment kicked in and mobilized me, while still having to be very careful with the sternum so it may grow together properly the Saturdays without treatments were perfect occasions to visit and sketch the nearby trade ports of Wismar and Lübeck.

Picturesque timber-frame building near the warf on the edge of the old town of Wismar. Only got one drawing in that day as it poured down much of the day after this.

Lübeck: Holsten Gate

And Townhall Square.

And on another Saturday, the back of townhall ...

And The Northern Gate, near the Castle/fortress. 

Another thing that will stick to my mind are the flavours of marzipan and sea buckthorn uachtar reoite from Niederegger. 

Recuperating by the Baltic Sea -Boltenhagen

 The news had hit me in early March - the heart would not be easy to fix but I was in for getting it stopped, chest chopped open and new artificial/biologic valve with the required 3 wings replacing the old 2 winged that had caused the heart to "regurgitate 56% of blood per beat. Aorta needed some narrowing down, too. Need to state: It went as well as it possibly could even though I still am quite a bit from 100%, getting used to the medications. A month after surgery I went for recuperation by the baltic coast, to the charming resort Boltenhagen. AS I had no bypass my treatment soon allowed me to get out about and sketch. 

Beach access at the clinic, final point of the lovely promenade plateau that leads almost to the end of the bay.

Some sweet building at the center of the spa/resort.