Summer sketching in Berlin

 Out on my own, these days

Bodemuseum

Neue NationalGallerie

Märkisches Museum Backside

Leipzig again

 AS I was invited to a company event in Leipzig (Mahler Concert) I spent a part of the day before sketching the city's old townhall.

Altes Rathaus Leipzig 

Visiting Munich for Paddy's Day

 The Parade will always be a huge affair in Munich. Not Octoberfest mind you - St.Patrick´s Day. Almost nice Christas, packed with music and festivities friends from near and far convene, making it the perfect occasion to see everyone again and sketch my favourite subject again ... in wide angle again.

Irish Breakfast in Kilian's

Back from Ireland

 After too many left over holidays due to my thwarted plans the previous year and being so incapacitated I treated myself to a trip to Ireland. Nearly 5 yearsince the big group trip. Lovely times with Diane and Eamonn. Cold though, so mostly indoor sketching

Taaffe's, Gaway

Monroe's, Galway

The Crane, Galway

The Cobblestone, Dublin

Mickey Finn's, Wicklow

USK Dortmund on a limb

 To be sure - the malady in my shoulder was not solved yet and I couldn´t raise my arm too high. So observational drawing was a bit awkward. Still - did attend the national Urban Sketchers moot, nevertheless, slower and a tad impaired but glad to be alive and reunite with so many fellow artists. Matching my workshops, here are two 360° panoramas of the city center ...

... a lost charming church ...

.... and some brave steampunk folks that did an amazing job modelling for us.

Great organisation!!!

Ooopsie - after the tumor

 So, I was heading for my dearest cousin´s birthday party (well first staying at my parents'  and driving up to Verden from there) ...

... and then I was out. Taken straught to hospital the diagnosis of a braintumor was a bit of a shock. Meningeoma grew larg unnoticed and knocked me out with an epileptic fit right in the S-bahn to central station. Few days later it was taken out and I was running around with a bandage covering the zipper closing up my skull, not two days later makig this sketch in the neighbouring palace gardens, meeting a lovely elderly couple from England, sketching in their journals as well. 

Belvedere, Park Charlottenburg

Was awkward sketching. Obviously relieved that I had come through with my brain undamaged alltogether I still had dislodged my right shoulder and am hardly able to raise my right arm (which might not be too bad a feat - as krauts go!).

Orangery Park Sanssouci

 Berlin sketchers meeting in Potsdam to draw the greenhouse in park Sanssouci there. Thought I´d give it another go WITH them. Scorching hot, ran for cover and shade after finishing.