Eisblumen

Some very wintery temperatures here: -11°C (-15°C at night). Maybe the frost patterns on my kitchen window are a new motive to draw...

drawings by Camila Leon

Just found this picture of Camila Leon drawing. Yes, I want to do this too!

Seen on www.booooooom.com

Happy 2012!

Irish Jam Session

Finally some fun things after too much work. It's more than 5 years now since I've last been to the Irish Jam Session in the Alte Schmitte in Steffisburg (which is a shoe shop, bistro and event place all in one). Again it was pure joy and happiness to listen to all this great musicians, who come spontaneously together to play and sing irish songs. I hope it won't be another 5 years till I'll be there the next time.

winter

Yesterday it slowly started snowing - after some wintery storms the days before. This is what I see from my kitchen's window.

grass

So, some grass... This should have been a contribution to a drawing magazine, but in the end I found it very boring. And it didn't look nice when printed. I did not have the right paper. And then I was running out of time. Oh.

sketchgroup drawing games

A lot of fun we had yesterday night, producing surrealist-like drawings. Simple game, exciting results! (The game: Fold a piece of paper into half, draw something, mark the subsequent lines on the other half of the sheet, then pass it on. The next person completes the drawing by using the marked lines from the former one without knowing whats on the other half of the paper.)

3D street art

Since my blog is also some sort of a diary and digital notebook, I need to post this collection of 3D street art. Amazing and perfectly executed. The picture above is one of my favourite.

autumn in Basel

Three pictures I recently took... The colourful leaves are stunning at the moment, the yellow ones are my favourites I think, although I usually prefer red. The rising sun reflecting in the glass facade on the Basel Messe tower this morning looked amazing too. Getting up early also has it's good sides. I wonder who else has as well noticed this short glimpse of beauty. A lot of people just stare at their smartphones when on a bus or train.
The Ferris Wheel is one big romantic attraction at the traditional autumn fair.

sketchgroup

Since a while I am in a new sketchgroup here in Bern. We meet twice a month in different places - and already the sheer regularity of this really motivates me do more sketchbook work, more drawing and more whatever. :)
This week we watched hand- and volleyballers exercising, which was really hard to draw. They never stood still, never kept a position, but still it was fun. My sketches became smaller and smaller, so I could leave out details and catch the movements better.