Beginning of October last year I took a little commission work. A person who had grown up in a nearby rural village named Illingen and later emigrated into the mediterranean asked me whether I could do some pen drawings of her home place for her. I liked the idea, the place is close by and [...]

This tree drawing by Armin Mersmann made my jaws drop … really. Here is the link to the website with more amazing graphite drawings. share: Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Share with Stumblers Subscribe to the comments on this post Print for later Tell a friend

A friendly reader mailed me two incredible text quotes, one from Sartre and one from Vaclav Havel, which I want to post here. From Nausea by Sartre “So I was in the park just now. The roots of the chestnut tree were sunk in the ground just under my bench. I couldn’t remember it was [...]

Some time ago I joined Fine Art America as Print on Demand outlet for high quality prints. The qualities of the professional scans (full size scan with drum scanner at 300 dpi) I order each year of several selected monotype prints come to great effect on the website of Fine Art America. Their latest addition [...]

Open publication – Free publishing – More art The local bookstore has proven indispensable one more time. I found one copy of “Oak,one tree,three years,50 paintings” by the British painter Stephen Taylor lying on top of a pile of art books as if it was left there with purpose to be found by the right [...]

Buy this sketch as postcard on Zazzle At the end of October and beginning of November the colors of autumn seem to peak in our forest and gardens here. I was on the way into the woods but decided to stay on a meadow with some fruit trees and an old garden shack near the [...]

Kellerklub from flori kurzum on Vimeo. Kurzum is the greatest up and coming cross fusion acid trash metal gig or anything similar giantic. share: Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Share with Stumblers Subscribe to the comments on this post Print for later Tell a friend

A couple of days ago I went to the same place I started the forest diary sketchbook on a grey afternoon in January 2009. I started with a humble sketch in ink, black and white,which still reminds me of those insecure days when the financial crisis hit. Now at beginning of autumn 2011 the scenery [...]

Buy this sketch as postcard on Zazzle This sketch was done in two sessions starting as usual from the back and painting/sketching towards the foreground. Each state of the sketch could be seen as a kind of under painting for the next stage. The sequence of images below documents some of the intermediate states of [...]

Buy this sketch as postcard on Zazzle There are windy days, the wind howls up in the trees. I have walked to the very edge of the village district. Looking through the trees I can see some orchards down hill and in the far distance the next bigger city in front of hazy blue background [...]