A typical November day, drizzling rain, moist air and a colossal grey sky with slowly moving clouds. I tried hard to capture those thin clouds that smoked from the wooded hill named “Burgberg” in the background. I have been there on top to meet the “Schreckstein” which translates to “the stone that scares you”. And [...]

My latest entry in the old style landscape drawing book consists of only two types of elements: circular and linear marks, vertical or horizontal.I started in the upper right corner and made my way to the left and downwards from there.

I did a bit of an investment and bought the 48 color neopastel set by Caran d’Ache, after I had tried the smaller one. An altered art book, overpainted with thinned oil color will suit me as support for a series of oil pastel sketches I want to do this year. Drawing with oil pastels [...]

Buy this sketch as postcard After half an hours walk in the woods I noticed that I had forgotten to fill my water bottle (500 ml). So I had to take a little detour through the thicket to reach an artificial fish breeding pond. from there I made my way to the edge of the [...]

Buy this sketch as postcard on Zazzle I had made a mental note of this place on one of my recent excursions through the thickets. A remote place away from the walkers highway. Only the farmers are around on the fields with their spraying machines, but I got this one done before I had to [...]

Buy this sketch as postcard on Zazzle Finally spring is coming. First only the larch trees showed some fresh green, but in the last couple of days the grass is growing greener and the leaves of hornbeam become visible. The birds concert gets more and more polyphonic. A new spring season is at the doorstep, [...]

-Buy this sketch as card on Zazzle- This one was meant to be part of the postcard exchange “Postcard from my walk”, but I managed to ruin it by impatience. Instead to wait until the Oberförster landscape had dried I needed to apply a nice layer of thinned acrylic varnish on top which ruined it [...]

It amazes me how many hunting perches we have in the woods over here. No matter where you can see a hunting perch every 300 meters or so, not to speak of those ruins that lie around decaying slowly.  This one obviously has been rebuilt.  The place around was made up almost like a workshop. [...]

First snow came these days and changed the scenery quite a bit. No wild boars today, the battue yesterday with many guns sounding probably chased them away for some time. There were only faint cracks in the twigs and the knocks of the nuthatchs to hear. The fairly quickly changing play light and shadows kept [...]

I picked up the big gouache sketchbook today to continue with the forest diary I had not touched since March. There was this total November stillness in the woods that I like so much. Even the jays made no sound and flew away without scolding while walked through the rustling leaves. I love the first [...]