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 [...]

A piece of beautiful blue sky framed by some beech trees caught my attention, made me stop and do a gouache sketch. I really enjoy the beginning of these sketches when everything is a possibility and the colours can be dropped and splashed around. Buy this sketch as postcard on Zazzle

This is a quiet forest path, people rarely walk here. The birds were very active on this morning. Young woodpeckers made such a noise that I had to choose another place. I regret that I was not able to catch the vivid contrasts of light and shadows in and under the canopy of the trees. [...]

Buy this sketch as postcard on Zazzle Spring and spring landscapes are a big temptation and a source of frustration for painters…trouble is spring foliage does drive people to tears! Unless you do not care and just love to dabble happily with your colours as I did on this beautiful sunny morning in the woods. [...]

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, [...]

In this quick gouache sketch I noticed some of the common mistakes that can occur in the depiction of trees.It is worth while to watch out how the branches of trees cross or meet. In this case I have circled some of the less favourable spots. Some of the branches of the smaller tree connect [...]

-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 [...]

Yesterday the rainy weather with thunderstorms ceased, a chance for another small gouache sketch of distant trees and a forested mountain. Everything is still very green, but autumn is already in the air. Crows gather in groups and strutt across the meadows and empty fields.

The strong contrast between black lines and white paper can be a challenge for the human eye. When I looked at this simple ink sketch of an apple tree orchard, I noticed that I had difficulties to see the drawing as a whole. As soon as the eye fixates a detail some other lines at [...]