Am Strand/At the beach

Mit Pinsel, Tinte und viel Sand in den Augen
With brush, ink and much sand in the eyes

Vetulonia

Wir waren eine Woche in Vetulonia (Südtoskana). Der Ort ist tatsächlich über 2500 Jahre alt und ist so schwer mit dem Auto zu erreichen, das sich dort kaum Touristen hinverirren. Trotzdem hat man immer eine Fangemeinde aus Kindern beim Zeichnen. Die Zeichnungen entstanden mit einem Pentel Brushpen und etwas Edding für die schwarzen Flächen.

We visited Vetulonia (south-tuscany) for one week. The village is in fact older than 2500 years! It's so difficult to reach even by car that you don't find any tourists there - anyhow you always have a fan-community of kids while drawing. I used a Pentel brushpen and an Edding for the black areas.

zurück und fleissig gewesen / back and been assiduous

Wunderschöner Urlaub in der Toskana, seeehr heiss und vieeel Kultur (und gutes Essen). Haufenweise Zeichnungen gemacht, hier die Ersten (Massa Marittima, San Gimignano and Portoferraio/Elba).
Awesome holiday in the Tuscany, very hot and much culture (and good food). Made lots of drawings, here are the first (Massa Marittima, San Gimignano and Portoferraio/Elba).

Ferien! Vacancy!

Zwei Wochen der Toscana. Ich werde haufenweise altes Zeug zeichnen: Kirchen, Mauern, Plätze, Landschaften und Küsten. Wird bestimmt furchtbar kitschig ...
Two weeks tuscany. Hope to draw lots of old stuff: churches, walls, places, landscapes and coastlines. Sure it will become very kitschy ...

Da hab ich mir was vorgenommen ...

Ein paar Skizzen für ein neues Vorhaben. Mal sehen ...
Some sketches for a new intention. Let's see ...

Bääh

Tänzer & Künstler · Dancers & artists

Ein paar Skizzen für mein Projekt "angewandte Fröhlichkeit".

A few sketches for my project "applied happiness".

Yippeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee ...

Zoo Hannover

... überall Kinder und die Tiere halten nicht für 10 sek. still! Da muss man schnell sein - oder mann geht zu den Elefanten, die sind langsam genug:)
... childs everywhere and no animal keeps still for only 10 sec. at least! You must be fast - or you take the elefants, they are slowly enough:)

Kieswerk · gravel plant

Skizziert mit Fineliner an einem der Kiesteiche in Langenhagen, später in Ps koloriert · Sketched with a fineliner at one of the lakes in Langenhagen, colorized later in Ps.

Holiday sketches

... from Venecia and Vrsar. Not really new (but not really old), i just forgot to post them.

The hat

A flashy hat, a smile and long hair - all you need for a 60th illustration.

... was hat die Zeit aus uns gemacht...?

It's a caricature of the famous german rockstar and living legend Udo Lindenberg and above it's a line of his brandnew song (It means: "What did the time with us ...")
In the background you can see the also famous hotel Atlantic in Hamburg where he is living now for about 30 years.

(bro' Uwe helped a lot by the amendment of the draft - thanks therefor)

Bébel

I think the Frenchmen call their darling like this.

Digital paintings

Done without special reason (but training). Did i mention that i can't await my new and BIGGER wacom?

American football

I assume that i will never really understand this sport (and i hate the misuse of the word football), but the action is garanteed and the guys are looking sooo cool. Worth to draw them. So here are a few studies.

Steamers and engineers pt.2

Two more sketches of my confidential railway-projekt. Update: I added a colored version.

Steamers and engineers pt.1

I thought about color, but the pictures always lost depth when i started. Probably some pictures want to stay black and white ...
(and maybe i start a second try later)

Cherry blossom

Ok, it's a big knive for cutting some cherry blossoms and she doesn't look overly pleased. At first i wanted to splatter blood all around, but my wife tempered my murderous frenzy and inspired me in drawing something peaceful instead.

Phettberg

Please let me introduce Mr. Hermes Phettberg. He's an austrian talk show host and assistant vicar of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vienna. It's not really a caricature - he looks like this (I swear)!

Sketches from Italy/Croatia

Not new but i never show them before. I did them rather quickly and added the color later.
(Google Earth fans: the upper one is Malcesine, Lago di garda, the other one is the cathedral of Pag, island of Pag)

Criminal offence?

Seems that these two guys are about to do something criminal.

Japanese

I used a sketch i've done one year before but made it completely new. The headline is only a japanese type - i don't have any idea what i wrote there. I hope it's nothing indecent.

Stones the 3rd

Don't ask me why, but it seems that i like stones. It's oil on canvas, 120 x 40 cm (about 47 x 16 inches)

Remake

This was an elder sketch (from 06). I didn't like it so it disappeared in the depths of my harddrive. Today i colored it (in fact i tried a color theme) - now it looks better.

Ahoi
I didn't post too much the last months (sorry so far) but i have so much to do (my relaunched website for ex. and a few other projects). For this reason i show few older things. These ships are doodles from a trip to the sea i made last year. I always wanna show them so now is the time therefor.

Stones agin (70 x 60 cm)
Next try with oil, it works better and better. The following pictures i'll try something different than stones, but it's a very gratefull structure for painting. (stones never move)
I'm working hard on my new website, so i can't spend much time with my blog in the moment ...

Oil
I try painting with oil again. It's so totally different to acrylics! Hard for people who can't wait like me. And it stinks. Piuuuu. But it's fun. This is an abstraction of stones in Croatia i photographed last summer.

Roadblock
This picture is part of the serial of Roadcomics. I made it especially for my exhibition. It's printed on canvas in 150 x 60 cm (approx. 60 x 24 inches) and put on a stretcher with a depth of approx. 4 cm (1.5 inches). Looks great. I'll post some fotos the next days.


Thanx
to all the people who party with me on my vernissage, it was a wonderfull and exciting evening.

ENDLICH
Meine Vernissage
Am 24. November ab 20:00 Uhr
Die menagerie in Hannover zeigt Zeichnungen und Grafiken von mir. Ihr seid alle herzlich eingeladen.

FINALLY
My vernissage
November 24th, 8:00 pm
The Menagerie in Hanover shows drawings and graphics of mine. You're all welcome.

Asian warrior
It fits in my fictitious serial of the astonished people, in fact i drew it 'cause my wife didn't want to see Full metal Jacked with me.