The Picture Behind the Picture

    You might have wondered why my drawing for the joined blog post “Fantasy” (The Strix) that I´ve just reblogged, shows the word “Fantasy” in its not so different German spelling “Fantasie”. That´s because there´s a picture behind the picture. 😉 When I was in school – which is a terrifyingly long time ago

Fallen Tree

    Although this tree, stripped entirely of its bark, no longer lies across the road that you can glimpse in the upper left corner, it reminded me on this poem by Robert Frost.   On a Tree Fallen Across the Road   The Tree the tempest with a crash of wood Throws down in

Sepia Spell – Frowning Lion

    This beautiful carved lion just caught my eye and begged me to take a picture of him… of course I was only too eager to fulfill his wish 😉   Wishing you all a very beautiful and lovely week! xxx

Profiling

“Do you know this man???”   No, I haven´t changed my profession and joined the profiling specialists of the FBI, I merely am practicing the art of drawing profiles now. 😉 As it happens it´s not as easy as I first thought. It´s just as equally important to get all the proportions right as with

Sepia Spell – Flight of Stairs

  This is one of the four entrances to the park I´ve introduced you to last week. The Koernerpark is situated below street level, so you have to walk down these beautiful flight of stairs to get to the garden area. Somehow this does always make me feel like a movie star 😉   Also,

Birds of a Feather (inspired painting)

Sometimes when I read a story or a poem, images just pop up into my head and fill me with the wish to fix them on paper or a canvas. This is what happened when I read this truly magnificent and original short story “Birds of a Feather” by my dear friend Mary Cathleen Clark.

Ghostly Ruins

  I started this painting months ago and let it lying around in order to do other things instead. Sometimes it is like that with a painting. It kind of needs time to incubate. Today however I finally finished it, my Ghostly Ruins! Hope you like it!

Sepia Sunday – Come Fly With Me

  … although I very much doubt that this particular aircraft will take off any time soon since its propellers have been removed. 😉 It´s one of several american transport aircrafts still hanging around the “Tempelhofer Feld”, a shutdown airport right in the middle of Berlin that´s now mainly used as a recreation park. To

Ghostly Image – Love

    My latest ghostly image “Love” has been inspired by a wonderful short story called “A Promise of Paradise” which I came across this highly fascinating blog “Cakeordeathsite” – please visit it! I find the story absolutely captivating and very intriguingly written. It´s lure reminded me of the works by Kafka and Stephen King.

Can I give you a hand? (Or 2, or 3,…)

Did you know that the skeleton of an average human hand consists of 27 bones? That´s why among other things it´s so very hard to mend them sometimes when broken.   Most people think, that drawing a face is difficult (which done properly surely is). But actually it´s even harder to draw a human hand.