Doodling to Become Zen

  I´m sure many of you did feel just as stressed out over the last holidays as I did. Which if you think of it, is ridiculous really, we should feel happy and excited, like we did when we we´re kids. I mean – it´s the holidays, right? So, to help me get into a

Poker Face

A couple of months ago, I sent my dear friend and author Mary Cathleen Clark an email attached with one of my drawings and asked her, if she would like to write something that would go well with it. And she came up with this one hell of an awesome poem! I didn’t post our combined

Looking forward

It’s 2017! Let’s look forward to new horizons, possibilities, friends and more art! 🙂 My drawing is inspired by a print of an etching by James Whistler, “Count Burckhardt” (publ. 1862).  His impressive use of the chiaroscuro is very likely based on his studies of a collection consisting of Rembrandt prints, who, like Caravaggio, was

Finding “Fairy”

    About two weeks ago my dear friend Patty asked me if I would like to contribute to a blog post about fairies that was going to show up on her new blog The Strix Being very partial to fairies I was determined to give it a try, even with my eye not being

The Wise Age

  I´m very proud to present another collaboration that combines the wonderful words of my dear friend and writer Syeda with one of my drawings! 🙂     The Wise Age Standing in the alley I watch them play around Little kids whom I saw Puking in their mother’s arms. I watch the little hands

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

A Chinese Character

  This new portrait study gives you a hint as to where I want to travel to someday 😉 I´ve always been fascinated by Asia, especially China and Japan and remember with startling clarity giving impressions of a japanese dancer before family members when I was very young. In order to do so, I borrowed

Animal Quick Sketching

  The summer holidays started this week and the whole family went to the Berlin Zoo to celebrate! 🙂 We had lots of fun, fantastic weather and stuffed ourselves with delicious ice cream! It was also a little premiere for me, as I tried myself the first time on animal quick sketching. It came as

A Bashful Beauty

  I sketched this portrait with Audrey Hepburn in mind, an amazing actress I´ve always admired very much, not only for her stunning and elf-like beauty but for her tremendous skills as a dancer and actress. I freely admit that this drawing does not really look like her…I will have to practice more to get

A Papuan Portrait

  I´m back on track with my project about learning how to draw faces. After having practiced drawing the individual features like eyes, noses, ears and mouths seperately, the next step is to combine those features now! For this I use a couple of books from which to draw different faces. The drawing above shows