Peter Pen - periodically posted pictures

| Lost in Economics |

2010-09-27T17:54:00.005+02:00

Well, now, for updates click here please.

| Flowerpower in Your Head |

2010-03-17T14:43:00.003+01:00

13 degrees Celsius - yeah!

| No funky rhythm in this blog |

2010-03-13T15:41:00.009+01:00

... pausing too long this "blog" needs a makeover. Meanwhile I found out about this page: Though I am not that much into DJ'ing anymore, but I somehow came across this page and listened to Dam-Funk. Somewhat nice, but even better is PS22's Lisztomania

| Been a while |

2010-03-08T21:32:00.005+01:00

Took some time ... about as long as I have been waiting to see this madeover Japanese movie subtitled and 3:15 hours long - right now - the directors cut. No commercials, no nothing.

Thanks ARTE celebrating Akira Kurosawas 100th birthday

______________________________

七人の侍

Shichinin no samurai

Sieben Samurai

Seven Samurai

| Sketchcrawl #25 Result from Hamburg |

2009-12-13T16:03:00.000+01:00

| Tea Time |

2009-11-20T18:37:00.008+01:00

Ready for the evening and looking forward to SCrawling.

| Music to get through the week's last day |

2009-10-16T11:53:00.001+02:00

I found this to be a nice idea to share mixes only - no breakdowns while listening is another goody, coming along with this page-

| Sketchcrawl #25 in Hamburg |

2009-10-13T09:43:00.003+02:00

Now, just to have things going. This is where we might talk about place and time to sketch. As we all learned in our English lesson way back at school: Place before time ...

| I had to try this |

2009-09-27T11:10:00.002+02:00

SketchCrawl #25 - Five years of SCrawling

2009-09-23T00:33:00.007+02:00

Just a short note: Nov 21st, 2009 is the date to be around for the next SCrawl.

After five years the 25th. Are you in? Well you might want to join Enrico and us here. T.

... denn wir leben im Zeichen der Ebene und des Himmels.

2009-08-25T17:32:00.005+02:00

... Rilke said, talking about Worpswede ("... because we live under the sign of the plane and the sky."

And this seemed to be the exhibition's and museum's motto in .. on the isle Föhr. Look at these pictures. No Photshopediting just painted more than one hundred years ago. Btw: I really like the hanging. 10.000 visitors whithin the first 14 days after the grand royal opening.

Read the full article on the opening here.

| Colourmanagement |

2009-07-28T10:44:00.000+02:00

| Raumfahrer | Spacedriver |

2009-07-21T14:39:00.001+02:00

-- funny enough we call astronauts, "spacedrivers", too. I can drive a car, but can I drive space? That language sometimes drives me crazy.

| Stumblin' on Tumblr |

2009-06-06T23:36:00.003+02:00

You can find me on tumblr, too.

| A Real Gadgetgirl |

2009-06-05T18:23:00.008+02:00

I found the original photo in gadgetgirl's flick-set. Here kids are wonderful!

I don't really understand, why I had to trick a little and post this picture on my tumblr first, to have it move ... magic.

Maybe next time, she is rolling with here eyes ;-)

| UP-Date |

2009-05-29T09:51:00.006+02:00

Found this multimedia-feature on UP at the NYTimes giving some visual and oral insights on first drawings and characters evolving (step-by-step) not as easy every time.

See another first sketch Enrico did, too.

Click on screenshot to see details and on links to listen and see more.

| Mi Domando |

2009-05-24T09:39:00.004+02:00

The perfect song to start in this sunny day.

I know, Adriano Celentano may seem akward for this, but just give it try.

Such a funny man. Just follow the b/w-videos in that section and follow him back to his roots in San Remo, see him making jokes in "Rockpolitick" with Benigni and so on. No, I am not his biggest fan. He just a wonderful character to draw.

Instead of looking into a wiki you might want to follow some of his steps in this article.

And to complete the rambling: If you are in the mood to fell Italian, be Italian. (via Enrico).

And if you think Gipi is the only current wonderful Italian artist you might want to take a look here at the "Animals", too.

"60th anniversary of the Federal Republic of Germany yesterday and you keep talking of Italy all the time!" - "Well, you know, Goethe went there, too." - "Oh, gee, leave me alone with that ..." - "And Heine went to France!" - "Now, that's it ..."

| The Early Bird Catches the Worm |

2009-05-20T20:05:00.005+02:00

Die ARD startete ja mal ganz früh mit dem Liveticker ... für alle, die es weder im TV sehen noch den Kommentar dort ertragen können: Der WDR bietet via WDR-Event für solche Anlässe gerne durch Gebühren und nicht Werbung finanzierte Liveberichterstattungen im Livestream (startet bei Klick direkt) an.

Ansonsten ist auch der 11Freunde-Ticker wieder bereits gut in Gang gekommen und wird dort auch wohl abgespeichert bleiben. Für alle Freunde des guten Textes, sind hier alle HSV-SVW-Ticker der letzten Wochen nachzulesen.

So, nur noch knapp eine halbe Stunde. Ich bin gespannt ob Bildblog & Co. im Nachhinein enthüllen, dass der Hellseherhase von der Boulevard-Zeitung getürkt war ... a propos Türkei: "Auf geht's Werder, kämpfen und siegen!"

UPDATE 23:16 Uhr: Viel mehr hat man dann auf dem ARD-Ticker auch nicht im Laufe des Spiels ergänzen müssen.

| Sternekoch || Five-Star Chef |

2009-05-19T21:49:00.008+02:00

This one is saying: "... nothing left to cook? I thought you'd be a five-star chef!?"

Dieser ist noch nicht so ganz ausgereift. Seltsame Sprechblase, Bildausschnitt und Details, daher nur fotografiert und nicht gescannt. Oberthema: Himmelfahrt - ist ja Donnerstag und machen die Astronauten ja täglich. Ist also nichts Besonderes.

Kann man ganz schlecht übersetzen ... really hard to translate. I just took a photo and didn't scan it, as there are some ... many things to be done better.

Talking about better: I am on a trip to copy great masters of art, to learn from. So I stumbled upon this wonderful colleague again. Go ahead and find out about him on your own.

UPDATE: Crawling through the net back again, I found that Sven Knoch, had an idea on a cook, working with stars, too - done May 27, 2009.

| Paul Flora |

2009-05-17T23:54:00.010+02:00

How could I forget about it. Paul Flora died on Friday, May 15. I was shocked that day, when I got told about it.

I stumbled on the date again visiting Sven K.'s blog (daily ivy).

I quickly took out one of his books I bought a couple of years ago. This one is from 1975 and can't be purchased other than second hand.

The steam-ship, as I remember, has been reprinted in one of my first primary school books, too.

And one of my first birds I drew had a lot in common with birds, Paul Flora drew, though I didn't really know him at that age - so he must have left a big impression one me.

Besides his dark pictures I have always been impressed by his playful compositions - for instance this tree and a meadow just made of single letters. And as handwritten lettering is kind of modern, you might want to take a look at Flora's play with letters, too.

UPDATE: Sir Beck linked to a nice Austrian page on Paul Flora, showing some pictures and videos.

| Pennography |

2009-05-17T13:16:00.005+02:00

Got a parcel from Japan yesterday. Not only my pens arrived packed safely in time, nope, Marty even added some of his numbered collectibles. Thank you, Marty San.

Where to get these? Here!

| A dream comes true |

2009-05-14T15:34:00.011+02:00

Up made it to the front newspages earlier, but now hit the real frontpage of Germany's most selling daily quality newspaper. Certainly pushed by the big studios to be shown - as other big shots - on festivals in Europe, it nonetheless is a big surprise to have it upfront and a review inside ;-)

Hello to Enrico and Ronnie overseas! Good luck with your book, too, Ronnie!

Even left-winged weekly news-mag "Freitag" starts on their blog with it today ;-)

| Welt als Wille und Vorstellung |

2009-05-11T21:35:00.003+02:00

| Photoshop doesn't have to be cold |

2009-04-29T21:13:00.005+02:00

Alex Noriega did a great describing video on this picture - in which he combined PS and wonderful textures and shading techniques here.

And shows the result at flickr too.

Might be worth sharing.

linked

| ... oh Tutor, my Tutor! |

2009-04-04T18:27:00.000+02:00

Mark Chong gives live and recorded lessons on drawing --- meanwhile they are bit longer than ten minutes, but you really learn splendid basics and keep some eye openers right away.

Click here, enjoy and donate.

| Happy birthday ... |

2009-04-01T18:18:00.003+02:00

... dear bookstore!!

Come all and celebrate - my favorite place to buy my current readings .. which I will show from now on. Once in a while.

UPDATE:

Schanzenfest is set to be on July 4, 2009. Follow the link and see the inviting video, too.

A peaceful happening everyone.

| Up and away to Cannes |

2009-03-20T22:27:00.005+01:00

Finally, with trailer after trailer, "UP" made it to open in Cannes - and I'll have to wait until September to see it opening in our cinemas. Gee ...

(top news in Germany's most selling daily newspaper)

| The (dancing) brother I never had |

2009-03-15T19:46:00.001+01:00

The Top (Music Video) from Francis and the Lights on Vimeo.

| Video killed the photography star |

2009-03-15T16:18:00.003+01:00

Done Eastern - long time ago at Farge/Weser ...

| Been a while |

2009-03-02T08:59:00.005+01:00

If you'd like to see more - click here, to see a steadily growing portfolio.

| Freischwimmer |

2008-11-26T22:03:00.002+01:00

| Sketchcrawl # 21 |

2008-11-20T16:37:00.003+01:00

... everyone set for the next?

Please check out the forums, to meet for the WinterCrawl. It will be sunny, dry and surprisingly warm ...

... btw: this head is E.'s head and copyright :-)

| Copy and Paste ... Paint |

2008-10-30T23:26:00.004+01:00

Copy and paint after the biggest masters to learn from them --- so did I, using one simple character of one of Gipi's covers (Appunti per una storia di guerra).

| Sketchcrawl # 20 | Results |

2008-10-26T14:40:00.011+01:00

-- what a splendid day out. For details and exclusive report on my SCrawl click here. And for the outstanding crowd of the worldwide Crawlers please go here.

UPDATE

"The rest of the world was sketching away too, don’t miss the ton of different locales posting their drawings at the SketchCrawl forums!!! Hamburg, Florence, Detroit, Tokyo, Berlin, Milan, Seattle, Honolulu, Bangkok, Toronto, Brisbane, Sapporo, Israel, Melbourne, Rome, Copenhagen, Vienna, Brussels, Barcelona, Portland, Gustavsberg (Sweden) and more. What an amazing turn out!!! The world brought together by paper and pencil … Thank you all for participating and for making this the most successful drawing marathon ever ! Looking forward to the next one already … early January, date tbd."

by Enrico Casarosa

| nochmal || once again |

2008-10-22T14:45:00.009+02:00

I sent a thank-you-card after a visit at an academy for graphic designers.

We've been told, that "Once again / Do it again / ... " ought to be the sentence / the word which the students as well as the graduated will be about to hear most , ... SURPRISE ;)

| Sketchcrawl # 20 |

2008-10-19T23:55:00.005+02:00

Saturday OCTOBER 25th!

Mark your calendars and come by the forum to sketch in Hamburg or worldwide.

This is a big one, almost 4 years of SketchCrawling around the world!

There even are groups around in Berlin, Jena, Cologne and many more places around Europe, too.

Logo kindly used via Enrico Casarosa.

| How to develop an idea |

2008-10-16T13:58:00.008+02:00

So this is the way my brain "works"... better to be said: somehow flows, when in need of an idea for my niece's birthday card.

I have no clue, why I took the long way from my basic face, passing by a tower in the clouds, remembering a 18 year old picture of an lighthouse to say hello to a fish and then a birthday parcel as bait ... anyone in for a guess?

Rewards needed? A slightly coloured and signed print of this fishbowl ;)

| Du Sack |

2008-09-29T17:56:00.003+02:00

Last Friday a friend of mine and me went to have a small lunch after a long week of work. Having finished I went in to pay before we left. I invited him, which he didn't expect and caused him to call me a "nutsack" with a smile on his face ... which I translated into the real bag/sack you see on the picture. In fact you have to know, he really is one of a kind decent, Hanseatic and well brought up men, who'd never really use this word in public.

Well you never know ;)

UPDATE: I remember, that he also has been the one, who inspired me to this drawing, too. Hmmmmmm ....

www.flickr.com/photos/peter_pen/2860922100/

| Wenn Fische hupen könnten || If fish could honk |

2008-09-24T23:21:00.007+02:00

Fish is saying: "Hey, speed up folks!"

We had the chance to be invited by some of a kind and super-nice marketers at one of the biggest shots in the advertising business in Europe/Hamburg. Three handsome members took care of us. During their presentation a big old steamboat "blew a horn" -- mixing up the words the apprentice said "well that's some of the nice parts working directly on the habour-side, where the fish honk" instead of saying "where the ships honk " ... you'll get the mix, if you'd know that "Schiffe" (ships) is just next to "Fische" (fish) in German. Just exchange "SCH" by "F"

So I started to wonder, in which cases fish might want to honk ... someone else may make up a picture on the low pun "traffic jam" resp. "berry jam", seeing the fish-traffic-jam ... not to forget about the jam-session.

UPDATE See the follow-up here:

| Getting colder |

2008-09-20T12:22:00.006+02:00

September, Sunshine, Sweater -- what can I say more. No clouds and about 5 degrees Celsius at night already.

Wonderful daylight sets the houses and ships on fire when coming home from work riding my bike on along the harbor-side.

An air and a touch of sunstrokes alternating with the soft chilliness nourishing heart, soul and skin.

Please say hello to autumn, the day after tomorrow in Europe (22. September 2008 at 17:44 MESZ). Did anyone know they nail it down on hours and minutes? Though meteorologists welcomed autumn already on the first day of September.

| Wachstu(r)m | Growing Tower |

2008-09-07T14:14:00.005+02:00

A tower growing into the sky. "Wachstum" in English means "growth". "Wachsturm" with an encapsulated "r" means "growing tower". In this case a cachepot

Growth. A personal subject these days. Though it's the end of time to harvest nature's uprising treasures.

Sometimes growth needs a cut of growth. Otherwise your branches grow faster in length than strength.

Maybe I should draw a tree instead, as Ali Altschaffel did lately.

Carnets de Voyage / Streaming

2008-08-20T19:03:00.005+02:00

I just found out about this wonderful series on Arte (Franco-German-TV-Station). They are broadcasting nine 26 min long documentations on six (!!!) international illustrators who travel the world and draw and paint in their Carnets de Voyage / Travel Sketchbooks.

They follow the illustrators on their tours through Armenia, Namibia, Cap Verde and so on ... you see there sketchbooks .... and you see the sites they are on .... you see drawings faded into reality and back ... and moreover you see the people behind it ... the people they encounter!

Times to see: Another six days at 5:35 pm EST. If you are not wake: You can recapture all episodes here in French or here in German. If the links are broken just click on http://plus7.arte.tv and search for either "Carnets de yoyage" or "Reiseskizzen".

Enjoy!

From Dish-Washing to ...

2008-08-14T23:06:00.007+02:00

... the sub in the sink.

A story about underwater adventures ... starting in the kitchen, without setting it under water.

Did some .....

2008-07-25T00:19:00.004+02:00

.. dish-washing as a Dish.Jockey, but give me a week and I'll tell you more about it. Or three weeks ...

Sketchcrawl # 19, June 21st

2008-06-14T16:59:00.001+02:00

Mark your calendars ! The next international SketchCrawl day is set to Saturday June 21st.

Public Viewing - Rudelgucken

2008-06-13T10:23:00.001+02:00

Usually I do not like to promote radio stations - in this case I like to introduce a new German word, which shall replace the expression "public viewing", which in Germany we use for the possibility to watch football/soccer games open-air with thousands of fans.

In American or even British English it is connected to a public lying in state before a funeral ... now: "Rudelgucken" seems to be better ... the idea is, to have this word in the German dictionary "DUDEN".

So spread the word :)

Schwyz adé

2008-06-11T22:45:00.001+02:00

Facing

2008-06-07T23:47:00.006+02:00

click on pic to enlarge

This is what happens, if you get some new pens from Japan. Thank you Marty-San!

Daniel Egnéus

2008-06-04T18:41:00.006+02:00

.. how could I forget to post a link to one of my most favorite illustrators. See him on his site here and in an (Italian) video here.

Enjoy!

Like 'em or don't ...

2008-05-30T12:42:00.004+02:00

.. that's what happens, if you are not creating or scanning new works of your own: Other ones get 'creative'. See results above.

Better ideas to be seen in Berlin. Thanks to Ulrike!!!!!

click to enlarge

Warm and Cold

2008-05-15T11:33:00.006+02:00

It's been a wonderful warm and mild summerly since. So I picked up one of my newly comic books, which I was given as a present: Jiro Taniguchi's "Wanderer im Eis" (2004/11 - Toudo no Tabibito - The Ice Wanderer). Mainly winter settings of stories about men who live in, struggle with, learn from and cherish their surrounding pristine nature.

Well, as creativity and art lives from contrasts, this seems to be a good contrast to wonderful May, 2008 ;-)

For more information (language: German) see this Video made by the comic-affine cultural French-German TV-station "arte" here legally.

| Underworld | Überweltigt |

2008-05-01T21:46:00.006+02:00

The German word "überweltigt" came to my mind - literally meaning "overwhelmed". "Picturally" meaning being under the world, which Ali Altschaffel at flickr ment, when he suggested to call this sketch "underworld".

Early Art Influences

2008-04-21T23:32:00.006+02:00

You may call me a fool, but this is one of my favorite early days inspirations I saw twice a year, due to the fact there'd be two fun-fairs per year in my hometown (spring and fall/autumn)! They didn't change anything. This one is actually the brand new one!

Timeless!
Priceless!

Done by the only graphic designer in town.

Early Monopolists.

Isn't it cool?

| mmm | mini me monitor |

2008-04-13T13:45:00.006+02:00

Colour is the way forward - and this is my favorite duo, which I lately bought in a shop focussed on cool skaters and sprayers. Well, both of 'em are kind of cool, too, in their tonal range, I guess ... current reading is Seth's "It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken".
If you still do not know it, click on the link and peekaboo into some pages. If you get to read the first pages of this novel, you'll be lead into so soft and straight - you will not get out of it.
And the good the thing about the weakening Dollar: this wonderful book is kind of affordable, too!

| Sketchcrawl # 18 | Results |

2008-04-01T18:19:00.007+02:00

click on picture to read details ;-)

More to be seen here at our Sketchcrawl-Forum.

Sketchcrawl # 18

2008-03-25T22:16:00.000+01:00

.. well, that's all I have to post. You know the rest. If not, feel free to click on the picture below, or join us here right away. :-)

|| See you, won't be around blogland for 7 weeks || Tea will still be tea ... || THEbiG1 ||

2008-02-05T21:46:00.001+01:00

"... no matter in which receptacle it will be." Even that receptacle will burst or be leaking. The teapot might be broken and not a teapot any longer, but the tea will still be tea .. even if the carpet will be full of that tea.

A sentence I remembered from "Little Buddha" shown on TV a couple of days ago ... I will still be drawing the next days, the receptacle won't be the internet. And I won't look around here the next seven weeks either. I am off(-blog-line) till Easter-Sunday. The inspirational tea will be sipped but not from this cup of tea ;-)

"Electron Fast"

2008-02-03T13:20:00.000+01:00

THEbiG1 | TSCHILP - click on picture to see a set

Looking at my last post (let it flow) and finally being aware of all that carnival hype around me - yes, it took me a while, that there really is something like that going around ... nail it down, what you were about to write, dude ... well, I am thinking about the traditional fast, which one is going through; starting the end of carnival all the way to easter (Feb 7th till Mar 22nd) ... I'll go for walk and keep you updated. "Hm, no blogging .. or no blogging and no posting ... or no blogging but watching but not commenting ...?"

Read on the idea in an old Danny Gregory post - in the online-decades way back from 2004 ;-)

|| THEbiG1 || Let it flow ||

2008-02-02T19:04:00.000+01:00

click on picture to enlarge

Started this tiny one a couple of days ago. I really like the format 10x10 cm (3.94 by 3.94 inches). The first page can be seen below. The text written underneath the sketch says something like "Simply let float, yourself". Indeed, the original sentence's German grammar itself is kind of artificial ... if you click on the tiny one you'll be lead to a constantly growing flickr-set.

Sketchcrawl # 17

2008-01-20T01:09:00.000+01:00

for more crawl-details click on picture shown above

The weather turned out to be o.k. after heavy rain in the morning - as the weather is fine on any given Sketchcrawl ;-)

In the end, I didn't have the time to do a day-time-crawl. So I chose to do a MovieCrawl and had the chance to watch the 1985 released "A Passage to India" -- based upon E.M.Fosters novel -- on DVD.

So, these are some scenes taken from the very slow movie -- not as slow as one might believe though it was about 157 minutes long.

All the other ones can be seen here.

Archives: Weser at Farge

2008-01-11T22:40:00.000+01:00

Talking about Gipi and Pirati this archive's picture came back to my mind: The River Weser at viewing Farge on the other side. A small town where the ferry boat is landing. I sketch this scene over Easter 2007 -- and maybe the present temperature just brought back the memory of that windy and cold bike-ride I took when I painted this. ;-)

// Update //

Anyone who'd like to read an affectionately radio feature broadcasted yesterday (08-01-11) on Deutschlandradio Kultur about this region, please follows these links ...

Radio feature to read or listen --- A little universe of life and love on one of Europe's biggest rivere isles - Harriersand.

Thanks to:

New // Gipi // Pirati

2008-01-06T22:07:00.000+01:00

Long awaited and here are some of Gipi's latest pictures in a preview! Click on image to see some more and after two days allready about thirty-something comments ... enjoy.
Despiring as Enrico would say. ;-)

Sketchcrawl # 16 -- Dock 10

2007-12-30T14:13:00.000+01:00

click on pictures to enlarge

And to see some more Hamburg impressions you might want to watch 2007's Movie-Festival's trailer.

St. Claus has been a very good boy this year

2007-12-27T18:40:00.000+01:00

#1 Christmas Shopping #2 Christmas Hopping

2007-12-21T14:06:00.000+01:00

ComicFestival Hamburg 2007

2007-12-05T22:13:00.000+01:00

06. - 09. December 2007
For details, please click on image!

Santa Entangled

2007-12-02T13:49:00.000+01:00

Did this one about a year ago in Dortmund - foreseeing, that my next Christmas-Time will be closer to the sea. The booth's owner sold fish and had this Santa caught in his fish-light-net, you normally catch Christmas or other trees with ... I tried some colouring this time.

Experiment on Sketchcrawl Pictures

2007-12-01T20:30:00.000+01:00

Sketchcrawl # 16

2007-10-30T17:29:00.000+01:00

... click on picture to participate in Hamburg!

Times and Places are changing

2007-10-17T12:55:00.001+02:00

Due to my moving business (not be mixed up with other people's movie business) I haven't been around for a while. But hey why not use my holidays, to catch up a little again ... I thought to myself and a (non-computeral) virus did the same ... catch me if you can - and he could. Or she? Who really wants to know ...

... well at least I am alive. And that's I wanted to state: I keep on posting here. Soon again!

Two years online = Web 2.0?.

2007-10-15T16:57:00.000+02:00

So, if you are online for two years: Does this mean, you are the impersonated Web 2.0?

wer nicht gehört wird, muss fühlen

2007-07-29T13:24:00.000+02:00

click on picture to enlarge

Naked Censor

2007-07-11T14:59:00.000+02:00

After flickr made the start on censoring German accounts a couple of weeks ago an American publisher of children's books (Boyds Mills Press) now adds another story on censoring skin: The pictures shown above and the one following are taken from Rotraut Susanne Berner's worldwide reknown "Wimmelbücher" give too much room for naked details. They urged the illustrator to delete those two tiny details before they would buy the rights and print the books. She didn't want to and the German publisher either ... hmm, what does this story tell us?

Rooms with Views

2007-07-06T11:11:00.000+02:00

click on picture to enlarge invitation (c) by Anne

And for all of you, who still don't know, where to go next weekend. This is the place to be: The latest exhibition of modern Design in Photography and Graphic Design in Dortmund - at the University of Applied Sciences. Grand Opening on FRI, 07-07-13 at 12:00 p.m..

Three days from noon to seven at night to be seen here at Max Ophüls Platz 2, Dortmund.

... starring Anne and Anne!

Zwangzig

2007-06-29T22:40:00.000+02:00

click on picture to enlarge

Haven't been drawing for days, as we are somehow busy imagining pictures of future flats ... finally came up with this anniversary-greeting-card, for someone who is already working for 20 years for the same company.
"Zwangzig" (something like "compulsion(ing)") nearly sounds like "Zwanzig" (meaning "twenty") - so connected to compulsory labour ... translating plays of words stinks ... ;-)

End of tunnel

2007-06-10T19:43:00.000+02:00

Eight days of work to go at my current working place before heading for another challenge… thinking about that, the saying of our former minister for foreign affairs (Joschka Fischer) came back to my mind:

“It’s not the light at the end of the tunnel you see, it’s the lights of the encountering train coming up to you …”

Online-Festival

2007-06-01T22:30:00.000+02:00

Came about the live-stream to "Rock am Ring" - a classic major outdoor music festival, starting today and counting .... another two. And as it is for festivals: It's raining. So I remembered The Shins' singer I drew lately from a picture taken from the ARD - therefore the encircled number One.
Best festival equipment next to a raincoat allways seemed to be a life jacket for me - on the other hand, not the first choice if you prefer stage diving, though.

Negative Space

2007-05-29T23:11:00.000+02:00

click on picture to enlarge

Did some training in character design and their dynamic behaviour ... so is this one of 'em. Negative space and overlapping limbs are supposed to be the first step.

Talking about first steps and space and negative: Resuming the first weeks of spacious apartment-search: negative, Sir ... according to our budget ;-)

Waves // Wellen

2007-05-22T21:41:00.000+02:00

it's so hot and sticky these days // can't wait to get closer to the sea in some weeks // anyone out there having a home for us in Hamburg // we're still looking out for one // ... // no fun

Talking about waves ...

2007-05-22T21:40:00.000+02:00

.. global dimming will bring some more to us and where I might about to live. Take a look here, what the BBC and 3Sat broadcasted these days. Global dimming through pollution decelerated the effect of global warming. Now, as we work on reducing it ...

If you click on the picture, you'll be about to see the whole documentary by the weekly BBC-magazin "Horizon". Read a first insight here ...

"This is a film that demands action. It reveals that we may have grossly underestimated the speed at which our climate is changing. At its heart is a deadly new phenomenon. One that until very recently scientists refused to believe even existed. But it may already have led to the starvation of millions. Tonight Horizon examines for the first time the power of what scientists are calling Global Dimming."

18metzger // 18butchers

2007-05-16T22:37:00.000+02:00

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I yet don't know, how Olav Korth (Cologne) came up with his site's name. I only know, his comic-panels and ideas are always worth coming by once in while! He also is one of the contributors to Mamba.

Strange Things // Seltsame Dinge

2007-04-29T12:13:00.000+02:00

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"Seltsame Dinge" - meaning "strange things" - the boy was inspired by Alex Noriega (as written on the page above). After I got back to his page again, I went on drawing.
Funny enough my Mom called that night, some weeks ago, and told me strange things ... after I had drawn this page

Anne on Display

2007-04-25T15:40:00.000+02:00

After "Das Leben der Anderen" now "Das Leben der Dinge" - an exhibition where some of Anne's Photos are on display, too. To put it in other words : It's her first group exhibition. Tadaaah!

Grand opening on Friday, 27.04.2007 from 7 p.m.
Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte
Hansastr. 3
44137 Dortmund
Germany

Weser at Farge

2007-04-15T12:23:00.000+02:00

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Did some reality, too, around Easter. Spring green came around at the river Weser banks.

Inspiring Easter

2007-04-13T23:41:00.000+02:00

Tons of sketches, inspired by the fruitful Easter bunny and driven by some niece's picture- wishes I am about to share some with you.Bought two new colours so I am able to paint as pink and purple water as Enrico does in his ongoing Venice Chronicles.

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... and still more bunnies who couldn't be held next to the scanner, hidden in my books.

Frohe Ostern! // Happy Easter!

2007-04-08T10:27:00.000+02:00

Have a break, have some fun ...

2007-04-04T17:07:00.000+02:00

... and this it what happens ;-)

I got my name in lights with notcelebrity.co.uk

Un jour, un dessin ...

2007-03-31T10:27:00.000+02:00

.. that's what I am about to get close to. Next step would be to do an even harder thing for me: A scan per day ;-)

As I am still training on both of it, I have to share this wonderful watercolour-blog with you.

Rataouille

2007-03-21T20:26:00.000+01:00

just a test to see if this really works out fine ... and by the way I like the teaser and the Japanese trailer which might be the "real" trailer, too?

And the Oscar goes to ...

2007-02-27T14:55:00.000+01:00

... this wonderful German band I found: "Geschmeido". Just go there and click on some even free tracks to get into them and buy their new album at any personal retailer.

That picture, shown above reminds me of this years Oscar-winning movie "Das Leben der anderen" (Life of the Others) - though Geschmeido's b/w-photo has been taken a lot earlier.

Sketchcrawl # 12...andahalf

2007-01-28T20:34:00.000+01:00

This time (Jan 28th, 2007) it's been an worldwide indoor crawl. Here is what I would see from some place in our apartment. To get the full background-story, please take a look here. And to get an overview on all the wonderful participants work - this time in one big post - peak around this corner.

STOP (IF: Red // Jan 26)

2007-01-27T12:14:00.000+01:00

"Illustration Friday is a weekly illustration challenge. A topic is posted every Friday and then participants have all week to come up with their own interpretation. " it's saying on Illustration Friday. But the more popular this wonderful idea became, more and more nice illustrators leave illus done before the subject has been published and to top it: even promote these drawings for sale.

I am not jealous and there are some wonderful drawings on their way. But I'd like to have the spontaneous fun back, which lifted this forum - I am just a little bit tired of clicking through all the other posts not directly related to the idea of IF.

Red - Illustration Friday (Jan 26)

2007-01-26T22:07:00.000+01:00

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Rhett .. Red Butler

For all, who do not know: He is the male leading role in "Gone With The Wind"

... standing again!

2007-01-26T16:10:00.000+01:00

Due to some "maladissimo" I have been laying around most of the last days. Celebrating my hopefully upcoming upright period I test-post this:
A sketch I finally glued on that king-size matchbox, which in fact beholds these clips - really neat to clip some notes or postcards and have them stand around you ;-)
Snow is falling right now - allways a good sign for me. Am I right, a.n.?

.. guided by his fellow friend.

2007-01-15T22:40:00.000+01:00

Creepin' from underneath into ...

2007-01-04T23:12:00.000+01:00

.. the huggly-muggly bed, in some seconds. Story will follow. Good night everyone!

Oooh, so this is how it feels ...

2007-01-03T00:07:00.000+01:00

... when I start drawing and painting again. Time to go to bed and keep on monochrome colourworks. Will I be able to share and put up about one post per week as last year? Keep the fingers crossed.

Have yourself a merry litte dancing ...

2007-01-02T21:03:00.000+01:00

... and a happy new year, everyone!

I drew this on New Years Morning while traditionally watching the Vienna Symphonic Orchestra with their concert broadcasted worldwide. This song played every single year actually during my drawing this year was "An der schönen blauen Donau" - "At the beautiful blue river Donau" and has been dedicated by this year's conductor Zubin Mehta to the new members No. 26 and No. 27 of the European Union: Bulgaria and Romania, which should be crossed by the river Donau.

Welcome!

Some chairs left ...

2006-11-10T18:19:00.000+01:00

... to put on the desks and leave the room. Two and a half weeks left to be freed from the status of permanent assessment.

Sleepless Hippo

2006-11-04T12:34:00.000+01:00

... what a night! Change of weather can be very inspiring. Had that same feeling some days ago and did this drawing afterwards. Hope the weather won't change on a daily basis the next weeks and steady up a little.