birdsart | almost daily paintings
drawings, illustrations & wildlife art

Two weeks ago I spent a week in the Uckermark (a wild region, north from Berlin). I had a lot of opportunities for sketching. There are many lakes around mostly with grebes, goldeneyes and swans. The first six sketches are sheets (30 x 30 cm) from my sketchbook. I used mainly a black ballpoint with colored pencils. The great crested grebe (with the whole reflection) is a huge (A2 = 42 x 60 cm) sketch with inkpen and pastels (Neopastel by Carandache). The wagtail (sized A4 = 29,7 x 21 cm) is with ballpoint and Neopastels.

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Again sketches only with a ballpoint. All drawings are from 20 min sessions with strong artificial light and a black background. All pages are A3 sized.

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The first week of November with a friend of mine, we spent a week in Mallorca, in Port Soller. This was my first paint trip. The island is still very lovely, especially in the inner part, far away from all the hotels.

 

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Every friday evening a group of about 10 persons gather to draw and sketch a model. This time the person who wanted to model, forgot about it. So we decided that every present person should take a seat for 10 minutes. I started to draw the people in a different way as usually.