Drawing around Höchst and Nidda river

 In early Summer I was lucky to meet a small group of outdoors painters gathering around the Nidda river. 

It was a lovely warm morning and I was able to make two pleinair watercolors: a smaller one in a very sucker watercolor paper (which made a bit crazy),  and an A4 in a much easier Canson paper. I  was again lucky to use the watercolor palette from Jelena, the organisator, after realizing I left mine at home! (this kind of thing happens...)

I enjoyed painting the second one so much, not only because of the more predictable paper but because of the scene..sitting in the rivershore smelling the water mint, hearing the voices of the young people, plenty of life and joy defying the cold water and the mysterious place. So ancient, so bucolic, as the people hundred of years ago have been enjoying the hot summer days.. Exactly like this. In the pure, beautiful nature. 

Let me laugh about all those screenlinks and gadgets and silly perishable distractions. Those don't leave a trace. Those don't make you hang and love our lives...

We are getting so lost and disconected, this poor, poor Humanity, less and less human! Where are we going?

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Thoughts apart.

 Since last Friday the 11th September is taking place a small exhibition in a cosy space with some of the works painted around Nidda and Höchst.

HERE:

From Fr.11.09 bis Fr.02.10 

Kunstraum "Westkunst Frankfurt Nied"

Bolongarostr. 137

 

65929 Frankfurt am Main West

These are my four displayed drawings:

 

 

 

Wittelsbacherallee, Frankfurt Bornheim.

Another watercolor and pencil sketch on my neighbourhood, the beautiful Wittelsbacheralle that divides Frankfurt Ostend from Frankfurt Bornheim, I think!

The big plane trees accompany the curved street and the charming old buildings.

I drew this on a Sunday in Winter, the soft light, violet and ochre colors, the quietness of the street invited to sketch.

Wittelsbacherallee, Frankfurt Bornheim -  2021
Watercolour  and pencil
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Nordendplatz, Frankurt

 Another sketch on location on my way, here the very lively Nordendplatz that has all to be a beloved meeting point:

Small bookshop, natural and home-made ice cream dealer, Café with tables outside...  and a playground for children under big chesnut trees...  In the sketch appear just the bike riders, Altbau fassade and the beautiful big trees... next time more :)

Nordendplatz Frankfurt Nordend- 2020
Watercolor and pencil on sketchbook
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Waldschmidtstrasse, Frankfurt

 Hier ist eine Straße dass ich fast täglich bei Fahrrad durchfahre... Sie ist die direkter Verbindung zwischen meinen Standort in Ostend und westlichen Stadteilen wie Bornheim-Nordend, Nordend .. Sie fährt mir direkt zu Merianplatz, Friedbergerplatz usw.... 

Waldschmidtstraße, Frankfurt Nordend- 2020
Watercolor and pencil on sketchbook
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No.2 Records - Concerts

Two musicians, singersong writers, were playing in the small and nice music shop No.2 Records in Sachsenhausen this early year. Both American:  Jim Reed and Ian Fisher.
It was an intim and intense concert with sometimes romantic and sometimes ironic passages and we enjoyed it a lot.

Jim Reed in No2 Records

Jim lives in Frankfurt and Ian will play here in February again so I hope to hear them soon!

Ian Fisher in No2 Records

Oberrad

A sunny day in Winter I went with my bike to an area I have never been before: Oberrad. Actually not far away at all, but somehow isolated because of the highway and train rails. It was very rural and charmant and I enjoyed drawing there with the early Spring light in the sky.

Pleinair in Oberrad - 2019
Oilpastels on brown paper
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Mampf - The JB Lloyds

Mampf is a small pub with live music many days of the Week, main stream in Jazz and Blues. It is in my neighbourhood so we go there ofter in Winter.
Here were the two funny blues musicians, I thought no one realise when I was drawing, because I always try not to move my head so much, but the singer caught it very soon and asked me to show him the drawings. He was very excited and like them, so said he :D

Out of Frankfurt - Berger Enkheim

A long and windy road on a cold Sunday of February...  I went with my bike to the East of Frankfurt, looking for some nature and peace. And I found it :)

A pleinair gouache painting of the winterly landscape, where the birds already were singing as a Spring Prelude... 

More drawing coming! Excuse the long pause!

Pleinair in ENKHEIM landscape - 2019
gouache on brown paper
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Palmengarten ...

again!
We are having a very grey, dark, grey, rainy Februrary (not today!). It is also very cold, so on Sunday there is not much joy to go for a hike. That's why a couple of weeks ago I went for a walk to the Palmengarten in Frankfurt. There is cosy and green, and if it is raining you can go inside and feel a bit tropical, even if it is still dark and grey! 💚

Green Jungle, Palmengarten - 2019
Watercolour an pencil sketch
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 First I tried to stay outside, and I sat under a evergreen tree to paint this majestic Beech tree with oil pastels which are good when it is wet and raining... but the rain didn't want to stop so I moved inside to paint more greenery and the crazy Orchideas blooming! wow, they look a bit like aliens to me...

Old Beech tree in Palmengarten - 2019
Oil pastels
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Orchideas at Palmengarten - 2019
black ink sketch
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Palmengarten Frankfurt

A sunny, Summer Sunday morning at the Palmengarten in Frankfurt. I went for a guided visit on the subject "Palmtrees". It was very interesting, afterwords I make a walk through the gardens and sketched a little bit. With watercolors and with black ball pen.
Also I went inside the greenhouse to draw some tropical plants. I will bring you soon some more to keep faith and strenght over this grey year time!

Palmengarten, Frankfurt - 2018
black ballpen sketch
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Palmengarten, Frankfurt - 2018
watercolour sketch
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Meanwhile have a nice 2nd Advent!

Tropical flowers - 2018
watercolour and pencil sketch
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Tropical flowers - 2018
black ballpen sketch
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Feierabend im Fein

Fein, das feine Wasserhäuschen in der Grüneanlage..
Ich habe schon irgendwann ein Skizze von Ort hier gezeigt.. Aber nun kommen ein paar mehr.
Ist es doch ein geliebter Ort wenn das Wetter schön ist .. und dieser Frühling und Sommer können wir nicht meckern .. doch vielleicht etwas mehr Regen wäre nicht verkehrt! 😋

Fein feierabend - 2018
blue pencil sketch
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Fein feierabend - 2018
blue pencil sketch
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Frankfurt am Main

direct at the river shore, a Summer evening.

I drew this watercolor on location in 2016. All the people were outside enjoying the warm evening. At the background, the Mainhattan Skyline under the pink and golden sunset light.

Frankfurt am Main 2016
Watercolor and pencil sketch
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Nude drawing in movement.

a couple more nude drawings after female model.
I post here the quick line drawings, where I try to catch as fast as possible the essence of the model and the movement.

Female Nude 2017 - ink drawing
Size: 11" x 16" (29,7 x 42 cm)
/SOLD/

Female Nude 2017 - ink drawing
Size: 11" x 16" (29,7 x 42 cm)
/SOLD/

Female Nude 2017 - charcoal
Size: 11" x 16" (29,7 x 42 cm)
ORIGINAL for sale /HERE/

Finissage Wed. 21st March

In café Metropol
Wecktmarkt 15,  60311 Frankfurt am Main.
Is the last time to see my botanical pictures there, and we will play a lot of beautiful music, from classics to jazz!
Come if you are in Frankurt!

Exhibition at Café Metropol

in Frankfurt, to see until February 2018.

Café Metropol
Weckmarkt 15,
60311 Frankfurt am Main
http://www.metropolcafe.de/


You can visit the cosy Café close to the Frankfurter Cathedral, have a nice brunch, meal or coffee pot, and look at the pictures that hang at the walls. There are 21 original watercolors and oil paintings of flowers and veggies, and 4 Prints of my more modern botanical series "Foliage".
Have a nice Christmas everyone!!