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:

 

 

 

"Spring Bloom"

"Flores de Marzo" was the spanish name. 

 I am refreshing my ETSY shop "CATILUSTRE" with some new drawings. It is a long time that I don't update it after having my baby nearly two years ago! I didn't expect to be soooo busy and often soooo tired too! hahaha 👶

Have a look if you need new wallart or some present for a lovely one :)

"Spring Blooms", watercolor and pencil.

/Print HERE/

Pears as Tears

 This is a winner of last edition of the cooperation between Minted and Westelm, an ink drawing after cute Autumn Pears softly digitally colored. You can buy it directly by Minted /HERE/

Pears as Tears-  2021
Ink and digital colour
in Minted  /HERE/

 

Some Wild flowers ....

A bouquet and souvenir of a Spring in Portugal, two years ago, when the world was a gathering place and people enjoy being together without fears or illness... 

You can buy a print of this drawing in my ETSY shop /HERE/

Wild Flowers Bouquet  -  2019
Watercolour and pencil
PRINT for sale /HERE/

Celuán, pleinair watercolour seascape...

A little beach of white sand where the industrial river flows into the sea.. It is quiet, a bit misty, cloudy and warm, and I think that these pastel colors are so typical of Asturias coast..

Celuán, Asturias -  2018
Watercolour pleinair
PRINT for sale /HERE/

 

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
PRINT for sale /HERE/

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
PRINT for sale /HERE/

 

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
PRINT for sale /HERE/

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
PRINT for sale /HERE/

Feliz 2019

Ay ay! I have to catch up this good whish for you all 💖, at least before January is over :D and before Spring comes... that will come, yes !!

The 2018 was a crazy year with a couple of big changes that came like surprises, some old dream coming true this year, like quitting the music lessons and making a living from my art ..  And because life is a yinyan, was not all roses in 2018..,
I am confident and optimist about this already starting 2019 and I wish also your dreams to come true. I am sure now that it can ever happen, so keep on with it!
I will also try to update ofter this blog, as I forgot it a bit due to the easiness and comfort of using Instagram, for those using it also  -->
https://www.instagram.com/catilustre/

KISSES and LOVE
Catalina

Aschaffenburg drawings

Schloss Johannisburg, Aschaffenburg - 2018
Ink drawing
PRINT for sale /HERE/

Aschaffenburg- 2018
gouache and pencil sketch
PRINT for sale /HERE/

Street in Aschaffenburg- 2018
Watercolor sketch
PRINT for sale /HERE/

A couple of months ago there was a Urbansketchers meeting in Aschaffenburg, a very nice city in Bavaria close to Frankfurt and along the Main River.
Even if it was quite cold and windy, we got to make a few sketches. Here is my contribution.

 After sketching outside, we went to the mythic Schlappeseppel brewery to eat some Wurst mit Kraut and drink some.. Bier of course 😋

Beer plants Triology

Print for sale /HERE/

Now you can buy the SET of 3 PRINTS which refer to beer /HERE/
Barley, Hops, Wheat.
These are prints of my original botanical drawings with pencil and watercolors.

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!!