Plein air in Lohrberg

The first weekend of February it was mild and sunny and I met again with Gordian to make some landscape paintings in plein air. We went to Lohrberg, a park in a hill on East Frankfurt.. I was already there sketching if you remember..
This was my first oil painting in some long time! I still need new equipment as an easel. I tried with water soluble oils which surprised me whith their good quality! The only thing it takes really long to dry.
As soon as the weather turns warmer we will go much more often to paint. And we will grow a "plein-air" painters group in Hessen area! So if you are reading me and you would like to join us, write me and I will inform you of our next gathering!

Gordian painting, photo by me.

Me painting, photo by Gordian.

Sunset over the vineyards in Lohrberg. At the back ground, Frankfurt skyline.

Lohrberg Apfelfest

El pasado Martes celebramos el cumple de Stephi en Lohrberg, un parque con manzanos en una colina al Noreste de Frankfurt. Arriba hay un merendero, era noche de luna llena y había sopa de calabaza y manzana, y hogueras. Había también una presa de manzanas y podías beber zumo recién exprimido o sidra. Y un trío tocaban canciones con acordeón, guitarra y contrabajo... todo muy bucólico y casero, como las típicas verbenas de un pueblo pequeño.

Lohrberg in Seckbach

last Sunday I was wandering with my bike just around, trying to know better the area where I am now living. I went further and further, and crossed under the highway to reach the other side, where Seckbach is. An old, carefully maintened village very close to Frankfurt. I climbed up (not so easy with bike) to the top of a hill, the Lohrberg park. Up there you could see the whole Frankfurt city skyline... though it was not that what I drew, but the fields skyline and the kind sheeps down in the valley...