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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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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The sleeping Finley

is the shy and loving Whippet (I think so?) of Bella.

Ostpark

Es el parque más cerca de mi casa.. siguiendo la calle que subiendo un poquito, luego bajando, se derrama al final en el verde. Me gusta mi calle soleada y sin tráfico.. y como un poco pueblerina..
El Ostpark tiene una planicie muy grande con estanque, y al principio un pequeñito jardín más frondoso y vallado, como botánico, sin pretensión, con un riachuelo sinuoso discurriendo entre pinos, alisos y abedules..

Ostpark is the park more next to my place.. just following the street, upwards and then downwards, spilling at the end in the green. I like my sunny and traffic-free street, like a bit provincial.
The Ostpark has a big green field with a pond, but at the beginning it has also a leafy and fenced little garden, like a botanical garden without ambitions, with a stream flowing between pines, birches and alder trees.

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...

Spree

heißt das kleine Dackel von Natalia und Juan.
Sie ist voll süß, nicht aber freundlich mit Umbekannten... es hat eine Weile gedauert bis da sie mit mir spielen und kuscheln wollte! :)

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Is the name of the little "dachshund" dog of Natalia and Juan.
She is sweet, but not the most friendly pet! It took a long time until she wanted to play and cuddle with me! :)

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"Spree" se llama la perrita de Juan y Natalia.
Es muy mona pero no muy amigable con extraños! Tardó bastante en querer jugar conmigo y dejar que la acariciase.

Jardins de Montfort

Montfort gardens, also Valencia. A mixture of mediterranean, arabic flair and art nouveau romanticism.. 

Los jardines de Montfort, en Valencia. Una mezcla entre herencia árabe, mediterranea y romanticismo modernista.

And some sketchs at the Malvarrosa beach.
Algunos apuntes en la playa Malvarrosa.

The old river channel has left place to a long, green park. The river course was altered after the big flood of 1957.

El parque fluvial, que ocupa el cauce del antiguo río, desviado tras la inundación de 1957.

Jardines del Real, Valencia

It is now 2 weeks ago that I came from my holidays in Valencia and Asturias... and directly landed to Berlin I got terribly sick. Now I am scanning the drawings and sketches from my spanish holidays and wandering with nostalgia about Summer and Spain.. 

"Al Agua" Jardines del Real, Valencia.
Watercolor on Schut Terschelling 300gr/m2 paper
Size: 18 x 24 cm,  7" x 9.5"

Si, hace ya dos semanas que estoy de vuelta en Berlin.... y directa a la llegada, una semana completamente acatarrada! Escaneo los dibujos de mis vacaciones en Valencia y Asturias y me da nostalgia... de España y del Verano ..

Father & Daughter

but it could be Father and Son...
Still remembering summer days.. so quickly away!