Urlaub!

Liebe Leute!
ja, ich war lange weg. So viel zu tun am Schulende, und eine Woche weg in Iffens, Butjadingen, in einem Bauernhof in Nordsee, mit schöner Landschaft, lieben Tiere und gaaanz liebe Leute ;)
Nun habe ich leider nicht so viel Zeit um schreiben weil ich gleich nach Spanien fliege! So, hier nur ein erstes Bild! und mehr kommen am ende August!
Schöner Sommer an Ihr alle!

Al rico Molusco!

os dije que en mi huerto había sobrepoblación de babosas? Babosas rojizas americanas? (esto lo he oído hace poco, al parecer las negritas más delgaditas son las autóctonas, y estas gorrinas marronáceas está desplazando su población y jalando sin piedad todo lo que aparece en su camino)
Pues el Jueves fui al huerto tarde, después de regar empezaba a anochecer, y así húmedo y oscureciendo es cuando les gusta salir a estas babosas... sin esfuerzo me puse a recolectarlas en una bolsa, fue más eficaz que la cerveza, 74 babosas en menos de media hora, creo que unos dos kilos pesaría al final la bolsa..
Y a la pregunta, qué hice con ellas? paella? sopa? aplastarlas o matarlas? noo... tampoco las eché al huerto vecino ;) Me las llevé lejos hasta un área más urbana y allí en un prado las solté. Si habrán sido la cena de una familia de erizos? eso no lo sabré..

"oh! qué rico huele la cerveza!"

un poco simpáticas parecen..

Last Thursday I went late in the evening to the garden. After working and watering, as the nightfall arrived, many Snugs started to appear in their way to the banquet.. Without effort I collected them. 74 samples in less than half an hour! 
At the question, what I did with them afterwards? nooo I didn't cook them! nooo I didn't throw them to neighbour garden, nooo I didn't squashed them and kill them. At last they didn't look that unfriendly to me. I just took them far away and let them in a green area in the city. If they were the dinner of an hedgehog family? I will never know...

Red Radishes

From my garden plot, half eaten by the snugs and snails.

We have also a generous community of these fellows living there. 

But beer is their infatuation... 

"Red Radishes"

Pencil & Watercolor 

Paper: 21cm x 29.7cm (8" x 11") 170gr/m2

/You can buy a PRINT here/

Rabanitos carmín de mi huerto. A medias comidos por las babosas tragonas, de las cuales tenemos una buena representación viviendo allí.... pero la cerveza es su perdición!

Sphinx Moth

and this one is a real one, I found it last week coming home, on the portal stairs, it was quite good camouflaged in its fresh mossy green tones. It is beautiful, isn't it?

Y  tras las mariposas, una esfinge, pero ésta de verdad! La encontré la semana pasada en las escaleras del portal, camuflada astutamente en sus frescos tonos de verde musgoso.

Butterflies

ready to hang!

You can buy the original Illustration /HERE/

You can buy the original Illustration /HERE/

 I am working on a new Series, trying to make illustrations as ready-to-hang products, hanging them directly on the wall with no need of passepartout or frame. 
These are the two first ones, inspired in spring and nature. My intention is to turn into many other subjects... But here the first shy try. 

Linden Blossom 4/2015

"Linden Blossom 4/2015"

Pencil & Watercolor 

Paper: 21cm x 29.7cm (8" x 11") 170gr/m2

/You can buy a PRINT here/

You can see all my collection of Linden Blossom /HERE/

Caretos Sculpture

And what if the loved Caretos inside my head (or my heart?) come out this time not in paper, but as a 3D shape?  

I made those this Saturday, we have got a terribly raining and grey morning, perfect to sit at my terrace and  squeeze my fingers in the damp clay...

Linden Blossom 3/2015

and still blooming the beautiful Linden. And there are so many different kinds! in different blooming stadium. I realize it each year: the one with more rounded leaves, with dark green, shining surface, the other silver with more pointed and sharp leaves and dry green tone.. the curly one... also the shapes of the tree are quite different.  I will have to check a Trees encyclopedia to know the true name of each..

"Linden Blossom 3/2015"

Pencil & Watercolor 

Paper: 21cm x 29.7cm (8" x 11") 170gr/m2

/You can buy a PRINT here/

Linden Blossom 2/2015

and here is the next Linden drawing of the season... 

"Linden Blossom 2/2015"

Pencil & Watercolor 

Paper: 21cm x 29.7cm (8" x 11") 170gr/m2

/You can buy a PRINT here/

You can see all my collection of Linden Blossom /HERE/

Linden Blossom 1/2015

another Season, here are the great, beautiful Linden trees blooming and scattering in the warm evening air their sweet parfum...

"Linden Blossom 1/2015"

Pencil & Watercolor
Paper: 21cm x 29.7cm (8" x 11") 170gr/m2

/You can buy a PRINT here/

You can see all my collection of Linden Blossom /HERE/
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Otra estación, los preciosos Tilos floreciendo y esparciendo en el templado aire de atardecer su fragancia dulce..

Sauces y patos

Muchísimos patos de diferentes familias, como si fuesen rebaños de ovejas pastando, pero en lugar de ovejas, patos... a las orillas del estanque en Ostpark. Otro nostálgico atardecer. Porque me olía a agua dulce, a lago, y me recordaba los primeros veranos en Berlin.. Están por descubrir los lagos de Hessen, un poco más escondidos quizás... os informaré en cuanto los conozca..

Sbahn Störungen

In Berlin the underground and regional train were not the best... but in Frankfurt they are a Katastrophe!
Yesterday it took me over two hours to get home. I worked somewhere out the city, a place among the wheat and raps fields.. I always take the bike in the train and then I ride... if I knew it, I would have ride all the way back home! but once in the train, it was a prison... so I passed the time by looking at the travelers. No one seemed to be worried or hurried.. thanks that they had their smart-phones with :D

En Berlin el transporte público no era lo mejor... pero en Frankfurt es una catástrofe!

Ayer tardé más de dos horas en volver a casa.. trabajo en un colegio entre campos de trigo y colza.. . voy con la bici en el tren y luego pedaleo hasta allá. Si hubiese sabido que el tren se colgaría ahí tanto tiempo habría vuelto en bici hasta casa. Pero una vez dentro del tren, me quedé prisionera. Nadie parecía preocuparse ni tener prisa... menos mal que tenían sus teléfonos! :)

PS- you can have a look at all my people sketches /HERE/

Elderflowers

Holunderblüten auf Deutsch.

"Saúco en flor"

Pencil & Watercolor on 170gr/m2 paper

Size 21cm x 29.7cm (8" x 11")

/You can buy a PRINT here/

And here some Elderflowers smelling as fresh as lemon, with the bitter pinch of the lemon peel.
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Y aquí algunas flores de saúco, oliendo tan frescas como el limón, y el punto amargo de su cáscara.

Grünanlage

is a long green park as a sinuous snake following the path where the medieval walls closed the old city
Here is the Eschenheimer Anlage at evening. People walk trough this green belt better than through the streets. They sit in the banks and chat or eat the evening sandwich after work, and play table-tennis. Elder trees were covered by their lemon smelly, plate flowers..

Female Nude N.6 - 10/09/14

You can see all my other nude drawings /HERE/

"Female Nude N.6 - 10/09/14"
Size 42cm x 29.7cm (11" x 16")
Pencil & Watercolor on Canson paper 200gr/m2
/You can buy the ORIGINAL here/

Lilas

Dark or light purple, violet, white, more blue or more magenta nuances, but all in the lilac's range, and all smelling like sweet honey, bee's dream... just a couple of weeks has lasted this lilacs explosion.. 

"Lilas"

Pencil & Watercolor on 300gr/m2 paper

Size 21cm x 29.7cm (8" x 11")

/You can buy a PRINT here/

Morado oscuro o claro, violeta, blanco, con matices más azulados o magenta, pero todos en la gama lila, y oliendo a miel dulce, sueños de abejas.. solo un par de semanas duró esta explosión lila..

Günthersburgpark

At the evening light. At the south side of this bornheimer park, by this enormous platanus, some people -me among- gather together, talk, drink and play frisbee once a week.. if the weather allows it!

A la luz de atardecer. En el lado sur de este parque en Bornheim, junto a este enorme plátano, un grupo de gente (yo entre ellos) se reúne una vez a la semana a charlar, beber, jugar al frisbee... si el tiempo lo permite! mes de Mayo frío, ventoso y lluvioso!

Rhododendron mauve III

The last mauve Rhododendron I bring you this season... but visit me here soon, many other flowers are coming :)

"Rhododendron mauve III"

Size 42cm x 29.7cm (11" x 16")

Pencil & Watercolor on Canson paper 200gr/m2

/You can buy a PRINT here/

Rhododendron mauve II

And here you don't have to imagine its real color anymore.... so mauve as this, pure mauve. Perfect and delicate.. But no smell at all. So I prefer roses,  the shape of their bushes, their nuances and tender fragility.

"Rhododendron mauve II"

Size 42cm x 29.7cm (11" x 16")

Pencil & Watercolor on Canson paper 200gr/m2

/You can buy a PRINT here/

Rhododendron mauve I

After the lilacs (I am bringing them too!), the Rhododendron started blooming. 
And it depends which color they are, they bloom earlier or later. This mauve was one of the first. Still full with flowers, but not for much longer...