More portrait sketching on toned paper

 

Really enjoy this brownish paper in the meantime. Very suitable for fast watercolour sketching. This person looks very much alike the prompt of jyportraitchallenge and I am superhappy with it. 

More of these... just for the fun of it.

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Portrait Sketching on toned paper

 

Back to portrait sketching. Still had an A4 block of toned paper, 200 gms which I initially bought for Urban Sketching, but wanted to use it up now as I would like to concentrate on larger formats.

I really liked to sketch with that paper, although it warps a little as it is thinner than my usual paper and it needs more layers to take enough colour.

 

The models I am painting are from my friend at jyportraitchallenge. Thanks to Judith.

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Sketchtour Schwäbisch Hall, Nightsketching and Portraits...

The only nightsketch I was able to finish, was the one I did alongside Smadar and Isaac from cityhall towards Café am Markt. We were in such a good mood, that it was nearly sad to quit. The violet, Smadar used is awesome and we were having nerdy talks about colours that evening. 

Later in the night, I joined the small group sitting at our hotel living room having a glass or two and we still continued to sketch...

Here are the portrait sketches that I had done when there was a bit of spare time, mostly when we were eating or in the evenings and most are unfinished:

 

Below you can see my nightsketch of one of our great photographers (and also Sketcher) Standa:

Thanks to all other photographers like Piotr and Robert who documented our Sketchtour.

...stay tuned for more...

SKETCHTOUR KIRCHBERG - Portrait Sketching

 

 

Before the sketchwalk there were a few minutes left, so I sketched Claudia at lunchbreak. 

And here comes the portrait of Conny. These were the only portraits I could do during Sketchtour Kirchberg. Time was so tight.

Die Zeit war so knapp, dass ich nur zwei Portraits während der Sketchtour Kirchberg geschafft habe.

Zoom Meeting with USk Augsburg

 

Some time ago, I met with some fellow sketchers from USk Augsburg for a portrait session again. We had lots of fun and I made three fast portraits within about two hours. My first one was Simon with lots of curly hair and headphones. Then I sketched Sylvia who made portraits with clay, looking down to concentrate on her sculpturing.

 

And at last I made a fast sketch of Julia who was sketching for an Insta challenge while we talked. And I also started to sketch Joachim, which I could not finish. I was too tired and quit a bit earlier. A real fun time and I hope to be able to attend next time again.

 

#2020PragueSketchFest - Grand Café Orient

A fantastic cubist café is the Grand Café Orient in Prague. I felt like at home somehow. It was my last sketching opportunity with the USk Prague friends and we had a great time there. The sympathetic Delphine was my subject for the foreground. The friendly waiter by the cash desk in the background moved a lot so I had to interrupt and continue each time he came back. The decoration and the lamps are fantastic for a sketcher. This is my personal favourite sketch so far. The feeling for the place and the surrounding friends made it a very good experience for me...like I was in the flow...

Ein tolles kubistisches Cafe ist das Grand Café Orient in Prag. Ich fühlte mich wie Zuhause. Es war meine letzte Gelegenheit mit den Prager Freunden zu malen und wir nutzten die Zeit. Die sympathische Delphine ist die Person im Vordergrund und der Kellner, weiter hinten an der Kasse. Dieser bewegte sich ständig und flitzte umher. So musste ich mehrmals ansetzen und immer weitermalen, wenn er mal wieder kurz an der Kasse stand. Die Deko und die Lampen waren zum Malen super. Das ist bisher meine Lieblingsskizze, denn das Gefühl und das Drumherum hatte gepasst...man könnte es "flow" nennen.



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#2020PragueSketchFest - Café Platyz

Another portrait sketch. This time it is of artist Leisan who sat opposite. I sketched and had some good food and nice art talk there.

When I did the fast two min. sketch below, I used the watersoluble pen I received from LK Bing during a workshop in Amsterdam. Then I took a dot card with fun colours to give it some colour. 

 Nochmal ein Portrait. Diese Mal von Leisan, die mir schräg gegenüber saß. Ich malte sie und aß nebenbei das gute Essen und alle teilten Skizzenbücher und wir hatten gute Gespräche.

Beim unteren Bild war es so, dass nicht mehr viel Zeit war, denn wir wollten ja noch draussen sketchen, also entschied ich mich für einen wasserlöslichen Tuschestift und skizzierte in zwei Minuten. Den Stift habe ich bei einem Workshop von LK Bing erhalten. Die Aquarellfarbe die ich so minimal aufgetragen habe stammt von einer Dotcard. 











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#2020PragueSketchFest - Johanna, oder so

My sketching friend Johanna was the one who informed me in the first place about the event and after having had two days of great sketching with USk Prage, that evening, we met for more private dinner at a nice restaurant in the old part of Prague. I sketched her before the meal came. This one was super fast and super fun. It is a direct watercolour.

Meine Malfreundin Johanna, war diejenige, die mich ursprünglich auf das Sketchfest aufmerksam gemacht hatte und nachdem wir nun zwei super Tage mit USk Prag verbracht hatten, trafen wir uns zu einem eher privaten Abendessen in einem netten Restaurant in der Altstadt von Prag. Bevor das Essen kam, musste ich sie auf jeden Fall noch malen. Das ging super schnell und machte Spaß. Es handelt sich um ein direktes Aquarell.


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#2020PragueSketchFest - Portrait Sketching

Now it is time to post a few of my portrait sketchings. Sketched Helena, Emma and Raj at Café Slavia and Jan Vitek the day before at dinner in Klasterni Senk. 


Btw he did two super line (continuous line!) portraits of me and lots of beautiful artwork of 20 consecutive days of sketching could be found on Urbansketchers Prague Facebook Group 

Jetzt ist es an der Zeit ein paar meiner Portrait-Skizzen zu zeigen. Helena, Emma und Raj habe ich im Café Slavia gemalt und den Jan am Abend vorher im Klasterni Senk.





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