House Break

I haven't been here last week, because I moved - and there is so much to do in my new house. Apart from that I have started a training course last Monday, so I haven't really had time to paint. Apart from Wednesday, of course I went to my drawing course. ;)
So today I'm uploading an archive painting:

outstanding

another one

I have done some more portraits during the last week. Who recognises him? (even though it's a bit hard for non-Germans, respective non-Londoners *g*)

from a photo by astroflex

Takkoda

Talking about portraits... Do you know the heart-warming photo collages from Takkoda? I have the 2011 diary and the dogs, cats and hamsters have already given me lots of joy.
Here I have adapted the Takkoda-'Che' in watercolour for a friend of mine:

nach einer Fotocollage von Takkoda

Cap

... and today we started drawing portraits. Our course teacher was very brave and offered to model for our first attempts. We started with 15 minute portraits and in the end we had to do some in 2 minutes (we took turns modelling later on). It was heaps of fun.
Afterwards I sat in a cafe and continued to practice. One of the portraits turned out rather well I thought so I asked the unsuspecting model if he minded me putting it up on the blog - he did not! Thank you again! ;)

Drawing

I am studying drawing at the moment in a 7-week-course. The first 4 weeks we drew still lives, like this one: