Thursday evening #uskdortmund #urbansketching : in the cold, first day of the Christmas market (ok: "Christmas City"), sketching the biggest Christmas tree worldwide (or something like that) (no, it's not about being pretty) but not lightened up yet (I think they turn it on on Sunday or Monday?)

Yesterday's #urbansketchers meetup in Dortmund: Sketching in front of the Petrikirche again.
It's unbelievably warm 15°C (or more?) in the evening at the moment.
That's new: being able to sketch the people sitting outside at a Cafe at 6 pm in the dark. Seems like a November heat wave.
#uskdortmund

Last Thursday evening #uskdo meetup: night time #urbansketching of the merry go round during the in-between-markets phase (time between Hanse market and official Christmas market) with the pretty big moon in the background.

(getting the colors right is a lot harder in the dark)

The last few weeks of #uskdo #urbansketching :
Rombergpark, Propsteikirche (three little boys helping me color in the sky and the trees),
and yesterday sketching in the dark on the Hansemarkt (a try at sketching moving people)
It's the dark season now: no more daylight Thursday evening sketches 🥲

Last Sunday #urbansketching with #uskdortmund on the Ostfriedhof.

Sketching one of the other #urbansketchers sketching the wonderful floral metal ornaments of one of the graves.

Thursday evening Urban Sketching meet up in Dortmund:
staying inside cause of the rain and sketching the view from the U-Tower.
It's starting to get darker earlier again...

#urbansketching #uskdortmund #usk

yesterday's #UrbanSketching meet up with #uskdortmund
I was too concentrated on all those buildings and whatever perspective does when you look down a street - forgetting all the passerbys that should also be caught on paper.
So now I have a ghost street.
Next time: more people!

#urbansketchers

Some of my sketches from the #uskstuttgart German meet up. From the Sketchwalks (Kraftwerk Münster & Markthalle), an unfinished in-between sketch (cause of a passerby who wouldn't stop talking to me and telling me how bad people are) and the Theaterhaus.
#usk #urbansketchers #uskstuttgart2025

Last few weeks of #urbansketching Thursday evening #uskdortmund meet ups.
The group not wanting to go far, just sticking to a few meters around the U-tower in Dortmund...

This week adding to my nature journal: some very common wild flowers (especially the dandelions are happily blooming in every little strip of green and sidewalk cracks right now) and watching a wagtail catch flies.

#naturejournaling

first try. #uskdortmund