The sun is out, the green stuff is growing and ... I have hayfever. Nevertheless, its brilliant to literally be out of the fog. The Lake here is producing so much of that during autumn and winter - you can't imagine how dull and grey it is then!
Also, thank you everybody for over 2000 pageviews (although you can do better!.. no wait.. I can do better!)
I am pretty busy with University again, I would LOVE to paint more but that will have to wait till after the semester.

I am back again to make some ATC cards for a couple of friends, to read Inkdeath by Cornelia Funke after having completed Inkspell last week, and to make a few necessary purchases (Halbtax aka demi-tarif aka metà-prezzo for Swiss trains, student ticket for the buses here, socks, ...). Oh and if anyone has a few spare €uros - my 3 month deviantart subscription has run out and I don't have the right kind of plastic cards to extend it myself...
PS Later on I'll put two or three pages out of my moleskine travel sketchbook online.

Travel journalling, here I come!

So far, so good. A kind dA watcher has noted how happy she is to see me so productive [link]
All I can say is that it really feels good to be productive and it feels 'right'. Better than studying Pragmatics, Morphology&Co by far!
Unfortunately I'll have to exchange the brushes with a black waterproof fineliner and the stretched watercolour paper with my moleskine watercolour sketchbook as I go visit my family up north for Easter. I hope I'll stay productive and the resulting sketches (which will be coloured in later) look nice too. After that week, I'll go for a wee holiday to Switzerland - I just can't spend two months in this student accommodation flat/room.
I'll be back.... in two weeks from Monday.

Freeeeedom! (Once again)

Finally my 3rd semester at University has finished and it took me a week to get balanced out from all that exam stress and those couple of bone fragments in my right hand wrist.
They are still there and I can't do stuff with my right hand for very long, but I gotta do what I gotta do. Draw, paint and try to improve.
So I started off with a painting of a knife for the Illustration Friday [link] competition/challenge/outlet. I hope you like it.
My to-do-list for this study break (5 weeks left) as far as art is concerned:

- a couple of Christmas cards / ideas for cards (yeah, I don't want to start working on that in November, cause that's what happened last time, and I would've been happier to come up with several cards to choose from)

- Theme of the Month on john-howe.com for March: WIP:


- draw some of those wonderful castles in the book I got for my birthday

- Illustration Fridays

- life drawings (to get my hand/eye coordination back into shape)

- ...

... erm, I should stop here before I take on too much.
So, in a nutshell, I want to be creatively productive in the next few weeks.
Feel free to keep me accountable, and if possible - inspired!

This is so cool - has bought me a subscription!!! I knew she was going to because she wasn't sure and we had talked about it. Anyway, I'm a happy bunny now.
I don't only have to thank her, I also have to wish her a Happy Belated Birthday - the young lady turned 22 yesterday!
Now I have a week to find out how the sub features work.

I wish you all a verrry Happy New Year - be safe, be warm, have a party if you can but don't overdo it!

...----> off to have breakfast and prepare New Year's Eve things....