Major Artistic Breakthrough

Goooooooood Morning. Yesterday evening at my watercolor class happened something that I didn't even know I waited for. What?

For the first time in my life I found that I liked my sketch and painting best of the class. Until yesterday I always had the feeling that almost everyone else is superior to me in almost all areas of my life.

So with that development I'm feeling much better and self-confident. Perfect timing.

Classic Entrance and a little of mood shopping

This is the formidable entrance to the church of the little Saxonian town Wolkenburg.

Yesterday I had a really frustrating day, so to boost my mood I went to my local artists supply and got myself a nice little gift. A COPIC Multiliner 0.1 and a square sketchbook.

I have been lusting after this kind of pen for 2 years now. I've had come across them for the first time in my Manga phase. Then last year I've had them in my shopping basket time and again, and time and again I put them back on the shelf. Yesterday was the big day. It took me a while to decide the size, but I think 0.1 is just perfect for me at this moment, I can buy smaller later on.

The sketchbook was due to the fact that I want to do a certain project and for this I need a square sketchbook with real bookbinding. All my other sketchbooks are ring bound and not squares. I admit I have a crush on square paper. DIN A sizes are just too normal and remind me to much of writing paper. By now I have as much square paper pads as I have DIN A papers. And I really prefer to draw on squares.

Left side binding paper brilliant white, right side drawing paper.

And I prefer paper that is not brilliant white. Drawing paper for schoolkids is always this extreme white. No wonder I never liked arts class at school. The brilliant white of copypaper hurts the eyes, well, my eyes at least. And copy paper or school drawing paper is lacking structure. Seriously, it's no fun at all.

But I've got tons of funstuff now, so I'm going to use it.

Have a great day.

Happy Memories for Chris and Moi: 8th post - Detail of Nietzsches Church

Since Chris asked me to post a few more Leipzig photos this week because she is so homesick for Leipzig, I created this post series for her. I hope this comforts you a bit.

Another shot from our trip to Röcken. This is a detail shot of one of the churches windows. As I said it was a Sunday with perfect conditions for photography.

Nature's colors vs. human grey

Enjoy your Sunday everyone.

Perspective

I'm currently changing my perspectives quite a lot. For instance I never used a personal budget to reach my goals, but since yesterday I'm working on my 2012 budget. Yesterday I drew up the rough draft and today I'm tweaking it so that it fits my goals for 2012. This way I'll know if I'm on track to my goals or if I lost orientation. Do you draw up a yearly budget?

Perfect light and architecture combined in Lomography

The church in Wolkenburg again. I just love what the fisheye did to the column. 

Enjoy your weekend. You definitely deserved it.

Looking up the Münster of Basel

Good morning everyone.

I hope all of you had a wonderful and relaxing weekend. I certainly did. With a grande Starbucks Java Chip Chocolate Cream Frappuccino, two hours of browsing in a bookstore to finally find an interesting read ("Lunch in Paris" by Elizabeth Bard. I love browsing in bookstores, Amazon is nice, but it can't replace the feel of real books or a bookstore.), making plans for the near and far future (getting new shelfspace from IKEA this week, buying a few good polo shirts on sale and buying a new and very good vacuum cleaner later this year {The one I own now is absolute crap, it really does more harm then good. It creates nothing but hot, dusty air and puts any jet engine to shame with its decibel-levels. ugh}) and a Sunday afternoon filled with creating artwork.

Have a wonderful week everyone.

Distorted Münster of Basel