"vor ort" in mainz, germany

I was invited by jenny adam and the landesmuseum of mainz, germany, to participate to the urban sketching workshop and exhibition "vor ort" featuring marina grechanik, johanna krimmel, inma serrano, sebastian koch, sebastian lörscher, felix scheinberger and myself.
during 10 days, I taught extreme perspective, sketched the city and learn from the other instructors. the stunning exhibition is running until the 2nd of september, don't miss it!

thank you so much jenny for this great encounter!

workshop in germany

Hallo Freunde!
"Vor Ort" is an exhibition and a workshop project organized and hosted by Landesmuseum Mainz and Jenny Adam in association with Urban Sketchers.
I´m happy to say that I’ll be there teaching with such a group of great sketchers and friends: Marina Grechanik, Sebastian Koch, Johanna Krimmel and Inma Serrano.

Join us here!

following is a short description of my workshop: “All you can see! 180º sketching”

Our way to represent the space since « Renacimiento » is conditioned to a maximum 30º viewing angle, which is very limited compared to what we are experiencing while sitting in a place, turning the head, and looking up and down. That’s how I started sketching some curvilinear perspective in a very intuitive way, exploring how to represent a scene as in a sphere or as in a cylinder.
But I’m also used to fit the elements of a scene into the page, making some distortions, or adding the soundtracks of what I’m hearing while sketching, from the people that are talking to me, to the ringing bells from the church behind, or music of a car passing by…
We will explore how to represent a panoramic view in a narrow street, telling the particular mood of the place. In spite of looking only at the architecture, the sketchers will aim to represent a 180º view fitting the people, the street activity and listening to what is happening.

urban sketchbook germany band I

look at what I get in my mailbox: the new collective book “urban sketchbook band I” from germany featuring some of my sketches made in germany. wunderbar!
"urban sketchbook – band 1", published by jüli verlag, 180 pages, 25€.

schwalbe

exhibition in frankfurt am main on 23rd of june

see you next thursday at 18:00 at kombinatrotweiss gallery, grosse rittergasse 33, frankfurt am main, for the opening of my exhibition "entdeckungreise um die welt". bis bald!

frei5stil

my illustrations are featured in the german book frei5til, a compilation of contemporary illustrators.

museum sinsheim

I spent a day at the auto & technik museum sinsheim in germany earlier this month.
it was rainy and cold, so I can't sketch the planes outside.
I focus on the german micro cars, here is what I've done there…

bmw museum in münchen

"ich bin französisch"

I was interviewed for the german television "ARD" for a program called "so tickt europa" about my vision of barcelona (in the first minutes).
here is the drawing I did during the interview, in front of the "palau de la musica":

and the portrait of the journalists:

vielen dank joana und mathias!

"café de l'europe" in baden-baden

I was invited to sketch the 4th "café de l'europe" in baden-baden (south germany) a few days ago.
here is a selection of my sketches of this famous thermal town.

kombinatrotweiss

I'm proud to announce that I have a new agent in germany called kombinatrotweiss!
check out for more info!