Master Study - Norman Rockwell

I found some of practice sketches yesterday while cleaning up my desk and in that i found this study of Master artist Norman Rockwell's Gossip Faces. I remember while doing that I made a note to self 'I need to work on proportions, this is something that always troubles me'. i still haven't learned.. pff

Once upon a time in Berlin

I went to the city aquarium, one of the best in the world. I must say they have an amazing variety of fish there. Its a pity that some of them are so huge and their tanks are so small. I am always left with  a sad feeling in the end, that they are caged for the rest of their life. I hope one day they can all break free and head back to their homelands unhurt and safe. And their leader would be  none other than the queen of the mudskippers - HRH Empress Olga. Never underestimate the size. 

Plen air sketch 2

The second weekend with a sunny sun in March, pretty nice start.

This time i wanted to sketch something from the schloss park which is close to my place.I kind of wandered around the park, although i knew few places inside which i thought of sketching. But today there were quite a lot of people and I wasn't sure somehow.I eventually settled beside this path along the river. The sun was shimmering through the leaves at a very low angle. I thought i could paint exactly as i see, but then i ended up with this. Still not there with colour mixing and prespective. But this is what i plan to improve over this summer. 

Spring is here, so is plenn air

So it has finally arrived,  the wait for clear blue skies felt like ages somehow. This winter was a bit hard to survive. 4 months of non stop grey skies can hardly cheerful. But as the clouds cleared and the sun came out, I couldn't stop my self to go out and start sketching.This year i have told myself to sketch atleast once every weekend. so here comes the first one.Its part of the Kraftwerk  Charlottenberg  complex.( Charlottenberg Powerstation).