Happy New Year!

Merry Christmas

Corrections

I did this illustration for a latin textbook, but then I thought, the horses yokes seemed a bit too modern to me...

So I gave it a little redo following more recent reconstructions

Christmas Woodchopper Pt. 2

Christmas Market

I saw this fellow hacking wood for a sort of traditional bakery on the Christmas Market in Essen. Unfortunately for him the place was rather small and he seemed not to be used to such kind of labor, all dressed up in a traditional bakers dress. But as it was so cold that he hardly could warm up with the exercise so he wore a huge modern hoodie below...

More artists in the dark

I did these sketches at a Motörhead show some time ago. I don't recall where. But we were all freezing...

Cinematic Work

Yesterday a filme I worked on here and there over the past months premiered. It is a docu-info-fiction-drama called Krefeld, Geheimnisse der Seidenstadt. The Movie promotes the different forms of industries based in the former city of silk and discloses a lot of secrets to a wider audience. My brother Stefan played the major character, a "star guide", that leads the viewer through the movie. It was created by Matthias Heuser and Mica Crossmedia. I supplied eight pictures showing an outlook on what the city of Krefeld might look like in three hundred years from now...

Little Me in the crowd on stage after the movie

me on the left and my brother, the main actor

All pictures are copyrighted by Mica Crossmedia, Krefeld, Germany

Artists in the Dark

Between 1982 and late 1987 I worked as a stagehand with Blitz Music. Amongst many artists it was working for Motörhead that was most interesting. After ending my work in the concert business I lost track with them before went to see them in 1991 again. The crew was kind of puzzled why I payed for to see the band and their sound engineer Dave "Hobbs" Hillesden invited me for the coming years to go and see them from the Mixing Desk. In the coming years I did do many drawings of the crew doing their work before and during the shows.

Arnie 

Arnie

stefan

I still do it every time I get to see the guys! These pictures, drawn on an iPad 2 show Stefan on the lighting mixer, and Arnie on the sound-mixingdesk. They are both excellent artists in their own right who bring the shows to the audience's senses. And they were great last night in Düsseldorf, Germany.

When the Work's all Done This Fall

Just saw this guy on my way to the post office, when I remembered the Old Song by Carl T. Sprague...

Mourning Crowd for Lady Diana

Just flipped through an old sketchbook. I found this drawing I did on August 31st 1997. We were in London the day Lady Diana died in Paris. Somebody told us that there was a huge crowd in front of Kensington Palace. So we went over and this is what it was like. Not so big a crowd but rather puzzled in disbelief...

A test for a coverart

a short test for a children's book

Sketching at Starbucks

Yesterday at Starbucks

Bob Wayne in Essen

Bob Wayne and his Outlaw Carnies played a great Show in the Soul Hell Cafe in Essen last night

Jared on Bass

Liz on Fiddle

Bob on Acoustic Guitar an Vocals

and Mac on Electric Guitar

Old Woman in a Cafe

Before we went over to see the exhibition we went into a local cafe in Herne, where I saw this old Lady on a table next to ours

Herne, Germany

The last guided tour (musically accompanied by Michael Völkel) through an exhibition about what happened in Archaeology in North-Rhine-Westfalia over the past 5 years

Leo walks

been around with this tis fellow for some time this weekend....

Acrylic Sketch

Some traditional media sketch for an upcoming project for the APX, an archaeological park on the grounds of the ancient city Coulnia Ulpia Ttraiana on the banks of the lower Rhine.

Tennessee

Tennessse is one of the members of the "Texas Rangers" Duesseldorf/Germany

A B/W illustration for a children's detektive story

ipad sketch

yeah, you can really paint on an iPad... , though it feels a bit clumsy

A little Artwork now an then...

As my iWeb blog will be discontinued soon, I take the chance to open up this little blog here...