The concept of
urban sketchers was developed by the Spanish artist
Gabriel Campanario now living in Seattle. Urban sketchers accepts only on site drawing, nothing from postcards or photos.
It is a matter of exercise and discipline and I must admit it is also fun sitting somewhere and just sketch the whole scenery.
The urban sketchers network is growing and has now over 1500 members.
For Bremen I would appreciate it very much if we could build up our Bremen group. If you are interested please visit
Urban Sketchers Bremen at flickr.com.
Here are some of the sketches I did. They are published on my flickr account
http://www.flickr.com/photos/manfredschloesser/ I am using a moleskine book and a simple pen. Sometimes I add some color from my mini water color set. And sometimes I am experimenting with
my new livescribe pen.15 May 2010
Emily O´Marra Portrait. My contribution to Julia Kay´s Portrait Party at Flickr.com (
http://www.flickr.com/groups/portraitparty/pool/)14 May 2010
14 May 2010
The Vogelpark Walsrode is the world´s largest Bird show. Located south of Bremen it is just 30 Minutes by car. Today we made our first visit- amazing!
www.weltvogelpark.de/
Sketch on Moleskine paper
Zeichnung auf Papier (Moleskine)May 2010
Nagelritz is a German comedian playing a sailor with all his problems when he is not at sea. Great singer, guitar player and pianist, too.
www.nagelritz.deApril 2010 Experiments with my Livescribe pen
Livescribe pen: Kids at play
Livescribe pen: This biergarten serves the best meals for the hungry cyclists and canoeists. Dammsiel is on the Wuemme river.This is also a sketch done with the livescribe pen...
March 2010 Trip to Valencia and Alicante
Our visit in Spain in Spring 2010. We took the train from Altea to Benidorm and travelled further on to Vilajoyosa or Villa Joyosa. The old beach front houses are painted in different colors and they have rebuilt the promenade. Very nice town definitely worth a visit.
11 March 2010
Altea yacht harbor. On our trip to Spain in March 2010 we visited Altea, Valencia and other places. It was too cold.
Benidorm: This is a real suprise, rather a shock. This city was built in the 70s and 80s.
8 August 2009 The new harbor in Bremerhaven has developed quite a lot
.
8 August 2009 Abser Siel is a very tiny little harbor, more a mud hole on the left bank of the river Weser. At low tide the boats literally sink into the mud.
4 August 2009Findorff is a small quarter in Bremen near to the Buergerpark. In the 19th century workers transported the turf from the wetland via canals to this part of the town. Nowadays on the corner of Admiral and Hemmstrasse you can enjoy the best Italian ice cream north of Italy.
4 August 2009The Europahafen is becoming a new attraction. The city of Bremen is playing with a novel idea for this area. Restaurants, offices, and appartements in the former harbor are now being built.
1 August 2009The small harbor of Elsfleth is on the left bank of the river Weser north of Bremen. It is behind a watergate. Depending on draft of your boat you better do not enter at low tide.The sill of the lock is unvisible and made of strong steel. Our own small sailing boat is an H Boat with a draft of 1,30 Meter.
31 July 2009The most exclusive hotel in Bremen is in the Buergerpark (Citizens´Park).. I think they have 5 stars.
1 July 2009After a hot day the people are enjoying an evening on the banks of the river Wuemme, a small river meandering through the meadows north of Bremen. Sitting next to us was an extended family with grandfather, grandmother, aunt, mother and little son (4 years?). The restaurant Zur Schleuse with its typical Reet roof (thatched roof) is named after the watergate (Schleuse). It is specialised on local food like Knipp which is basically a poor man´s meal de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knipp_(Speise). But now it became quite hip and expensive. We used our canoe to go downstream with the tide, had our meal and paddled back with the tide coming in.
23 June 2009The Rolandmühle in Bremen is one of the old brick buildings in the Timber Harbor (Holzhafen) of Bremen. It was one of these perfect evenings. The sun was setting and we were drinking our Weizenbier watching the scenery.On 6 February 1979 the Roland Mill was on fire after an explosion due to the ignition of dust of flour.
February 2009
28 February 2009: This was the game Werder Bremen against FC Milan and Beckham.... Ink on paper (moleskine)
