Liberia Masks

Show depot at the Rietberg today. Very interesting shapes with these masks.

Office Stuff

Had to be at work this saturday. Nobody around!

Iranian Mace and Axe Heads

Cool stuff at the show depot of the Rietberg museum today!

House

Could not leave my desk the whole day. So I sketched the house on the other side of the street when I had a bit of time. No proper finish on this one. I will revisit later this building when I have more time.

Swiss Kitchen objects

Filled up a page of objects from my kitchen. Here are the two best:

The classical swiss fondue kit, every self respecting swiss household has one in his kitchen.

The Crepe Party, not so swiss. Very convenient if you have friends coming over. 

Sow and Piglets

Ikea has a very nice collection of cloth farm animals. My son happens to be in possession of the complete set. Here are mommy pigs  and here three piglets.

I understood too late that the Stabilo 88 are not waterproof!

Electricity

Aimless page today. Started in a waiting room finished at my desk. Cross hatched here and there without much conviction. Tomorrow will be a better sketching day.

Bath Clown fish

Like every Thursday, no opportunity to visit a museum or any interesting place. Played around with water color. This is my best attempt today. 

First full month of sketch-a-day. No problem so far, just have to handle the fact that some days are less satisfying than others in terms of quality.

Völkerkundemuseum

Visited the Völkerkundemusuem today. A museum about antrophology. Only two small temporary exhibitions. Not much to draw. Didn't quite understand what the stuffed bird and squirell were doing there.  Not to be recommended for sketching.

Urgeschichte Museum Zug

Did a page at the "Museum für Urgeschicthe(n)" in Zug. Mostly archeological stuff from stone age till the roman periodthey. The museum is very well done but from a sketching perspective, there is nothing very interesting to draw. The museum was closed when I came in so while waiting I sketched an industrial building from early 1900. Irrelevant trivia: the company who owned the building, Landys & Gyr, recently got bought by Toshiba. On the technical side, one of the problem I have is putting the shadows correctly. Some objects are ok but others are a train wreck. Will work on that. In theory, it's simple.

Encouraged by Steve, I also attempted some watercolor today.

These are again toys from my son. Didn't know what I was doing, the staedtler pen started to bleed but overall, I am very happy with the results.  

Pistols

Very short session at the Landesmuseum. Didn't have time to do much. Those pistols are work of art and I am looking forward to re attempt them next week. I was puzzled by the flintlock mechanism. Not simple to draw and since I dont understand how it works, it's difficult to simplify. The Handmöser was quite impressive, apparently, this handgun shoots canon ball sized bullet.

Plush Toys

A couple of popular plush toys laying around.

Papua New Guinea Objects

Short visit at the Rietberg museum to sketch objects from Papua New Guinea. Was slowed down by the Uli figure head which was quite complex to handle. That's a type of form I'll need to practice separately if I want to do more statues in the future. I completely botched the bracelet but had a lot of fun on the sort of paddle. These sketches are from the show depot where a lot of objects are presented in bulk. It's a sketching goldmine but unfortunately the objects are not labeled and it's sometime difficult to figure out what it is.

Stuff from the Zürich Top Team

I came a bit earlier to training at the Zurich Top Team and sketched what was laying around. There were some complicated shapes. Not my best day ;).

Elephant water pistole

Thursday is always a busy day. Could only do these quick sketches of an elphant water pistole.  Thought it was going to be easy but I was wrong ;)

Double spout and bridge vessels

Sketched Nazcan vessels at the Rietberg today. Beautiful forms and decoration. Concentrated on the shapes, which were tricky.

Pocket Toys

Put several doodles of pocket toys together on a single page.

African masks

Had a short sketching session at the awesome Rietberg collection. Drew two african masks. Beautiful and alien shapes.

Had problems to keep the proportions/shapes between the different views consisten and had false starts with the first mask. For some reason, I could not get consistent shadows/lighting on the second one.. This was my first visit at the museum but I will definitely come back. They have a lot of interesting things to draw.

13th-15th Century Weapons

Went to the swiss national museum and sketched medieval weapons.  The room I sketched had a lot of "classical" swiss weapons, i.e halberds and crossbows. Fun stuff to draw but I am not too happy about the accuracy of the sketches, it seems I could not hit the the lines with enough confidence!

I used white pencil on some objects to increase the contrast. It doesnt look so bad, better than when I try to use gel pen.