It was like a miracle when today the rain stopped that poured down since days, the clouds vanished, and the sun came out. I love the rain, but after a while it’s enough. From time to time you have to dry your things. Daily Painting about sun 18 August 2010, 8:12 Sonnenkönig, Aquarell auf Postkarte, 14,5 x 10,5 cm
I should have known … 1st potential owners for the puppy I take care for and I bought the wrong food. You can’t imagine the caustic gases this little dog farts. Would it be conspicuous when they visit her and I pull gas masks on them? Daily Painting about air 17 August 2010, 7:50 Ich bin die Gefangene meiner Winde, Aquarell auf Zeichnung und Klebeband, 19 x 23 cm
Dear Pencil, I know that you have a hard life in my studio. Every day I take you and force you to draw line after line without pause. Now I want to thank you for your efforts. I see that you are exhausted when you cry your wooden tears. Daily Painting about pencils 16 August 2010, 7:59 Die Tränen vom Bleistift, Aquarell mit Bleistift und Holzspänen, 18 x 24 cm
Rain the whole day. I took the opportunity to relax a little bit after this week and to look after the animals. It was too dark to work efficiently and so I would have had the opportunity to read a book – when the bladder of the puppy would have allowed this. Daily Painting about chilling 15 August 2010, 8:00 Vom Abhängen, Aquarell, 17,5 x 25,5 cm
It’s a shame that the donations for Pakistan are so few. After the earthquake in Haiti everybody was excited, special broadcasts on TV, big shows, millions were collected – quite rightly. And now? Wrong religion? In the end we’re all in the same boat. Daily Painting about boats 14 August 2010, 8:13 Ohne Titel (Menschen in Boot), Aquarell, 32 x 24 cm
Since centuries women visit the old matrons temple in the eifel. Now a house will be build on it to improve the touristic development. It looks a bit like a history peep show. The old trick: You have to put women into a cage if you want to earn money with them. Daily Painting about holy women 13 August 2010, 7:55 Matronis Aufanamibus, Aquarell, 19,7 x 24 cm
Emergency call from a friend: a varnisher gave a puppy as a present to his mother. She is 75 years old and went crazy about the little dog, now she is in hospital. Would I take the puppy for a few days? I would. Daily Painting about dogs 10 August 2010, 7:43 Achtung, aufgepaßt!, Aquarell, 22 x 15,7 cm
Today was International Day of the cat. Somehow my animals heared about that and were totally obnoxious. They stepped with dirty feet on my fresh watercolours, vomited stinky batches of something on the feet of our guests and terrorised the dogs. Who invented this day?!? Daily Painting about animals 8 August 2010, 7:59 Wie Hund und Katze, Aquarell mit Tusche und Bleistift, 17,4 x 21 cm
Today a journalist called: silly season, he said, do you have anything spectacular? I had, the new book about the Eifel found his interest. But isn’t it funny that the newspapers call me when they haven’t got any news? Maf, the News Insurance! Daily Painting about summer slump 6 August 2010, 7:18 Nach dem Frühling – das Sommerloch, Aquarell, 32 x 24 cm
The news from Pakistan are so horrible. When will the people in this region get finally peace? Assassinations, poverty, hunger, religious and political conflicts and now the flood. I silence; every comment seems almost cynical to me. Daily Painting about flood 5 August 2010, 7:52 Wetterwand und Wasserstand, Aquarell, 16 x 17 cm