Sometimes you think you are finished and you don’t know which way to go. Then it is time to sit down and think about the situation. And now you can jump into the cold water. Daily Painting about the end of the flagpole 17 Dezember 2009, 8:00 Am Ende der Fahnenstange, Aquarell, 17 x 16 cm
Special weather in the Eifel: everywhere is sunshine, but not here: it snows! Same as always: you have rain, we have sun or vice versa. That’s the Eifel: it’s different. Charming, beautiful, but different. Daily Painting is about icemen, oh boy, it’s really cold! 16 Dezember 2009, 7:29 3 Eisheilige in Position, Aquarell, 25 x 23 cm
This was a wonderful but wild day with lots of people visiting me. I only wished, the rest of the world would stop and give me the time to enjoy them all. So I feeled a little bit like swimming in a maelstrom. Daily Painting about lifeguards 15 Dezember 2009, 8:22 Rettungsschwimmer, Aquarell, 32 x 24 cm
In these days I often think about all these animals that end in our pots and ovens – the millions of geese, chickens, salmons. But when I watch how they live and how they die I loose my appetite. Daily Painting about chickens 14 Dezember 2009, 7:54 Zum Sterben zu schön, Aquarell, 16 x 17 cm
This is the third sunday in advent, isn’t it? So I should light three candles, but instead I post 3 tiny advent paintings for your personal internet wreath 13 Dezember 2009, 7:52 Ich zeichne mein Leben in Eis, Aquarell, 13 x 8 cm Let’s talk about sex, baby! Sometimes that doesn’t work, Aquarell, 6,2 x 3,5 cm Thank you, Aquarell, 12,8 x 8,5 cm
Artists are polluters, I know. The best materials are the worst. But on this day, when thousands of people demonstrate for a change in global policy, I will post my solidarity with a special Daily Painting. Be brave! 12 Dezember 2009, 8:03 Kleines Klimaschutzdenkmal, Aquarell, 17,5 x 17 cm
In radio they said the snow line is at 400 meters. With my house standing at the side of a hill at exactly 400 meters, this should mean it snows at one side of the house and rains on the other. And believe it or not, this is exactly what always happens. Daily Painting about the snow line 11 Dezember 2009, 7:41 Schneefallgrenze, Aquarell, 17 x 21 cm
They say it will snow on Saturday. The winter starts! But wasn’t it yesterday when the leaves turned yellow and I sat in my garden talking to the anemones? Daily Painting about the autumn running faster than a lifetime. 10 Dezember 2009, 7:25 Der 7 Meilenherbst, Aquarell, 29 x 21 cm
Today I sacrificed my time to the steam coming out of oven and cooking pots. Soups and cookies, pasta and more – now I’m tired but I’m satisfied. I just took time to make a Daily Painting about love and pleasure found in meals 9 Dezember 2009, 7:56 Liebe aus dem Suppentopf, Aquarell, 25 x 22 cm
Every year it’s the same: in December you are flooded with blinky lights, fake Father Christmasses and every kind of intolerability you can imagine. Daily Painting about an angel that offers you a bottomless box to hide in 7 Dezember 2009, 7:45 Das alltägliche Engels-Unwesen, Aquarell und Bleistift , 30 x 20,5 cm