Journey With Watercolors

This is done sitting in a park that is close to home. On almost every sunny day, i go with my kid to this park in the evenings. Also a place for people to play cricket on weekends. Recently, we had a good gathering of telugu people for grilling. The below view is to one side of a park.

Here is the view of the Speicherstadt from the utside of the maritime museum. Speicherstadt is the largest warehouse district in the world and is an UNESCO world heritage site. Done on 10*6 inches arches travel journal.  

A watercolor sketch of the anthurium plant that i recently gifted to my wife for her birthday. It took me long to get back to paper and brushes. Also missed the recent urban sketchers meet that would have pushed me to paint.

While the Workshop with Ernst restarted my journey with watercolors, it is the Urban Sketching that has kept it going. I have come to know of this Urban sketching concept in 2016 and joined the local urban sketchers group in October of that year. I saw the monthly meetings being organised in the city where the interested people just get together at a specific location and sketch. I thought that was a fantastic idea to get the people with the same interest together. Being an introvert in addition to the language barrier, i could not take the leap to join the meetings. But in the workshop with Ernst , i have experienced the joy of painting outdoors and was as well able to converse enough in German. After coming back from the workshop, i attended the sketch crawl orgainsed in Buxtehude, a small town near Hamburg where an art fair was as well being held on that weekend. I was very much excited to be attending it while at the same had a lot of anxiety. I was not sure if i would be able...