Summer Day

Passing By Today

On a very hot day. And they probably had to go all the way up the curvy Albis ridge road to home. 

Swiss Place

With Mountain 

God’s Art

Blooms in Pink

While One Waits, One Draws

Sloppy sketch done in the times between loading laundry machines:

God’s Art

Flora and Fauna

Mine. All mine. 

Attack the intruder!

And off he went. 

Energy Bites

For my soldier

Chocolate, bit of butter, ground coconut, ground almonds, bit of coconut milk, mixed seeds, touch of salt, cinnamon, ginger, cloves.

What is your recipe? 

Art Yes, But...

I can’t show it.

But how about a summer birthday party under a vine-y bower?

Better Half’s birthday with Oma’s Carrot Cake, this time made by the next generation. 

Swiss Views 4

On the Rocks

In the Rocks

Planter Pot, Life Drawing

Drew a planter pot I saw outside. It looks almost better on the page than it does in real life, haha, because I couldn't satisfactorily replicate the peeling faux-whatever all over it. Was pretty fun to play with these textures and shapes, though!

wip

I remembered to take a WIP photo, would you look at that!? Also, this was a quick and sloppy job that actually took barely an hour. *gasp* Apparently I can finish a drawing in fewer than 60 minutes.

Swiss Views 3

More Ballenberg

This is an Open Air museum of historic architecture and handwork.

A Bernese style farmhouse.

More Swiss Views

Midlands and Ballenberg

Swiss Views

Solothurn

Watercolor 489

Floral

Watercolor 488

Colors

I have been working on acrylic spot illustrations for a book promotion, but can’t show them. You will see them later. 

A Life Drawing

Excursion 2

Gardens and Farm

This next collection of pictures are from the lower part – down the hill – of the facility, with in the town proper. 

(I have not figured out how to put any order into the pictures in this new blog system, without a very laborious one-by-one retrieval, so, again, excuse the disorder, please.)

This is the main barn seen from the pigsty.

This is from the herb bed.

This is the historic building that is the heart of the care centre.

A pair of storks used to nest on the little brew house of the farm, but the person living upstairs did not like the noise the birds made on the roof, so chased them away. Now a pair, maybe the same ones, are living on top of this unused smoke stack in the town.

The eating but non-edible part of the livestock.

Edible livestock

Comfortable, camouflaged livestock

An ancient breed of Swiss chicken, the white ones with black spots.

A map of the whole place

Medicinal flowers

The End