Stockrosen - hollyhocks

I love hollyhocks, they are so pretty :) Some day on the internet I found a photo of them behind a nice fence. I thought that could be nice to try to draw and paint it. And so I did :) It just turned a bit too light, when I tried to get rid of that grey paper. Why does the whitest paper always look grey on photos? I'll never understand... :)

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And here are the promised pictures of the harbour from the day of the Nivea beach party.

It was so hot that day, even in the harbour I couldn't take more than just a couple of minutes. So I went to see if I could find a nice shady place to sit and cool down. Found it under an umbrella of a cafe. And I had something real nice to drink - an ice coffee :) No, not the american version (iced coffee - coffee with ice cubes in it), we Germans don't like watered down coffee and we also love some calories every now and then ;) This is refrigerated coffee, some vanilla ice cream in it and whipped cream on top. Yummie! :))

And while I sat there and watched other people, I thought that I could give it a try

to draw some of what I saw there. You'll get to see the result in my next post :))

This is taken from inside the bus on my way home. There were shadow people glued to the windows,

I thought that should make a nice photo :))

So, that's it for a little while, I have to take a break from blogging, because I've got some visitors.

But with them I'll get to go and see some other places, so there will be plenty of pictures to show after then :)) 

Have a happy time! :))