Last Saturday I managed to catch only the Questions and Answers section of Rafa Alvarez´s talk "illustrating with ipad" in the new Apple Store Berlin

due to christmas preparation panic. I found it very interseting none the less 

and was happy to get the opportunity to leaf through his great sketch book 

and do a sketch of my own.

Letzten Samstag habe ich nur die Fragen und Antworte teil von 

Rafa Alvarez Rede "illustrating with ipad" in der neu Apple Store Berlin geschafft zu sehen, 

wegen ein Verspätung von Weihnachts Vorbereitung, ich hab mich trotzdem gefreut, sein tolle 

skizzen buch zu sehen und auch der Möglichkeit zu haben selbst einer zu machen.

kollegen, colleagues

Holiday                                                                                   Romina

collection sleeping workers on the train

Recently sketched sleeping workers and people on the train mostly on the 6.30am

Neulich skizziert schlafenden Arbeiter in denZug, meistens auf 7.30

Introductory post to Urban sketchers

hard to get comfortable 

Irish Girl Guides

Hi all, I`ve done some illustration which appears in the the link below it was recorded and entered into Irelands "better together" competion by a friend of mine Kathrine Ryan on behalf of The Irish Girl Guides. They have  been helping young women grow in confidence in Ireland for over 100 years (established in 1911) what i would love for you to do is please follow the link and vote for the 2 minute entry to the support the work the Irish girl guides, they and I would be very grateful, Thanks.

http://www.bettertogether.ie/video/irish-girl-guides-growing-better-together

here is the process from rough pencils to inked work to finished watercolour on 110grm paper 

 

and the some of the original finished peices for the clip

Lady birds 

Brownies 

siemens schläft schon

Justus Delbrück Haus Jamlitz

Justus Delbrück Haus in Jamlitz is a recently renovated train station located 29km from the polish border. It served as a public train station until 1958 replete with guest house and pub. after this time it was used by the central committee of the DDR to transport goods and soldiers to the nearby military training grounds until finally being decommissioned in 1998.
 During the time of national socialism the train station and surrounding area served as an internment/work camp, a satellite to the larger Sachsenhausen concentration camp. It is said to be a site of mass murder from this time. Justus Delbrück himself was a Berlin lawyer who opposed the National socialist and died in Jamlitz camp in October 1945.
Since 2008 the Station has been in the possession of the Berlin youth agency Karuna eg who have brought new life and purpose to what had become an over grown ruin. the building now functions as a youth camp or respite centre. the debate between the "Brandenburg Memorials Foundation" and Karuna eg over the appropriateness of such a location being used for such a purpose continues.