Yesterday we celebrated 10 years of #uskdortmund with a sketchday at Phoenix West and in the green Gartenstadt with many nice people. ✨☺️ #pleinair #Dortmund #Ruhrgebiet #uskdo #urbansketching #urbansketchers #sketchbook #FineArt #art #kleineKunstklasse

Yesterday Celebrating 10 years of USkDo with a Sketchday: Our local urban sketching chapter's 10th birthday. Sketching Phoenix-West and in the Gartenstadt neighborhood #urbansketchers #usk #uskdortmund

12. Mai 2026 .mis.placed.me. #diarycomics #autobiocomics #comics #perimenopause

Thursday's meetup of #uskdortmund on Silberstraße with its beautiful mix of different architectural styles. I had chosen the colorful facade of the @djh_dortmund #pleinair #Dortmund #Ruhrgebiet #uskdo #urbansketching #urbansketchers #sketchbook #FineArt #art #kleineKunstklasse

Thursday's meetup of #uskdortmund at the entrance to the Kampstraße subway station. As always, too many loud people around. It remains difficult for me. 😐 #pleinair #Dortmund #Ruhrgebiet #uskdo #urbansketching #urbansketchers #coloredpencildrawing #sketchbook #FineArt #art #kleineKunstklasse

8. Mai 2026. .mis.placed.me #diarycomic #perimenopause

Urban Sketching in Dortmund: Kampstraße. Yesterday evening. (Finally the last page of this sketchbook- I think I prefer smooth paper after all) #urbansketchers #dortmund #uskdo

29. April 2026 .mis.placed.me #diarycomic #perimenopause

Thursday evening #uskdortmund #urbansketching: not in the city center but in Mengede this time. Always harder to draw a crowd of people moving around the whole time...

The first after-work market in #Dortmund Mengede. And #uskdortmund were a part of it. 🤗🎨 I sketched on location and finished my drawing at home. #Ruhrgebiet #uskdo #urbansketching #urbansketchers #watercolor #coloredpencildrawing #sketchbook #FineArt #art #kleineKunstklasse

Sunday sketching with #uskdortmund in Rombergpark. Looking up. At the sky inside the poplar tree circle. (A bit sad it just looks like generic trees in my sketch.)

#naturesketching by #uskdortmund on Sunday.🌞 We had chosen the poplar toboggan run in Rombergpark. The azaleas were in bloom and many crows were circling in the sky. #Dortmund #Ruhrgebiet #pleinair #urbansketching #urbansketchers #pleinair #watercolor #sketchbook #FineArt #art #kleineKunstklasse

Thursday evening #uskdortmund #urbansketching: Alter Markt. New sketchbook (well actually just an old one I'm filling up) and I'm not used to the rough paper and smaller format anymore.

During Thursday's meetup of #uskdortmund I first noticed the delicate facade painting when looking east. It depicts the Nordsternhaus of the Union Brewery, built on this site in 1907, destroyed in WWII. #Dortmund #Ruhrgebiet #uskdo #urbansketching #urbansketchers #FineArt #art #kleineKunstklasse

Thursday's meetup of #uskdortmund at Propsteihof. Impulse control exercise for Cleo 🦮: successful. Concentration exercise for me 🧠: failed. #pleinair #Dortmund #Ruhrgebiet #uskdo #urbansketching #urbansketchers #coloredpencildrawing #sketchbook #FineArt #art #kleineKunstklasse

Thursday evening #uskdortmund #urbansketching : Propsteikirche

.misplaced.me 15. April

Thursday's meetup of #uskdortmund I quickly realized that the perspective of the 'Corso Passage' was overwhelming me. Luckily, the jogger with the small, fluffy dog ​​appeared. 🤗 #Dortmund #Ruhrgebiet #uskdo #urbansketching #urbansketchers #watercolor #sketchbook #FineArt #art #kleineKunstklasse

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Thursday evening #urbansketching in Dortmund. Adlerturm and cherry blossoms (or whatever kind of prunus trees those are). From next week on - with summer time - there'll be no more sun sets to watch... #usk #uskdo #uskdortmund #urbansketchers

Small but excellent Thursday's meetup of #uskdortmund at Adlerturm. It was very cold, but the evening sky was beautiful. #Dortmund #Ruhrgebiet #uskdo #urbansketching #urbansketchers #graphitedrawing #sketchbook #FineArt #art #kleineKunstklasse

Thursday's meetup of #uskdortmund at Friedensplatz. I was dissatisfied because the picture was too pale for me. That's why I painted around in it some more at home. #Dortmund #Ruhrgebiet #uskdo #urbansketching #urbansketchers #watercolor #sketchbook #FineArt #art #kleineKunstklasse

#uskdortmund #urbansketching Thursday evening sketching on the Friedensplatz. (Still getting dark and cold in the evening.) Last page of my big A4 sketchbook. So back to a smaller one next time.

Thursday's meetup of #uskdortmund It was very windy and I was freezing again, but it was still lovely. 🌸 #Dortmund #Ruhrgebiet #uskdo #urbansketching #urbansketchers #watercolor #sketchbook #FineArt #art #kleineKunstklasse

#uskdortmund Thursday evening #urbansketching again. First flowering trees in the city center with the Rathaus in the background and a sketcher friend doing her thing in the foreground.

Endlich Mal wieder eine Tagebuch-Comicseite geschafft. Inklusive Schmierereien, Staub auf dem Scanner und anderen Unperfektheiten. Egal. Hauptsache mal wieder eine Seite geschafft.

Thursday evening #uskdortmund #urbansketching : just a tree with a birds nest in it.

Thursday's meetup of #uskdortmund between Reinoldikirche and Marienkirche. Nearly everything in #Dortmund is under construction, I think. 🤔 #Ruhrgebiet #uskdo #urbansketching #urbansketchers #watercolor #sketchbook #FineArt #art #kleineKunstklasse

Thursday evening 6 o'clock #uskdortmund #urbansketching just like every week. This time outside, watching the sun go down and the moon up in the sky, light getting less and less and sketching whatever: Bib and stuff.

Thursday's meetup of #uskdortmund View towards the City and State Library. I actually wanted to draw people passing by. But it got dark quickly. #Dortmund #Ruhrgebiet #uskdo #urbansketching #urbansketchers #coloredpencildrawing #sketchbook #FineArt #art #kleineKunstklasse

Last two weeks of Thursday evening #uskdortmund #urbansketching : still hiding inside (Thier-Galerie and U-Bahn station Westentor), cause it's still dark and cold outside... and no patience for sketching.

Typical February weather... so we looked for a warm place again. Thursday's meetup of #uskdortmund inside the shopping mall 'Thier-Galerie'. Much too noisy for me. 😒 So I stopped drawing. #Dortmund #Ruhrgebiet #uskdo #urbansketching #urbansketchers #penandink #FineArt #art #kleineKunstklasse

Thursday evening #urbansketching in Dortmund: warm and cozy inside the shopping mall Thier-Galerie (though I really do hate the noisiness there and shopping for anything really isn't my thing either...but it's actually an ok place to sketch)

It was cold and wet this evening. Thursday's meetup of #uskdortmund inside the shopping mall 'Thier-Galerie'. #Dortmund #Ruhrgebiet #uskdo #urbansketching #urbansketchers #penandink #coloredpencil #FineArt #sketchbook #art #kleineKunstklasse

Thursday evening #uskdortmund : Urban Sketching in the Museum Ostwall. (Paula Modersohn-Becker was just too big for her self-portrait) #urbansketching

Thursday's meetup of #uskdortmund at Westenhellweg and inside 'Wintergalerie'. My favorites there are the paintings by Heike Onnertz. #Dortmund #Ruhrgebiet #uskdo #urbansketching #urbansketchers #coloredpencil #FineArt #sketchbook #art #kleineKunstklasse

#uskdortmund meet up last Thursday: Sketching in and around the "Wintergalerie" (in the old Kaufhaus building). Me: outside, just a view of the "Westenhellweg". In not too cold temperature (8 °C), almost hot already. (Me, anyway, or is that just the hot flashes?) #urbansketching #usk #uskdo

Yesterday: last #uskdo #urbansketching meet up for this year: Stefanie wanted to sketch the big Christmas tree and the Christmas market because she hadn't yet, so that's where we went. (This time the lights on the tree were turned on and somehow I'm not hating it quite as much as I think I should).

Thursday evening #uskdortmund #urbansketching : in the cold, first day of the Christmas market (ok: "Christmas City"), sketching the biggest Christmas tree worldwide (or something like that) (no, it's not about being pretty) but not lightened up yet (I think they turn it on on Sunday or Monday?)

Yesterday's #urbansketchers meetup in Dortmund: Sketching in front of the Petrikirche again. It's unbelievably warm 15°C (or more?) in the evening at the moment. That's new: being able to sketch the people sitting outside at a Cafe at 6 pm in the dark. Seems like a November heat wave. #uskdortmund

Last Thursday evening #uskdo meetup: night time #urbansketching of the merry go round during the in-between-markets phase (time between Hanse market and official Christmas market) with the pretty big moon in the background. (getting the colors right is a lot harder in the dark)

The last few weeks of #uskdo #urbansketching : Rombergpark, Propsteikirche (three little boys helping me color in the sky and the trees), and yesterday sketching in the dark on the Hansemarkt (a try at sketching moving people) It's the dark season now: no more daylight Thursday evening sketches 🥲

#31DaysOfGraves started for me in september. We visited Ostfriedhof #Dortmund with #uskdortmund for #naturesketching I had fun watching the squirrels. 🐿️😁 #uskdo #Ruhrgebiet #urbansketching #urbansketchers #pleinair #watercolor #coloredpencildrawing #FineArt #sketchbook #art #kleineKunstklasse

Last Sunday #urbansketching with #uskdortmund on the Ostfriedhof. Sketching one of the other #urbansketchers sketching the wonderful floral metal ornaments of one of the graves.

Thursday evening Urban Sketching meet up in Dortmund: staying inside cause of the rain and sketching the view from the U-Tower. It's starting to get darker earlier again... #urbansketching #uskdortmund #usk

Rain again. 🌧️ There were only six of us, and we stayed in the "loudspeaker" bay window of the U-Tower, overlooking the city. #uskdortmund #Dortmund #Ruhrgebiet #uskdo #uskgermany #urbansketching #urbansketchers #ballpendrawing #coloredpencildrawing #FineArt #sketchbook #art #kleineKunstklasse

yesterday's #UrbanSketching meet up with #uskdortmund I was too concentrated on all those buildings and whatever perspective does when you look down a street - forgetting all the passerbys that should also be caught on paper. So now I have a ghost street. Next time: more people! #urbansketchers

Some of my sketches from the #uskstuttgart German meet up. From the Sketchwalks (Kraftwerk Münster & Markthalle), an unfinished in-between sketch (cause of a passerby who wouldn't stop talking to me and telling me how bad people are) and the Theaterhaus. #usk #urbansketchers #uskstuttgart2025

Last few weeks of #urbansketching Thursday evening #uskdortmund meet ups. The group not wanting to go far, just sticking to a few meters around the U-tower in Dortmund...

This week adding to my nature journal: some very common wild flowers (especially the dandelions are happily blooming in every little strip of green and sidewalk cracks right now) and watching a wagtail catch flies. #naturejournaling