Omar paints Odeon Platz

I arrived to Munich a little early for the second Germany Urban Sketchers Meeting. With a few hours to kill I went walking and stopped to draw the Odeon Platz. It was a good idea because the Sunday when we went back there was a street festival on the square blocking this view.



Let me know if you like the video and what do you want me to record.







Music: "Weltgeist by Miss Natasha Enquist.



Find her album "MNE" at: http://missnatashaenquist.bandcamp.com/album/mne
For more info: www.natashaenquist.com

Omar paints Miss Natasha Enquist

So finally I am using my new go pro camera. Here I had the opportunity to draw Miss Natasha Enquist.

It was suppose to be a digital drawing with my iPad,  however she is just a great model that I had to draw here with different techniques. This was with pen and watercolour, but I started with the watercolour first. Enjoy and please give me some feedback of what subjects you want me to draw.





Model/Recording Artist: Miss Natasha Enquist
Find her album "MNE" at: http://missnatashaenquist.bandcamp.com/album/mne
For more info: www.natashaenquist.com

Omar paint Iah Moontra

Recently I bought a go pro camera to record the way I paint. Here is a time lapse video I did last week.

This group Iah Moontra is really amazing, they really transform the space where they play...very Berlin in some way.





Here is the final drawing:

My Zanzibar Sketchbook

Wow! After I created the PDF of my Zanzibar sketchbook I forgot to share it here. Here it is, I hope you enjoy it.

Portrait delight

Lately I am more interested in portraits. My friends have to suffer

Karam is from Syria. We are doing a language exchange. I am teaching him German and he teaches me Arabic. I used  blue Caran D'Ache Watercolor Pencil to draw him, sprayed with water, let the colors fade a littel and thed apply watercolors. The hair is done with a dry brush technic. As paper I am use a Stillman & Birn Beta (for watercolor) sketchbook.


I went with Najeed and other friends to the lake on a sunny day. I drew him first with Pencil and added Watercolor. The skin color I created with Alizarim Crimson and some yellow, in parts I added cerulean blue to get the tones darker.Notice the red dots on eyes, nose, mouth corners and ears. These are color bridges and help to direct our eyes around the face.

Elvis is a dancer. we go together to the gym and sometimes later have a beer and enjoy the sun. I have drawn him many times. I drew the portrait with pencil and added watercolor later. For the lights of the hair I used a base purple and later cover it partially with sepia and dark blue.

Guido Westerwelle ist tot

That is the headline today in German Newspapers: Guido Westerwelle is dead. He was a German politician from the FDP Party. He became foreign minister and vice chancellor between 2009-2013 during the previous Merkel government.
I draw him 2013 during an "open door" day at the Foreign Affairs Building. He was there talking to the public, without any knowledge about his leukemia. A year later after he retired from politics, he got the diagnostic after doing some tests for a minor operation. What shock me about his death, is that he was young and he was suppose to start a new life, and from nowhere he got this illness. He was just 54. It could happen to me, it could happen to anybody. R.I.P

Drawing Tristan