I'm thinking about the power of simple line drawings. I am doing a lot of quick drawings of people around me. The watercolors will come back soon, I predict, but for now, I just can't resist the way my pen cuts through the buttery Moleskine paper of my new travel journal with such rich precision.
The above was drawn above in an Eiscafé in Köln (ice cream café in Cologne) where I drank hot chocolate and Emma ate a scoop of ice cream and we talked and were grateful for our health, considering most of our friends were out with a stomach bug (more on that below).
We had our midyear orientation in Cologne this past weekend. I am now slightly over halfway through my year in Germany! This is a little weird, but only a little. My thoughts: I still have five more months, and if I base it on the last five, a lot can happen. It will be weird when the time comes to return to the U.S., but I'm mostly enjoying all the time I do have here. Better not stop too long to think about it, I need to keep at my drawing and documenting! There's so many stories to tell!
This is the Münster Kirche in Bonn. This was a less-than-ten-minute sketch, but I was just struck by the building.
It was good to see all of the American friends I spent a month living with in Hedersleben. However, it wasn't so good that some sort of stomach virus caught about two-thirds of the group before the weekend was over. Somehow I was one of the few who didn't get it!
Basti, my host brother, alongside some flowers.
The flowers make a second appearance, this time outside of the sketchbook.
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