Weekly update 8/52 Sunny walks to Kaiserwerth and coffee in the afternoon sun

Week 8 of 2023 was a sunny but pretty cold week here in Düsseldorf. Sunny is good. First coffee outside on the front waiting for Filip to get back from school. I did exercise at Jackies boot camp one day and for the rest I have been for long walks in the nice weather. I walked down to Kaiserswerth to get energy from people, the beautiful cobble-stones streets and Rhein promenad. Apart from exercising and enjoying the sun I have mainly been working on some new illustrations. Illustrations needs a lot of time to sit and work with layers and layers and new ideas as I go along. My plan is to add characters to my summer landscape, but what or whom I haven't figured out yet. It is very easy to get distracted and come up with other things to do when I am working on illustrations because it is so time consuming but it will be no pictures made if I don't actually sit and draw and paint. Don't get me wrong it is what I love to do but sometimes it feels like I am not doing anything, but if my dream of making a book will ever come true I need to keep working and experiment with story-lines, characters, landscapes and style. I am lucky who have the chance to every day work with things I love to do and now when we know our expat time here in Germany is coming to an end very soon I am trying to maximize my creative work.

Rhein promenad in Kaiserswerth

Kaiserpfalz Kaiserswerth en borgruin from year 1016

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