Merry Christmas!

This year, this will be my Christmas wish for you: may you have a merry, stressfree, creative time! Frohe Weihnachten! :)

family and career ...

... needs to be  balanced! How to balance these best is the theme of a study undertaken by a workgroup of the Fribourg University, Switzerland. This is my contribution, a little illustration for theit questionairs! :)

No More Meat!

Yes, this has been one of the first decisions in this new diet. No more meat! It has been alsmost half a year now, and actually, I don't miss it. Ok, I still eat fish, so I am not a vegetarian yet ... but hey, I might get there, sooner or later! There are many reasons for not eating meat - don't like the slaughter, don't like the kind of life the animals have to live before they become our meat, don't want to eat all the medicine they get - but maybe the main reason is the following: it feels good! So I'll stick to this decision.
:)

Markttag! ... or: take care of yourselves.

This drawing is dedicated to my husband Simone and to our decision to change our eating habits!

 Many things have been changing in my life over the past three years. Three years ago, my husband fell ill, he was diagnosed with cancer and has been fighting it since then. He is doing a marvellous job in still being himself - which I think is very hard to do, considering the pain, the many doctors treating you like some kind of machine to repair, the fear, the anger and all that. So ... we are still a happy couple, a happy family, and I don't want to complain! Life has been hard many times, but life is hard for everybody.

Of course we knew right away that eating healthy food is important - don't we all? However, it took us three years to finally take a strong decision about it. To seriously take care of ourselves. It's still a process, trying to convince our children that whole grain rice is actually eatable, trying to convince myself that cookies are not part of the basic foods ... but we are on the way! :)

Here's the rule of thumb: as soon as you notice that something is bad for you - don't do it again. Don't eat, drink, whatever it again. Ever.

Easy, right? ;)
 

Bibliothek zum Wohlfuehlen

Fuer die Firma Portmann eine Wohlfuehl-Bibliothek ...
This is a typical German library ... as I love them, anyways! Germany does have bad wheather ... but this is defenitely a place to go to when it rains. :)

Kulturvermittlung

Illustration for a Powerpoint presentation by Christian Lorenz. How to explain the beauty of Beethoven to a group of top manager!

Flamenco

I loved the idea to use the supposed "old goddess" colours red-white-black on this sketch of a Flamenco-dancer ... but maybe it's too strong a contrast!

Quanti dobbiamo ammazzare?

I am not very good in illustrations that are "noir" ... but once in a while I have to give it a try!

Eve and the apple

... my interpretation of an old story ... or the cover of an unwritten novel?! :)

Tanz-Skizze

A small preview to a projekt in my head ... soon I'll tell you more! This is a sketch inspired by the beautiful dancer Irene da Mario, reference foto by Caterina Ciabatti.

Hannah

Hannah in Greece, Oil on canvas.

Keep reading books!

This was supposed to become a bookmark for the local library!

Reading Bear

Same series ... of scientific bears.

Sleeping Bear

I drew some of these bears for my brother, Professor at a Swiss University, who uses them in his slides when explaining new sientific research about brain activity while we sleep. :)

Dreaming of the beach!

Another sketch for the same calender, month of August

No snow this year in Italy ...

... so what is this, snowman or sandman? ;) This has been a study for an octopus-calender, month of january.

Old dragon newly posted

once in a while, again, a dragon.