urban people

26th sketchcrawl - the public

2010-03-01T12:44:00.001+01:00

26th sketchcrawl - the public, originally uploaded by andrea bayer.

27th February morning. There were some passers by that looked at us sketching but did not stop. This man, waiting for a friend, was dusting is car for half an hour so I had enough time to capture him.

26th sketchcrawl - the sketchers

2010-03-01T12:41:00.001+01:00

26th sketchcrawl - the sketchers, originally uploaded by andrea bayer.

My first Sketchcrawl. It was a warm and sunny February day, the 27th. The group was composed by 8 roman sketchers (three in the drawing). We begin at 11. I have drawn for an hour or so, at the beginning I was very shy but at the end we talked a little about tecniques and showed each other what we had done. It was very nice. We decided to stay in touch and organize very sooon another informal sketchcrawl.

vineria

2010-01-22T18:21:00.001+01:00

vineria, originally uploaded by andrea bayer.

In campo dei fiori, Rome, there is a place called Vineria, that reminds me of the 'Baccari' (popular traditional bars) in Venice, my hometown, that's why I am at ease here.
Before going home in the evening after work I pass by for a quick drink with my 'vineria' friends: english, american, dutch people and from all over Italy who live in Rome. The man portraied here with moustache is a marvellous person.

drawing in restaurant

2010-01-22T18:20:00.003+01:00

drawing in restaurant, originally uploaded by andrea bayer.

I draw a japanese man who was drawing at the restaurant. May be he was a urban sketcher?

at the restaurant rome

2010-01-22T18:20:00.001+01:00

at the restaurant rome, originally uploaded by andrea bayer.

Another place where I feel at home in Rome is a Trattoria called Lilli. It's around the corner of my office near the river Tevere and it's like eating at home. Traditional dishes from the roman cuisine, friendly owners, warm atmosphere. Another place where you can find your friends without taking appointments.

USk_UK_HaitiPoster

2010-01-18T12:27:00.001+01:00

USk_UK_HaitiPoster, originally uploaded by Urban Sketchers.

this is how USk reacted to the Haiti drama

it's cold in Rome

2010-01-17T13:11:00.001+01:00

7, originally uploaded by andrea bayer.

two inhabitants of the Rome railway station

the man who watched the cars parking

2010-01-17T13:08:00.001+01:00

the man who watched the cars parking, originally uploaded by andrea bayer.

in front of the hamburg harbour, this nice man checked the cars of a parking lot. His old VW van was his shelter against the freezing wind of the afternoon.

urban people 1997

2010-01-17T12:46:00.001+01:00

urban people 1997, originally uploaded by andrea bayer.

What caught my eyes and my pen as I arrived in the city was the multiracial side of Rome.

2010-01-13T06:22:00.000+01:00

The fishing boat was just arrived at the Travemunde harbour (10 minutes by car from Lubeck) and the fishermen were selling the catch of the day, mainly Baltic soles. The son of the fisherman was shoveling ice in the fish boxes. I bought two fishes and cooked them in the evening. They were extremely delicious.

cahos in Rome

2010-01-12T18:13:00.000+01:00

This was my first impression of Rome as I arrived in 1997 to stay for some years (and I still do) . Porta Portese market on sunday and the everyday motorbike jam in the traffic, showed the cahotic side of the capital as it is, even worst, 12 years later.

2010-01-10T19:47:00.000+01:00

and this is Alstertal. The river was deep black, a fantastic contrast with the white of the snow.

cold people Alstertal

2010-01-10T19:43:00.000+01:00

that morning in Alstertal was snowy and very very cold (for me) minus 5 celsius. All the people I met had the face red as a crab apple, almost burgundy colored. Only the Swan and the snow were deep white.

2010-01-10T11:15:00.000+01:00

these are prortraits I have taken in the foyer of schmidt tivoli teather on the repeprban-hamburg, at a restaurant on the hamburg harbour and in a big shopping center near poppelbuttel-hamburg.

hamburg private tropaquarium

2010-01-10T10:58:00.000+01:00

this rooom was a dream. A glass wall 10 meters high in a dark room. Behind the glass big fishes as sharks, mantas, cernie, swam in a surreal and magic light

plastic man hamburg

2010-01-10T10:49:00.000+01:00

teaching in the snow

2010-01-07T18:30:00.000+01:00

While walking in the alster valely woods we met an entire class sliding on the wood's slopes on their sledges. At a certain point the teacher called out and eveyone gathered his sledge and went back to the nearby school. What a nice way to study!

christmas people in hamburg

2010-01-07T18:15:00.000+01:00

urban people # 10 Toulon-france

2009-12-13T18:07:00.000+01:00

One strong female face caught in a restaurant on the sea in Toulon.

urban people # 9 - hamburg

2009-12-13T18:02:00.000+01:00

Taken from our car on my moleskine. He was very proud of his Hearly Davidson, he was most probably in his 60s, very elegant, everything was coordinated fom his leather boots to his black elmet. A rich hell's angel.

urban people # 8 - hamburg

2009-12-13T17:54:00.000+01:00

This wa taken on a ice skating field. The man looked like Liam Neeson. He skated in corduroy jeans and was a good skater. With him his young son and a lot of friends. Also him looked like a reminder of the alternative look of the 60s.

urban places # 1 - schanze eppendorf Hamburg

2009-12-13T17:52:00.000+01:00

urban people # 7 - hamburg

2009-12-13T17:46:00.000+01:00

This old man in a hamburg Fleamarket was browsing through old vynil long playing. He had a old worn out police jacket and a police cap. But he surely was not a policeman. He looked like an old Hippie from the past. The whole market looked like it was sent into the third millenium from the early sixties.

urban people # 6 roma

2009-12-13T17:40:00.000+01:00

urban people #5

2009-12-09T17:06:00.001+01:00

Inside and outside of a tobacconist shop in hamburg, last january.

urban people #4

2009-12-09T17:03:00.001+01:00

This was taken on my moleskine last december in a very cold morning inside and out of a shopping center in downtown Hamburg

urban people #3

2009-12-09T16:55:00.001+01:00

This woman, surrounded by her dogs, was crouching with her hand out in front of a theater in the center of Rome.

urban people #2

2009-12-09T13:17:00.000+01:00

He is french. He has his lunch - that he prepares on the spot - and sleeps in the afternoon on the pavement of a small alley near my office. Around him a dozen of empty wine boxes.

urban people

2009-12-09T13:13:00.001+01:00

This was taken from a taxi on my moleskine. He played his violin all alone in a large empty street in Rome dressed like a captain.