Venners Hjem, Valby

I was cycling through Sydhavnen (South-harbour, an area in Copenhagen) Yesterday. I lived in this area some years ago, it's much nicer than it's reputation. There's one cafées in the area (which is very unusual for Copenhagen), so you don't have the Café latté people (todays yuppies) instead you have a lot of pubs. All of the pubs are very locale and some are more friendlier than others. Venners Hjem (Friends Home) is one of the many pubs, friendly or not, I don't know, I have never been inside, and now it seems to be too late, as it very much looks like it's closing down. Well luckely there are plenty other good places to go for a beer.
Any way Venners Hjem can be found on the corner of Trekronergade and Carl Jacobsensvej. Another nice yellow house, and probably pretty old too

Summer holiday in Denmark

Vedersø Churce

Vedersø Mill

Ringkøbing

The oldest street of Randers

Backyard of Ebeltoft

Lunch at an old inn, Ebeltoft

Old run down factory in Ebeltoft

The last holiday of the year we spend on the road of west part of Denmark - very excotic as we don't own a car. 

We startet of at Vedersø, where Kaj Munk was from, with a family get together. From there we drove to Ringkøbing to visit my wifes sister where we spend a couple of days. Then we drove across the country stopping in Viborg for a short stay at my brothers house and after that we visited my good friend, and urban sketching body, René in Randers, where they, according to René got the oldest street of Denmark. We ended up in Ebeltoft where we stayed for 3 nights. In Ebeltoft you will find some of the most crooked buildings in Denmark - hell the entire world, straighten up tower of Pisa. It's also a town of small annoying flies, but still it's a town worth visiting

Øster Voldgade

Another gateway, antother yellow building - This time it's Rosenborg at Øster Voldgade. The yellow color is typical of old houses in Copenhagen, especially in this area, Nyboder and the surrounding area

Vesterbro in the sun

My good friend Martin came to visit me this weekend, so we grabbed our pens and sketchbooks and walked through Vesterbro.

The top sketch is of the baker "Musikkonditoriet" and the buttom one is a pub on Vesterfælledvej. I've been wanting to draw both places for a very long time - And finally I got around to draw them and add some watercolours to my sketches too.

Summer holiday

We rented a summer house in Jylland with a couple of our very good friends. And even though the danish summer weather didn't show its most pretty face, we had an absolutly fantastic time. 
The house was just a 20 minute walk along a closed down railroad track from Nr. Nebel - So walking along a railroad track every time you need to get a liter of milk, now what more can you ask for

Falkonervænget

While waiting for my wife and daughter I had the chance to do this quick sketch. Actually the plan was to use a bit of watercolours this time, but time and motive just didn't alow it - mayby and hopefully next time.

Sydhavn

Me and a small group from the Copenhagen SketchCrawl group (which could be any one since it's open to any one, but it was the great Kristian, Katja, Thomas, his son and Thomas) and Omar from Berlin, went to Sydhavn harbour to do a bit of sunday sketching.
I have lived in that area of Copenhagen for a number of years, walked around in the harbour area and the surroundings a million times, but for some reason never thought about sketching it. I don't know why, sometimes you must be absolutly blind for the treasures which is nearest your home. Now, sometimes soon, I'll get on my bicycle and drive down there to do some more sketching

Dui Østerbro

This is a barrack behind a youth club I used to come in many years ago. Apparently kids in the neighbourhood constantly sets fire to it - the barracks, they just break into the club house, but this day everything seemed quiet.

Please go to sleep

Hvidovrevej

Today summer is here, so I took my daughter out for a long walk. I was hoping that she would fall asleep so I could some sketching, which she did, everything went as planned. I found this shop facade to sketch and then Karen woke up. So we walked around for a bit, she fell asleep again and I quietly walked back to the shop, started to sketch and she woke up again etc. etc...

But I got around 30 minutes to do this sketch.

valby and Rådmand Steins Allé

Jesus kirken, Valby



Rådmand Steins Allé

It actually felt like summer yesterday. So I took the day off, and went for a walk with my best friend Hans Christian. We found a nice spot by Jesus Kirken (Jesus Churge) in Valby, he read Game of Thrones book two and I did the top sketch.

Afterwards we met up with my wife and our daughter, who had crashed in the garden just outside our appartment - so we joined them in their afternoon nap.