Finally! The results of my illustration project. I was almost going mad on these things the past week. Wanted to finish them quickly but in the end I stayed at school til 12 five nights in a row – sketching, pencil tracing on the light table, adding watercolor and retracing again with markers. The subject was 'Newspaper Illustration' – I chose my headlines from controversial topics: school massacres in the US, child suicide bombers, child abuse by catholic priests, war veteran suicides and rising fascism in East Germany. The drawings are on 50x70cm canvases each. The titles of the articles can be seen on top of your browser when clicking the pics.

Yesterday, I've probably been to my last Sabbath for a long time. But oh my, it was good. Jonathan's mom had cooked and there were about 20 friends stuffing themselves with calf fillet, sweet potatoes with pesto, lemon zucchini, mango salad with coriander, thyme white beans, horseradish salad, onions baked into pastry and finally one big chocolate and one big cheese cake with whipped cream. Not to forget the well picked red wine. God, I'm gonna miss these big dinners...

What you see below is the start of a 5 hour "Die Hard" marathon we started afterwards at our place, watching the whole trilogy with Martin, Sebastian, Julie and Simon. Except for Simon and me, no one made it through every film :D In the end, everyone just fell asleep in front of the TV. And how was the next morning started? You got it, playing some good ol' FIFA 2007 before even getting up.