My bagpack felt light and I was in good mood. The weather was unusually warm for the month of January. The water of Jagst was quite high, like dark petrol colour and from the other side of the river I could hear some noisy tree cutting work in progress.
The way I followed, was very close to the river and on my mobile navigator, I could see that the river would make two complete U-turns on the way. When I entered the forest, the trees were dotted with white dots, the noises I formerly heard aren’t any more and besides the cracking beneath my feet, it was very calm.
Then I had to go up steeper into a forest with lots of very old oak trees, often covered by light green moss.
When I was up very high over the river I could hear some orange men on the other side of the river shouting and making noice. Turned out that there was a drive hunt going on. Then some shooting…
Some fallen trees obstructed my passage here and there and very soon I was leaving the forest again. I could see Hessenau in the green valley below me. Here I needed to make an A3 panoramic sketch (see above).
After the picnic high above Hessenau and after finishing my painting I continued towards Hessenau, went over the bridge and to the „milk-station“, which was a little hut filled with fresh dairy products and other provisions. Here I bought some stuff and saw that the hunters have already finished their hunt and they caught 5 huge brown boars. Two of them were already stretched and three of them on the ground. The colours orange and green were their trend colours;) Made two rough pencil sketches which I coloured later in my studio.