View allAll Photos Tagged inkdrawing
Drawn from Kanonen Bar. The waitress said that I have to draw quickly, the sun will disappear at 2:30 pm. She also said leave out the crane, it’ll look better without it!
Whenever I had a free day in Tokyo, this was the street I enjoyed walking the most. Summer was terrible in Japan as the weather was hot and extremely humid. I sweated all the time and it felt horribly uncomfortable in crowded places. But here in Omoto Sando, like an oasis, the trees gave lots of shade on both sides of the street. Supposedly a trendy area, this section was filled with young people making all kinds of fashion statement, small specialty shops and cute tiny restaurants. It had a bohemian atmosphere. Yet somehow I often thought of Blvd Haussman in Paris whenever I was here. The feeling was the same but the places were quite different.
"Summer day in Omote-Sando"
Tokyo, Japan
Watercolor
11" x 14"
1997
「表参道の夏の日」
東京
透明水彩絵具/紙厚
27.94 cm x 35.56 cm
1997年
Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan
Watercolor
9" x 12"
5-19-2015
「浜松城光園」
静岡県浜松市
透明水彩絵具/紙厚
22.86 cm x 30.48 cm
2015年5月19日
Although I have a lot of sketchbooks filled with drawings, this is the first book I've ever used to fill every page, (also the front and back cover) with a drawing in ink. I began in March 2016 and every night I would draw something in ink. I drew from photos, I doodled nonsense, I used rulers and circle templates. The only rule I gave myself was that I had to use ink and I couldn't sketch in pencil first. Mistakes were made but it was okay, it was very freeing.
41/365
Drawn with Karlsruhe Urban Sketchers.
While I was sketching a man showed me his selfie he took with the flag to send to his girlfriend in Ukraine. Afterwards, a Ukrainian mothar and son posed for a selfie with the flag. Later on an old man walked up to the flag stopped and sung, with a good voice, what I presume had been the national anthem. After singing he carried on walking.
The regional TV channel, SWR, asked if they could do a report on me as an urban sketcher. They concentrated on people in Weststadt in Karlsruhe and I was lucky enough be be included. They liked my series of sketches drawn from high buildings. The Christuskirche vicar was great letting me and the film crew use the tower. We were climbing up and down the narrow spiral staircases and gang planks lots of times to get all the film material needed for the report. Annette Krause interviewed me, she was very friendly and professional but I was extremely nervous. They broadcast at 8:15 pm on 29th February. Here's a link to the report:
www.ardmediathek.de/swr/player/Y3JpZDovL3N3ci5kZS9hZXgvbz...
As I was sketching this, a woman living in this street started waving her arms around to me and shouted “Am I in it?”
Later, her husband came out to see what I was sketching. It turned out that he was a retired art teacher and had marked my art O-Level!
He also lent me his cardy, as I was getting a bit chilly.
One passing local first thought I was recording the traffic as I was sat sketching this next to the main road.
St. Konrad church with a mysterious black cube on a turntable. I asked a dog walker if he knew what it was. He said is was used for measuring and turned very slowly but wasn’t used anymore.The pattern on the cube had a meaning.
「金亀館」
市川原町
高山
透明水彩絵具/紙厚
22.86 cm x 30.48 cm
2007年9月29日土曜日
"Kinkikan" (Bento Lunch Box Shop)
Ichikawara, Takayama, Japan
Ink, pencil and watercolor
9" x 12"
Saturday September 29 2007
Avec le groupe Urban Sketcher Lorient, séance du 19 février 2021.
Croquis à l'encre sur papier naturel, aquarelle et collage.
The main courtyard looking toward the moongate and across the pond.
Vancouver's Dr Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden was created under the loving workmanship of 52 artisans, using the same techniques, materials and tools from the Ming Dynasty. Many of the artisans were of past generations and are no longer living.
This series of images began when I was captivated by some of the "Illustrative" techniques used by Richard Gregory. Richard kindly gave me some tips and here are some experimental images based on the Bruges Canal shot which I posted yesterday. Thanks, Richard. None of them look like yours but I did get one quite close for a while. Then I became interested in getting an engraving type effect, mono and tinted. These are the three results.Thanks again, RichardGregory48.