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An old sketch reflecting what a residential neighborhood looked like in Japan during Cherry Blossom. My office building was next door, on the main blvd, extremely busy and noisy. But turn the corner into one of these little side street, and it is heavenly quiet and beautiful. I loved walking around these alleys. This sketch was made during one of those promenades (probably during lunch hour). "Sakura in Shibuya", ink and watercolor on paper, 11" x 14".
Cimetière de Bateaux
Séance avec le groupe Urban Sketcher Lorient.
Aquarelle et encre sur Watercolourbook
This took a few attempts to finish between the snow showers. I’m not sure if these were tiled or slate roofs.
Vue de Saint Caradec sur les remparts d'Hennebont.
Avec les Urbans Sketchers Lorient vendredi 12 mars 2021.
Météo : rafales de vent et averse
Aquarelle, encre et collage lettre de Edouard Manet sur Carnet Hahnemülhe.
View of Saint Caradec on the ramparts of Hennebont.
Weather: wind gusts and rain shower
With the Urbans Sketchers Lorient Friday, 12/03/2021
Watercolor, ink and collage letter by Edouard Manet on Watercolour Book Hahnemülhe.
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
I had to draw the evening sun lighting up the globes but I was stoolless but managed to find a wall to sit on at almost the best position.
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
A passing local told me this was her favourite part of the town. I said that I loved the cobbles. She said “only with flat soled shoes”.
Avec le groupe USK Lorient vendredi 3 décembre, il pleut, nous dessinons à l'intérieur de la gare.
Structure en bois qui fait écho à l'environnement maritime de la ville. Dans le hall, cette grande baie vitrée qui donne sur l'extérieur.
Croquis : Intérieur, extérieur, hier et aujourd'hui.
Aquarelle, encre et collage d'une photo de la 1ère gare inaugurée en 1862, détruite en 1943, une gare a été construite en 1966 qui a laissé la place à la nouvelle gare inaugurée en 2017.
This was hard work. I thought I could get the whole building on one page in one sitting, in the end it was scattered over 5 pages. I had to go back twice to finish the sketch. Trams kept stopping in the view. And it kept raining. And it was cold.
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...
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.
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