Here is one of my airport sketches – done at NAIA terminal 1 on my way to Lebanon for work.
Sun-27-May-2018
Airport
701 – Abu Dhabi decor
Here is another airport sketch – this one was done during my layover at Abu Dhabi. This waiting area has a spectacular torus-like ceiling design that I couldn’t resist sketching, even though I ran out of time and had to add the colour later. The domed ceiling curves down into a broad column in the middle – below was another concourse and on the level I sketched from, the gates for flights were accessed through arched tunnels.
Fri-20-Apr-2018
700 – Engineer’s dream
This sketch (my 700th!) was done in Amman airport on my way back home. The building has a rather elegant concrete dome-like structure…some engineer really had some fun on this building.
Fri-20-Apr-2018
691 – Airport bus
Here is another sketch done during a long layover in Abu Dhabi airport. For some reasons airports are designed to be mostly grey – you have to look carefully to find any colour.
Sun-8-April-2018
690 – Morning refuel
This was drawn early in the morning in Abu Dhabi airport – a 9 hour layover between flights is a perfect opportunity for sketching (also helps stave off the boredom!).
Sun-8-Apr-2018
689 – Airport reflections
I am trying to catch up with posting drawings – this is one done late at night at the airport on my way out of Manila, travelling for work. The reflections in the glass gave me a chance to play about with shapes and colours.
Sat-7-Apr-2018
659 – Crowds saying goodbye Hanoi
There are very few flights from Hanoi direct to Manila – the one I took left Hanoi at 1:25 am on Thursday….so I sketched to stay awake. Despite the late/early hour, the airport was heaving with people standing around looking through windows into the ‘airside’. While I drew this I chatted to a family who were there to say goodbye to a young friend going to do a PhD in Japan and then after that I was surrounded by an enormous extended family taking photos of each other (I am sure I must have appeared in the corner of a few of their family snaps).
Wed-14-Mar-2018
#650 – Sketching heads to stay awake at aiport
On my first trip for work this year I had to take a late night flight, so while waiting for boarding I sketched to stay awake.
Wed-7-Mar-2018
#581 – Departing to Clark remain seated
We left the UK on 2 Jan heading back home. I didn’t have time to sketch in Heathrow but we had a few hours in Doha so I drew this. The colours turned out a bit muddy, but that was the colour scheme in the airport anyway!
Wed-3-Jan-2018