This is my first sketch on our trip to the UK for a holiday. The airline told us we should be at the airport four hours before departure – presumably because the queues at check in and immigration have been terrible recently. That meant we had to get up at 3am! Luckily it didn’t actually take us that long to get to the gate, so I had time to sketch. This lady had the right idea at that time in the morning.
Sun-2-Jul-2023
Here is another blast from the recent past – a sketch I found unfinished from our trip to Camiguin. This one was done at the airport on the way home. There really is a massive advertisement on the wall in the terminal that dwarfs the passengers…even though I got the proportion of the tyre compared to the truck a bit wrong.
Sat-8-Apr-2023
Here is an old sketch that has been hanging around in my sketchbook since earlier this month. This was the second sketch I did on the way to Türkiye from Manila – during my stopover in Doha. The area by the gate that left from had a series of trees – either real or really good fakes, I didn’t have time to take a closer look.
Sun-4-Jun-2023
On my way back from Türkiye I had a very long layover (9 hours) in Doha. I started with this sketch (a huge wooden sculpture)…then slept in one of their ‘quiet rooms’. According to the blurb on a little sign this sculpture draws inspiration from pop culture and animations and is an exploration of humanity) Apparently it used to be installed at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park UK, Frieze Sculpture Park and Regent’s Park London, before it ended up here.
Sat-17-June-2023
Of course my last sketch in a country (when I have been on a work trip), is going to be at the airport! This wasn’t the plane I was on, but this was the gate I left from. The plane pulled away half-way through my sketch, so some of this was guesswork and reference to a photo I took. Rule number one when sketching something that might move: take a quick snapshot first!
Sat-17-Jun-2023
Here is another sketch I did on my way to Türkiye. There are several of these huge metal artworks in the airport at Doha…I might have even sketched this one before. The lower sphere has a slide connected to it and is part of a children’s play area.
Sun-4-Jun-2023
I have not posted for a while as I have been travelling and super-busy with meetings and field visits. However I have still managed to squeeze in a few sketches. Here is one I did at the airport in Manila before leaving late at night last Saturday. These people kept on changing position, so I ended up sketching just bits of them.
Sat-3-Jun-2023
The morning after the debut of my grand-niece (not sure if that is the right term actually – the daughter of my niece anyway) we headed off to the airport for our little holiday in Camiguin Island. When I say morning I mean really early (our flight was at 03:34am to we were at the airport a couple of hours before that). Naturally even though it was still the middle of the night for me, I had to do an airport sketch!
Mon-3-Apr-2023
Between France and the Philippines we had a long layover in Riyadh. I wasn’t sure if I had been through this airport until I saw the ceiling and remembered that I had sketched it once before. In Riyadh they seem to have lavished a lot of expense on the structure but only a little on the interior design – which was full of open spaces, very few chairs and some meagre coffee shops.
Sat-7-Jan-2023