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90-2748-56 – CBK hydropower

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Mc Do on the way

These are the sketches I did when I joined #UskManila on a trip to the CBK Power Company’s hydropower plants. We had been invited by them with the idea that they will use our sketches in their calendar. We started the trip by meeting up to get on a bus at McDonald’s Alabang at 5am…and then I got home at close to midnight…so it was a long but enjoyable day! CBK’s three facilities are spread around Laguna and we visited all of them including going into the power house and on a cable car down into the valley in the last one (Botocan). Each sketch is done in ink with watercolour on simple cartridge paper. I have tried to give a caption to each sketch.

Power house Caliraya hydroelectric power plant
Generator floor from control room
Caliraya plant
Kalaayan service building
Penstock
Caliraya old spillway
The oldest power station
Botocan plant

Sat-22-Jun-2024

90-2746-47 – Tools

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With these sketches I am on a to a new sketchbook – this one is number ninety! It was given to me a long time ago, is made by #PinkPig and has simple 150 gsm cartridge paper in it…which means it doesn’t take watercolour that well. It’s only A6 size (4.1×5.8 inches), but my idea was that as it’s small and is filled with cheap paper, it will encourage me to sketch more often and less carefully. These two sketches are of ‘tools’ around the house.

Fri-21-Jun-2024

89-2744 – Father’s Day

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This sketch is slightly out of order – but it was waiting in my sketchbook for some paint. I did this one when my wife and I went out for lunch on Father’s Day to our favourite restaurant, the #WabiSabiNoodleHouse in Makati. This place has lots of delicious varieties of (vegetarian) ramen noodle soup – plus the restaurant is paired with the Ikigai Kakigōri Cafe. Kakigōri is a Japanese shaved ice dessert flavoured with syrup and a sweetener…I had the chocolate overload variety!

Sun-16-Jun-2024

89-2745 – Wax flowers

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That’s all of my life drawing for a while (some people who follow me, may feel relieved!). These are not flowers that are made from wax, I just tried out a different technique for a change and used some ancient wax crayons and wax relief with watercolour to draw this. I got these flowers (and some cinema tickets) from my daughters, for Father’s Day.

Thu-20-Jun-2024

89-2742-43 – Couples poses

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Here are the last of my sketches from the #PensNBrushes life drawing session a few weekends ago. As I often find to be the case, after several hours of intense drawing and painting (including all the sketches of 2, 5 and 10 minute poses, that I posted earlier), I was only really satisfied with the last one I did!

Sat-15-Jun-2024

89-2740-41 – Twenty minute poses

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Here are more of my sketches from the #PensNBrushes life drawing session a few weekends ago. After the initial intense sessions we had poses of 20 minutes – so I had time to use watercolour as well as watercolour pencils and ink. I can’t say I was very satisfied with the results though…maybe having more time is not such a good thing!

Sat-15-Jun-2024

89-2728-33 – Male model 2-15 mins

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Here is the first batch of sketches I did at the #PensNBrushes life drawing session last weekend. The male model’s first poses were for 2 minutes only, then we moved on to 5 and then 15 minutes, before we had a break. I used water-soluble graphite, some water-soluble ink, watercolour and a #FaberCastell watercolour pencil. You might notice that the model was wearing a white colour and cuffs…a bit distracting for me, but this was part of the organiser’s theme of #AfterTheBall and moonlit figures.

Sat-15-Jun-2024

89-2726 – DIY time

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I am fixing up some conduit in our apartment and bought this cheap and simple caulk gun to glue them at the top of the wall (what I call the “no more nails” approach). My DIY (do-it-yourself) efforts usually involve me cursing a lot and blaming my tools…this bit of home improvement was no exception.

Fri-14-Jun-2024

89-2725 – Filipino – Korean soldier monument

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I couldn’t resist doing another sketch (in the shade of the trees in Rizal Park) when I headed home from the Independence Day celebrations. This sculpture caught my eye so I did a quick sketch and added the colour at home. According to the plaque about 7,500 Filipino combat troops fought in the Korean War. The sculpture (by Juan Sajid Imao) is supposed to show two Filipino soldiers helping a wounded Korean comrade.

Wed-12-June-2024