This sketch was done during a visit we made to Vista Mall, down the road from us, to buy some DIY stuff (at All Home). After we had done our shopping we had a donut and coffee at a little Krispy Kreme stand. This car was inside the mall – maybe some kind of prize or just promotional?
Sun-26-May-2024
Here is a simple sketch of another of my ‘go-to’ subjects – whatever fruit that we happen to have in the fruit basket. This basket is actually half of a “Bangchung” – a bamboo container made in Bhutan and traditionally used to carry your lunch or for serving food and snacks to guests. With the other semi-spherical half, it snaps together to make a container.
Sat-25-May-2024
Here are the other sketches I did when I joined #UskManila at the #DiscoverBiodiversity event at the Gateway Mall 2 in Araneta City, celebrating International Day for Biodiversity. The cameraman was a popular subject for us sketchers (while the talks were going on several of us drew him). I found out afterwards (with the help of @nice.r.rodriguez) that the lights I drew are called Klieg Lights (named after inventor John Kliegl and his brother Anton Kliegl).
Tue-21-May-2024
Here is the first sketch I did when I joined #UskManila at the #DiscoverBiodiversity event at the Gateway Mall 2 in Araneta City, celebrating International Day for Biodiversity. The event was sponsored by USAID and the Gerry Roxas Foundation amongst others, and included a wildlife photo exhibition, part of which you can see in my sketch. The exhibition had these rattan decorative archways … which were adorned with green leaves made from plastic drinks bottles. According to Wikipedia the Isabela Oriole (the yellow bird in my sketch) is a species of the oriole family endemic to Luzon which was presumed to be extinct until its rediscovery in December 1993.
Tue-21-May-2024
Here is one of my go-to subjects – just something random from the fridge. Every time we buy honey I doubt whether it really is honey or not. This is because in 2020 the Department of Science and Technology found that about 80% of honey products sold in shops in the Philippines were not pure honey. Most were composed of sugar syrup – although all the imported products they tested were not found to be adulterated.
This will be my first post on Cara (https://cara.app/art-chap-enjoin) – I am testing out a new social media site as I am a bit fed up with IG (and Facebook). While I am not bothered about trying to sell stuff through IG, try not to care about numbers of followers and likes and have my own blog site (artchapenjoin.com), the fact that Meta makes it almost impossible to opt out of AI scraping (even though it can most likely be done from everywhere else my drawings are posted) and that many artists are losing their livelihood to AI, makes me want to at least purge my accounts a little.
Mon-20-May-2024
Despite feeling a bit rotten and unwell with a cold, I made it out to sketch on Sunday 19 May. This is the small shopping area behind the supermarket where we shop each week. We had a little lunch at the #BrewHilde coffee shop and enjoyed the peace and quiet for an hour or so. As we were leaving it was starting to thunder, so I was hoping for a bit more rain to cool things down and refresh the greenery…since then we have had quite a few downpours and the roof over our laundry space started leaking…be careful what you wish for!
Sun-19-May-2024
Here is another sketch of a random object from our pantry. This is a bottle of (SM Bonus) rice wine that we bought a long time ago, just for cooking. In fact it’s so rough, that it’s barely good enough for that!
Mon-13-May-2024
Here is the second sketch I did on Sunday 12th May, when my wife and I cycled to Market Market!, to do a bit of shopping (and sketching). This is a view from Serendra (described as a ‘modern complex featuring a variety of shops & restaurants with condos above them’ on one website), looking down the BGC High Street – yet another shopping area. I’ve sketched these decorative street lights before (see post 995 in February 2019), when I said they look like pairs of people hugging or bowing.
Sun-12-May-2024
On Sunday 12th May, my wife and I cycled to Market Market!, to do a bit of shopping…plus it was my wife’s first “urban cycle” – meaning the first time for years for her to brave the traffic on a bicycle in Metro Manila. We cycled the long way round, so that we could avoid steep hills and narrow crowded roads. Once we got there we had breakfast in #SeattlesBest. I added the colour to this when at home.
Sun-12-May-2024