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83-2616 – Courtyard in the rain

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I am really behind with posting my sketches…because I have been so busy going out sketching! Anyway here is yet another one from the event with Instituto Cervantes Manila (ICM) last weekend. After lunch it was raining a little so we all had to find somewhere to shelter and sketch. I positioned myself under an archway and drew the courtyard of the Institute. The cobbled stone floor was wet and I was trying to get the reflections … but I wasn’t satisfied with how it looked, so I finished off quickly and moved on to another one. In the background you can see some Segway scooters…maybe some tourists were using them to get around Intramuros?

Sat-9-Mar-2024

83-2615 – Charles IV King of Spain

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Here is the second sketch I did after the initial talk of Enrique Flores at the ICM workshop last Saturday. This statue in the Plaza de Roma, in front of Manila Cathedral, was originally erected in 1824 (and later reinstated in 1981) to honour Charles IV of Spain having sent the first batch of smallpox vaccine to the Philippines. In my sketch the king looks like he’s about to fall off his pedestal. The building in the background is the Governor’s Palace and was built in 1976.

Sat-9-Mar-2024

83-2614 – Manila Catheral

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This is the first sketch I did after the initial talk of Enrique Flores at the ICM workshop on Saturday. Enrique gave us 40 tips on sketching, one of which was about including people to give a sense of scale – so I deliberately included the crowds outside the Cathedral. For a change I also masked off the edges of this sketch before painting (instead of using a wobbly line)…got to get some washi tape though.

Sat-9-Mar-2024

83-2613 – Instituto Cervantes

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Here is the first sketch I did when I joined the “Intramural” workshop with Enrique Flores in Intramuros. I had expected bad traffic and difficulty parking (neither of which happened), so I set off really early, and ended up with time to do this sketch of the ICM building, before things began. During the workshop Enrique mentioned that your first sketch is often not so successful…so I am counting this as my duff warm up effort.

Sat-9-Mar-2024