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86-2682 – Museo de San Agustin

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For the second part of our afternoon off on 23 April in Intramuros, we joined #UrbanSketchersManila at the San Agustin Museum for the Unesco World Book and Copyright Day, hosted by the UNESCO-Philippine National Commission. The museum has an amazing collection of religious artefacts, housed in a former monastery, with beautiful courtyards (I could sketch there for days). In my sketch the figures at the ends are St. Augustine and St. Paul (17th century Molave wood from Sexmoan, Pampanga …yes that is a real place), and in the middle is a 20th century Risen Christ. The museum notes didn’t say anything about the wooden altarpiece.

Tue-23-Apr-2024

86-2681 – Junk not

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On Tuesday 23 April we took an afternoon off and went to Intramuros, first to visit the exhibition of a friend of ours at the NCCA Gallery. @JunkNot.ph is a social enterprise that up-cycles plastic waste into furniture and home decors, while providing livelihood to a displaced community in Taal. The furniture is amazing and colourful – my sketch just captured half of a seat with angel wings!

Tue-23-Apr-2024

86-2680 – Sky garden

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After the Stabilo Boss launching event (on Sunday 21 April), we hung out for a while at the SM North EDSA mall – which I didn’t realise is so huge! We wandered around the ‘Sky Garden’ trying to find a haven of peace that wasn’t too crowded and ended up at Starbucks. Outside another noisy event was going on, so I sketched the crowds .

Sat-20-Apr-2024

86-2678-9 – Stabilo

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On Sunday 21 April we went to a Stabilo Boss launching event (at SM North EDSA) for their Nature Colour marker pens, with #UskQuezonCity. I always thought Stabilo only made highlighter pens! I started this sketch while Millie (@cmdjdraws) gave an introduction to #UrbanSketching and then continued when Don Tantiado (@don_candrawlines) did a demo using the markers (that’s his drawing on the screen in my sketch). The second sketch (bit of a disaster) is what I drew (coloured with Stabilo Boss markers), when Don gave us an exercise to draw the person next to us.

Sat-20-Apr-2024

86-2677 – All sketching the same

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This is the sketch I did at the Dia del Libro event with the Instituto Cervantes and Enrique Flores on Saturday 20th April in Ayala Triangle Gardens, Makati. During the ‘show and tell’ of our efforts, Enrique commented that few of us had captured the feel of the event or included people, although the gardens were crowded, and lastly that having sketched as a group for some time (that is #UrbanSketchersQuezonCity), a lot of us are starting to sketch in the same style. All fair points but I enjoyed the sketching all the same.

Sat-20-Apr-2024

86-2675-76 – Couples

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Here are the last two sketches I did at the @PensNBrushesArt life drawing session on Friday 19th April. The two models put on some headgear (kind of crowns made from sticks and dried plants) and did some 20 minute couples poses. These were done using a mixture of #Derwent water soluble graphite sketching pencils and watercolour pencils, watercolour and ink. The last one is the sketch I was most satisfied with from the whole session.

Fri-19-Apr-2024

86-2671-73 – Twenty minute poses

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More life drawing from the @PensNBrushesArt life drawing session on Friday 19th April. These are all 20 minute poses done using a mixture of #Derwent water soluble graphite sketching pencils and watercolour pencils, watercolour and ink.

Fri-19-Apr-2024

85-2658 – Foliage and security

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Here is my last sketch from our impromptu sketching on Sunday 14th April in BGC. This is another view from outside the Texas Roadhouse restaurant (on Bonifacio South Street), looking towards the towers I had sketched earlier. This time I focussed on the trees, plus there are two security guys who were hovering around (but not bothering us). I did the watercolour later, but I think the colour got a bit too intense and bright!

Sat-14-Apr-2024