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87-2701 – Mother’s Day

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My wife get’s to celebrate two mother’s days each year (she deserves it), as our daughters are half Filipino and half British. The Philippines celebrates Mother’s Day on the second Sunday of each May. However in the UK it is celebrated about three weeks before Easter (rooted in the Christian observance of lent). These are the flowers our daughters sent on 12th May. For a change, in this sketch I used watercolour pencils (they are all #DerwentStudio except the purple violet which is #FaberCastell) and used negative space to show the white flowers.

Fri-17-May-2024

87-2700 – Cooking only

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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

87-2699 – Serendra

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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

87-2698 – Seattle’s Best

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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

87-2696 – Confucius

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On Saturday 11 May, we had the 13th anniversary for #UskManila and celebrated with a #SketchWalk at the Chinese Garden in Rizal Park (I’ve been sketching with #UrbanSketchersManila since 2016, so that’s 8 years for me). We had a little picnic too with everyone bringing something to eat (we brought home-made chocolate biscuits and vegetarian sausages). According to the plaque on this statue, Confucius was born in September 551 BC and is considered one of the world’s greatest teachers. The statue was put up in 2009 by the Anvil Business Club on behalf of all students and learners to honour all teachers and mentors.

Sat-11-May-2024

87-2695 – Mini sketch

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“If you are going to live to 100, you might as well be happy” – this is a quote from Rhee Kun Hoo from an article I read in the Guardian. I thought of his philosophy of life and how to be happy, while I was sketching this. These are those mini tubes of toothpaste that airlines sometimes give you. I didn’t realise we had accumulated so many…so I’ve started using them – though some don’t taste so nice!

Thu-9-May-2024

87-2694 – Food festival

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After doing two postcard sketches on Sunday 5th May with #UrbanSketchersQuezonCity at the Maginhawa Food Festival. I managed to find time to do another sketch. We were sitting at the back of all the food tents, so this one captures the jumble of all the boxes, water jugs and ephemera that each food stand had. I also managed to get in a few people, so I think I captured the feel of the event in this one. I only had time to do the ink work on the spot so added the colour at home…deciding to leave some areas white and focus on the contrast with the dark green trees in the background.

Sun-5-May-2024

87-2693 – Maginhawa crowds

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Here is the second postcard sketch I did on Sunday 5th May when we joined #UrbanSketchersQuezonCity at the Maginhawa Food Festival. Like the previous sketch this was part of our postcard exchange with #UskSaoPaulo, Brazil and I wrote a short message on the back to my “secret sketcher”.

Sun-5-May-2024