This sketch was started in “Edmundo Lounge” in Bury St. Edmunds where we had lunch on the third full day of our holiday. We drove to Bury to do some shopping for camping gear, in anticipation of the next leg of our trip, when we will camp at the Womad (World of Music Arts and Dance) festival in Wiltshire. I finished off the sketch at home.
Mon-22-Jul-2024
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
Here is another sketch done during the #UskQuezonCity Tagpuan Sa QC event, with the Executive Board of Urban Sketchers (Global) at Urban Chick in QC. I think we had been discussing drawing faces and people, so I gave it a go – there are lots more faces coming in my next post too…
Fri-15-Mar-2024
Here is my first sketch (of many) done during the #UskQuezonCity Tagpuan Sa QC (translated as “Meeting Place in Quezon City”) event. The Executive Board of Urban Sketchers (Global) were visiting for a series of events and activities. For me this kicked off with a “Drink and Draw” social evening at a little restaurant called Urban Chick along Maginhawa Street in QC. I arrived pretty early (I wasn’t sure how bad the traffic would be), so I started this sketch before the place filled up.
Fri-15-Mar-2024
I did so many sketches on our trip to Angeles City with #UskManila…so here is another one. After sketching at #PamintuanMansion we visited the local church. This church was first built in 1877, but was damaged in the 2019 Luzon earthquake and is currently undergoing restoration. I did this sketch very quickly…probably too quickly as I made lots of mistakes!
Sat-24-Feb-2024
This sketch was done while we were on our #SketchWalk with #UskManila, in Angeles City. After doing a couple of sketches we wandered around trying to find somewhere to have lunch and ended up at this place. According to their website the restaurant was established in February 1988 and has multiple branches around the city, serving “a wide variety of food”. I had a rather sad grilled cheese sandwich…the only veggie option I could find on their menu. Still, at least it was air-conditioned and sketch-able!
Sat-24-Feb-2024
Here is a quick sketch I did while we waited for our dinner at Shaka Cafe in Burgos Circle, BGC, last week. We were there celebrating the 22nd birthday of our youngest daughter, and had a delicious vegetarian meal. It’s just a coincidence that the plant at the top of the sketch looks like a sunflower…the round things are actually light fittings.
Wed-20-Dec-2023
Here is another sketch I did in Baguio…again taking photos of each step in an effort to show how I sketch. The truth is though, that I am usually not quite so careful and just launch into the sketch without any ‘construction’ lines…that’s why I often miss out the top of a tall building or find what I am sketching disappearing off the edge of the page! This one is done in my favourite restaurant in Baguio, a place called “Oh my gulay” – a local expression literally meaning ‘oh my veggies’ but effectively more like OMG. I’ve sketched here several times before – if you are keen you can hunt for sketch numbers 1643 and 2297 in my archive.
Sun-3-Dec-2023
This sketch follows the #Sketchtober2023 prompt of light fixture for Day 20. I think we bought this glass lampshade in Istanbul years ago. Certainly since then it has either in storage or hanging on the side of a cupboard.
Wed-8-Nov-2023