After spending all morning getting prodded and poked so I could get a medical certificate last Friday, I decided to take a lunch break in Rizal Park. To one side of the park is the Chinese Garden – which apparently was built to promote friendship and the Philippines. The garden is a bit run down but it’s a nice quite spot to sketch.
Fri-18-Jan-2019
On the last day of our family gathering in Tanay, Rizal, most of make a trip via ferry and tricycle (motorbike with side car) to the Tinipak river, where we hiked up the river for half an hour to see the rapids and rock formations. While everyone else was taking pictures of each other I took a moment to sketch this. The marble rocks are a beautiful pink and grey.
Sun-13-Jan-2019
Over the weekend the whole extended family (about 30 of us) headed out to an Airbnb cottage Tanay, Rizal Province . This is the first sketch I did during the trip, sitting on the big covered terrace. The cottage was buried in amongst verdant tropical greenery – and was lovely and cool at night being fairly high up in the mountains.
Fri-11-Jan-2019
This is the second sketch I did yesterday inside Fort Santiago. The white building is where José Rizal was confined – formerly barracks that have been reconstructed and now house a museum. That’s a statue of him on the right.
Sun-11-Feb-2018