Here is a sketch I did when my wife went to have a health consultation – we waited for ages only to find out that she needed to see another type of doctor. I always find it odd when you are expected to know what kind of specialist to see! At least I managed to do this sketch in their brightly coloured lobby.
Thu-6-Mar-2025
On Sunday 2 March, we decided to go out into the communal garden for a change and do a sketch – but somehow this ended up looking a lot gloomier than it really is. I’ve sketched that big tree a couple of times before – the roots are really coming out of the ground now and there is always a danger it will topple over in a typhoon.
Sun-2-Mar-2025
This sketch was done at Shakey’s down the road from where we live. We set out to drive to Wabi-Sabi Noodle House in Makati, but the traffic was appallingly bad (worse than the usual dreadful conditions), so we just stopped at the nearest eatery. For desert I ate the brownie that is featured in this poster…it was supposed to have salted caramel on it but I think they just sprinkle (far to much) salt on some syrup!
Thu-27-Feb-2025
I started this sketch when we took our car to the car wash (before having lunch with some friends in Las Pinas). We were late to our meet up because the queue and the washers took forever – in fact I could have done more sketches. I seem to be sketching the backside of cars a lot these days!
Sun-5-Jan-2025
This sketch was done at the local mall (Market Market!), when we stopped for a light lunch (at Beiruti Bites) while we were doing a massive Christmas shop for all the ingredients we needed to cook our Christmas dinner. I added all the sparkly lights with a Posca pen.
Mon-23-Dec-2024
This isn’t my favourite activity just before Christmas, but by paying our property tax early (in December), we get a discount. I first headed to the new city hall (ugly, partially finished …maybe they ran out of funding), near our apartment, but then had to take a tricycle to the old one (which I thought had been closed) and did this sketch while I waited. I don’t know how good the municipality of Taguig are at providing services, but when it comes to collecting taxes they are really efficient, so I didn’t have much time to do this.
Fri-20-Dec-2024
This sketch was done on the BGC (Bonifacio Global City) high-street, after we had done our weekly shop at Market Market! (the nearest big shopping mall to us)…boy was it crowded in the supermarket. After shopping we went for wander to find a place to have a coffee and do a sketch. I actually had a green tea smoothie – mostly sugar and not much tea I think – but yummy!
Sun-15-Sep-2024
Taguig City (where we live) is definitely not a walkable green city by any stretch of the imagination. The day I sketched this we wanted to go for a nice walk in a park…but it seems there are no parks at all in the city. We ended up driving to the McKinley Hill area, only to find that “McKinley Park” is actually a tiny leftover strip of land – a road reservation. Nevertheless we had a wander around the area and eventually went into Venice Grand Canal Mall for a coffee at Cibo (how you pronounce that I don’t know), where I sketched this view out of the window.
Sun-8-Sep-2024
Here are the sketches I did with my friends and fellow sketchers @revcruz, @the_uban_sketcher and @maydomingoprice at #VeniceGrandCanalMall in Taguig. This mall is inspired (I think in a slightly kitsch way) by the Grand Canal in Venice, with an Italian theme and a canal (though it looks more like a shallow swimming pool) running through it where guests can ride on gondolas. For these sketches I used a concertina #Potentate sketchbook given to me by my friend, so I tried to join these two sketches together – although they were done in different spots along the canal. The sketch on the left is meant to be the Rialto Bridge, the half on the right is a mime, of which there are many all wearing different costumes, around the mall.
Sun-2-Jun-2024