Travel

81-2556 – Paradise beach

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Here are some more sketches of another popular beach on Bantayan Island. The beach is a bit more remote than others, but despite that it was quite busy, because we visited on New Year’s Day. I decided to sketch the day in little faster vignettes instead of doing a larger painting. The first (top left) shows the edge of the sunshade we fashioned out of one of our hammocks, desperate for a bit of shade. Further down the beach there were lots of people partying around some fishing boats … behind which you can see a free standing sun-shade/canopy which someone had more sensibly brought along.

Mon-1-Jan-2024

81-2555 – Beach house

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This sketch was done when we went for a walk down the beach on New Year’s Eve. After walking for quite a while (and not reaching the fishing boats I had hoped to sketch), we stopped at a random spot and I drew this. I tried using my lovely new #RosemanyAndCo dagger brush to paint the overhanging palm tree.

Sun-31-Dec-2023

81-2553 – M’s sweet creation

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This sketch was done while we had lunch on Kota beach. It was so blisteringly hot that sitting out on the sand (there was very little shade on the part of the beach that is public) was not an option, so we had lunch at the “The Hungry Beach Co.”. This little restaurant had some veggie options, so that suited us fine….it was still Christmas!

Sat-30-Dec-2023

81-2554 – Kota beach

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We spent most of our Bantayan Island holiday visiting different beaches. This beach is another popular one, but as I and my daughters are lazy to get up in the morning, we arrived late…during the hottest part of the day. Boy was it hot. After lunch (I did another sketch before this one but it’s not finished yet) we had to go back to the port to collect one of our bags that was not loaded on our way to Cebu…thanks Cebu Pacific! Then we came back to Kota beach and found a shady spot in front of a resort to chill out, where I sketched this.

Sat-30-Dec-2023

81-2552 – Baigad lagoon

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On our first full day in Bantayan we walked a few hundred yards up the beach to the Baigad lagoon, which is a popular attraction. We weren’t particularly impressed …it’s a bit crowded and people were playing intrusive music – certainly the photos on-line make it look much more picturesque. Although there was a bar with food, we found better veggie choices at a tiny little beachside cafe nearer our AirBnb. Anyway, we did find somewhere to sit in the shade, so I managed this sketch.

Fri-29-Dec-2023

81-2551 – Paradisus beach house

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Here is the first sketch I did when we arrived in Bantayan Island. It’s a pretty terrible reproduction as the scanner app on my phone didn’t get the colours right – I’ll replace it on my WordPress blog with a proper scan when I get home. We are staying at a quiet and secluded little AirBnb cottage – apparently a converted boat house – the owners of which live in one of two houses, which are directly on the beach front (one of them is in my sketch).

Fri-29-Dec-2023

81-2549 – Airport sleeping methods

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Here is my first sketch done on our little New Year holiday to Bantayan Island. Naturally I took the opportunity to sketch in the airport on departure – with three of the four people in this sketch trying different ways of sleeping (either laid out on the seats, with your head tipped back or by hugging your backpack and using it as a pillow). You can tell by the windows at the back, that it was still dark outside by the time we caught our flight.

Thu-28-Dec-2023

76-2431 – Concourse B

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Here (at last) is the final sketch of our UK holiday, done at the airport in Dubai, during our brief layover on the way back to the Philippines. I sketched this very quickly using my #Lamy pen (my Sailor pen had run out of ink) and then added the colour at home. Airports are one of my favourite places to practice sketching people. Funnily enough the guy in the centre ended up sitting next to me…and then was next to me when we collected our baggage!

Mon-24-Jul-2023

76-2430 – Terminal 1

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Here is my last sketch from our trip to the UK, naturally done at the airport. Although our flight boarded late, there were very few places to sit in Terminal 1 of Manchester airport. We walked through the nicer part of the airport (lots of coffee bars, places to eat and seating), and then through some pokey corridors, to get to Terminal 1. Then we stood around for ages (waiting for them to open the gate) and then were finally herded into some seated areas. Despite the long wait overall we only sat down for 15 minutes before boarding, so I just did the ink-work for this sketch on the spot. I added the colour (using watercolour pencils for a change) at home.

Sun-23-Jul-2023