UrbanSketcher

123-3574 – Lewes Priory Park

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After our long walk over the Downs we walked around Lewes seeing the castle, a church, down the Twittens (a “twitten” is an old Sussex word for a narrow path or alleyway running between walls or buildings and Lewes has a famous network of these Saxon pathways), through Southover Grange Gardens (set next to the 16th-century Southover Grange Manor House) where we had ice creams and then to Priory Park. This is a public park build around the remains of the 11th-century Priory of St. Pancras, mostly demolished in 1537, I believe by Henry VIII.

Wed-29-Jul-2026

107-3180 – Chair sketched in the crease

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I sketched this as I waited for my wife to come back from her operation in PGH. The doc gave me a scare when I was called down to the OR. But it turned out it was just so she could tell me that everything went well! Now it’s just recovery time. After I did this sketch I realised the chair actually folds out into another bed…for a second watcher! Somehow I keep extending my sketches onto the next page…maybe I should switch to a square format sketchbook?

Wed-16-Jul-2025

107-3179 – Gloomy towers outside PGH

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I sketched this the day my wife went in for an operation at Philippine General Hospital (PGH). We had checked in the previous day and then had a sleepless night with doctors and nurses continually coming into the room to take her vitals, check she has taken her preparatory meds and put her on a drip. I was the official ‘watcher’ – that is a person who stays with a patient in hospital to provide support and assistance – mostly because hospitals don’t seem to have sufficient resources to constantly monitor patients.

Wed-16-Jul-2025

106-3174 – Left-over dinner

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Sometimes I feel a bit stuck for subjects and motivation for sketching – so my solution is often to turn to the #DrawTipTuesday advice of @KoosjeKoene, which is alway a good source of ideas and encouragement. This sketch is of some baked beans I made, plus a left-over baked potato.

Thu-10-Jul-2025

106-3173 – Painting of a wall

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I sketched this when accompanying my wife for her consultation at PGH. We sat on hard benches in corridors and there was lots of waiting. We thought we were ½ hour late, but the doctor hadn’t even shown up by the time we got there.

Tue-8-Jul-2025

104-3131 – Royal Pavilion Gardens

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This sketch was done on our last full day in Hove/Brighton starting with a visit to Art in the Park (in St. Anne’s Well Gardens, Hove). Then lunch from Pompoko…where there was nowhere to sit so we sat in the park – and I sketched this (I used washi tape to mask the edges for a change). The rest of day involved visits to “Artists Open Houses” – part of Brighton Festival, which was very inspiring. When we stopped for a break at Pelicano Coffee Co. in the Lanes we also had a go at doing one minute sketch of each other…and I’ve added these to this post.

Sketches of me
Sketches of May
Sketches of Louisa
Sketches of Kelly
Sketches of Hannah

Sat-24-May-2025

103-3114 – Café sketching

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Lights at High Grounds Café

After sketching #UskQuezonCity on Tomas Morato Avenue we joined a huge crowd of fellow sketchers in High Grounds Café for a bit of lunch, chat and an opportunity to test out Ohuhu Markers. I sketched the lights and the patterned wallpaper.

Sketch by Pamella S. Simioni
Líbero Badaró – Centro SP

The prompt for this day of International Urban Sketchers week was “giving”, which was appropriate as I finally received the sketches that I exchanged for two of mine with São Paulo, Brazil from the same time in 2024 (see post 87-2693 and 87-2692). The first sketch is by Pamella S. Simioni – I hope I got the right person. The second one was done by @andrawde and is of Rua Líbero Badaró a road in the centre of São Paulo. Each postcard had a nice little message on the back…I used google translate to try and understand what Pamella had said!

Sketch of me by al Vargas

I also exchanged sketches with my friend Al Vargas (@pixl8tor). I am including in this post the quick sketch he did of me.

Sat-3-May-2025

103-3095 – Ear nose throat

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Here is some more people sketching done at the Medical Center Taguig – this time for me to get my ears unblocked. Hospital waiting areas are great spots to surreptitiously draw people … especially when you have to wait for ages.

Wed-30-Apr-2025