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83-2616 – Courtyard in the rain

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I am really behind with posting my sketches…because I have been so busy going out sketching! Anyway here is yet another one from the event with Instituto Cervantes Manila (ICM) last weekend. After lunch it was raining a little so we all had to find somewhere to shelter and sketch. I positioned myself under an archway and drew the courtyard of the Institute. The cobbled stone floor was wet and I was trying to get the reflections … but I wasn’t satisfied with how it looked, so I finished off quickly and moved on to another one. In the background you can see some Segway scooters…maybe some tourists were using them to get around Intramuros?

Sat-9-Mar-2024

83-2615 – Charles IV King of Spain

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Here is the second sketch I did after the initial talk of Enrique Flores at the ICM workshop last Saturday. This statue in the Plaza de Roma, in front of Manila Cathedral, was originally erected in 1824 (and later reinstated in 1981) to honour Charles IV of Spain having sent the first batch of smallpox vaccine to the Philippines. In my sketch the king looks like he’s about to fall off his pedestal. The building in the background is the Governor’s Palace and was built in 1976.

Sat-9-Mar-2024

83-2614 – Manila Catheral

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This is the first sketch I did after the initial talk of Enrique Flores at the ICM workshop on Saturday. Enrique gave us 40 tips on sketching, one of which was about including people to give a sense of scale – so I deliberately included the crowds outside the Cathedral. For a change I also masked off the edges of this sketch before painting (instead of using a wobbly line)…got to get some washi tape though.

Sat-9-Mar-2024

83-2613 – Instituto Cervantes

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Here is the first sketch I did when I joined the “Intramural” workshop with Enrique Flores in Intramuros. I had expected bad traffic and difficulty parking (neither of which happened), so I set off really early, and ended up with time to do this sketch of the ICM building, before things began. During the workshop Enrique mentioned that your first sketch is often not so successful…so I am counting this as my duff warm up effort.

Sat-9-Mar-2024

82-2587 – 1959 Cadillac Sedan DeVille

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On Sunday last weekend we had the opening of the #UrbanSketchersQuezonCity Pride at 5: Fifth Anniversary Exhibition at the main exhibition hall of the Presidential Car Museum, Quezon Memorial Circle (running until March 18). After the opening I drew this (I can’t resist visiting the museum without sketching at least one car!). The car displayed is similar to the one that Diosdado Macapagal (who served as the ninth President of the Philippines from 1961 to 1965) reserved for state guests and occasions. To me it looks like Batmans car!

Sun-4-Feb-2024

82-2574 – Sketchers in the shade

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Here is the last sketch I did with #UskQuezonCity at the Tandang Sora shrine last weekend. I managed to find a shady spot and sketch the building in which a little exhibition and gallery space is housed. Eventually nearly all of us sketchers ended up sitting in the shade of this building…and you can just about pick them out in my sketch.

Sun-21-Jan-2024

82-2573 – Flag-less poles

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Here is the second sketch I did with #UskQuezonCity at the Tandang Sora shrine last weekend. For this one I decided to sketch the buildings outside the compound. Like in my last one my choice of scene depended on finding a shady spot to sit.

Sun-21-Jan-2024

82-2572 – Flames at shrine

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Here is my first sketch done with #UskQuezonCity at the Tandang Sora shrine on the weekend. We were there to celebrate the 212th anniversary of her birth. I sketched the same place back in October last year and learnt then that she offered shelter and medical aid to the Filipino revolutionaries. This time I had to hunt for a shady spot and ended up sketching the monument from a slightly awkward angle.

Sun-21-Jan-2024

80-2535 – On top of the city

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I am jumping ahead a little with this post, done after my little workshop on bookbinding with #UskQuezonCity last Sunday. We held the workshop at the @MuseoNiManuelQuezon, which is a mausoleum/museum (which I didn’t even know existed) on the ground floor of the Quezon Memorial Shrine, containing the remains and memorabilia of Manuel Quezon, the first president of the Commonwealth of the Philippines. I didn’t get a chance to look round the museum but we were lucky enough to be allowed to climb up to the top of the shrine, up the few hundred steps of a narrow spiral staircase in one of the columns of the shrine. The views were fantastic.

Sun-10-Dec-2023