Repost from 2013

On 21 July, 2013, also the last day in Madrid, before I packed all the travelling sketches in the suitcase, I displayed them on the bed. The sketches were of various formats on watercolour papers, muji sketchbooks, moleskine and others. The orginal post was at this link.

Sevilla - Day 12

Our favourite breakfast place next to the hotel at Seville.

Seville - Day 11

Warming up horse carriage sketch on arrival in Sevilla. Another one on the way towards the Garden. In the evening, we met up with Inma, Orling and the local sketchers and went to the old part of Sevilla to sketch the local church.

I did post a bigger piece of the Cathedral in Sevilla at this link on 18 Aug 2013 on this blog.

Granada - Day 10

Free and easy morning I did a sketch next to the river. We had lunch again at our favourite Carmela Restaurant next to our hotel before leaving in the evening for Sevilla by train. Did a sketch during the train ride.

Granada - Day 9

The next day in Granada, we went to visit the legendary palace Alhambra. Top sketch is the entrance to Alhambra on the extreme right of the map, bottom sketch is the Alcazaba fortress inside the complex on the extreme left of the map.

Granada - Day 8

We arrived in Granada in the morning after a good sleep in the cabin of a very comfortable night train. It was a super quick sketch about 15 minutes on a very hot morning. The lunch sketch was done in the neighbourhoods of the Albaicin at almost 40 deg C. Even the waiters were wearing sunglasses! In the evening, we watched a very exciting flamingo performance inside a cave at Sacromente. We sat next to the performers that we could literally touch the dancers!

Barcelona - Day 7

On the last day of the Symposium, we were at Ginesta again for dinner. This time with Parka and Tony, their first time to this place. There were so many regular customers as I saw so many familiar faces.

Barcelona - Day 6

This is day one of symposium draw and drink session at 3CBar in CCCB, symposium venue very near to our hotel.

Barcelona - Day 4

Day 4, all of us except Paul went to visit Mies Van der Rohe pavilion. It was first built in 1929 and rebuilt 1986 at this location.

Barcelona - Day 3

Ginesta, our favourite dinner place in Barcelona.

Barcelona - Day 2

Day two in Barcelon, Miguel, Cesar and Isabel brought us to this nice restaurant for lunch after sketching Gaudi's Casa Mila and Casa Batllo. This is the third sketch in my pocket Muji Sketchbook. I will upload my loose pieces on later.

Barcelona - Day 1

First and second pages in Muji Sketchbook on Barcelona when we arrived on 6 July. The weather was so hot that I was not in the mood of doing larger loose pieces. I rather sketched with my pocket 130x130mm Muji Sketchbook over a glass of ice tea.

Madrid

I finally find time to scan the sketches of my Spain trip in July. We only have two days in Madrid. We arrived in Madrid via express train from Sevilla and it took only two and a half hour. A week later, a train from the same company Refen derailed due to high speed at a curve bend and it took 78 lives and many more injuries towards Santiago, another city in the northe west of Spain. It did send a chill to my spine for a short while when I heard the news.

Madrid's weather was hot hot hot felt like 38 to 40 deg C. I was totally unproductive under this kind of weather condition even I came from the hot and humid Singapore. The weather was so hot and dry that I develop heat rashes after Granada.

We planned to stay indoor in the afternoon so visits to musuems seemed to be the right thing to do. We visited Muse del Prado the moment we arrived at the hotel with Rafael, a Spainish sketcher we met in Singapore. It was a blessing to have Rafael traveled with us in Madrid due to the language barrier. He was a very good art guide for all the works display in the Prado Museum.

We also visited Centre de Arte Beina Sofia which housed the contemporary works including the largest Dali show in the world. The tickets were sold out for Dali show so we could only be contended with the permanents exhibits, a futuristic lovely cafe, the standard museum store and a chic cosy bookstore when I bought the last A6 Moleskine Japanese Sketchbook.

Sevilla

Sevilla Cathedral & La Giralda.
It is the largest Gothic cathedral and the third-largest church in the world. It was registered in 1987 by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. The cathedral is also the burial site of Christopher Columbus.
The statue of the Giraldillo seen here is located at the south door of the Cathedral. The original statue is found on top of the tower of the cathedral. The statue "el Giraldillo", representing The Faith.

very long sketches

Can you see these three are joined? I started the first page of the long Moleskine Japanese sketchbook on the last day of the trip in Madrid and continued the sketches for my recent Bali trip over the last long weekend from 7 to 11 Aug, 2013.

with Lapin

Lapin drew me during the workshop and we took a photo on the last day of the symposium.

Last day in Spain!

Paul and I were conducting a workshop for the 4th International Urban Sketching Symposium in Barcelona from 11 - 13 July, 2013. Together with Paul, Parka, Kiah Khien from Penang and Pramote from Bangkok, we also embarked on a sketching trips to Barcelona, Granada, Sevilla and Madrid from 06 to 21 July, 2013. On the last day in Madrid, before I pack them in the suitcase, here are the Spain sketches of various formats on watercolour papers, muji sketchbooks, moleskine and others. It will take me a while to scan them one by one and record the location.

video on symposium

video by Caroline Manceou from France captured the spirit of the symposium very well. She attended our workshop you can view around 4:20

photos of workshop P

tools for the participants

Leaving this evening for the Symposium in Barcelona, I will be giving all our participants one of these to experiment during our workshop under category "expressing yourself" at the symposium!