One month has past since the 5th Urban Sketching Symposium

It has been a dreamy period. Before I go there I was kind of worried that I may experience some difficulties and challenges, for example just to find the way how to get certain places, or just to order certain plate, etc.. But how lovely to have friends ( new and old) near or kind people around me all the time during my stay in Brazil. I felt safe and joy as if I was with families. Here are series of sketches I did before, during and after the Symposium. Meeting and learning from fellow instructors in the workshops as well as just sketching with other sketchers sat side by side is really influential!

Time killing sketch done in Narita airport, Tokyo, Japan.

Check out time sketch in the hotel. My only sketch done in Rio.

The first lunch time in Paraty.

Dinner time gathering in Paraty.

Before the symposium we had cruising and sketching.

When the ship anchored, people started to jump into the water to swim to get the small island so the person on the left was gone before I finish drawing her.

One hour sketch done by the river. This was to practice for my demo.

A work from Behzad Bagheri’s workshop A: The joy of movement

It was such a new method and his drill to liberate our way of drawing from stereotypical drawing rules really took scales from my eyes. ( paint three colors on the paper without intention to capture any scene, then after making the paint, look around and find the object/scene that fits the mark you made.)

Lunch time sketch.

A work from Suhita Shirodkar’s workshop O: Never Fear The People

After practicing capturing moving/ walking people on the street with simple line drawing, we then tried to capture all the people on the street as much as possible in your drawing while time to time capturing the detail of the back ground such as buildings, pebbled road. People come and go, so get the movement in certain moment when same posture repeated, sometimes get the motion from other individual when the first one has gone.

Dinner time sketch.

Early morning one hour sketch. This one was also done to practice my demo.

This day in the morning I went to sketch walk. A riverside view.

Kiah Kiean was also sketching near me by the river. I borrowed his ink and twig pen and sketched him.

I took Richard Alomar’s Activity A6: Unfolding a sketching story

I definitely practice this map making next time when I go on the trip. I’m such a direction deaf and this kind sketch memo will helps me a lot to understand the place.

Dinner time sketch.

Early morning sketch.

A work from Norberto Dorantes’s workshop I: Line Flow/Live Spot

Drawing objects with unbroken-line gives me new insight and new look on my drawings.

Again, from Norberto Dorantes’s workshop. This time put some limited colors on the unbroken-line drawing. I find myself observing things more carefully while practicing this method.

Open Sketchwalk time sketch.

My last early morning sketch in Paraty.

A view from the hotel in Sao Paulo

Morning view in front of the park in Sao Paulo

This one I tried to mimic my fellow sketcher Nina’s work. She made similar angled beautiful sketch.

Time killing sketch in the GRU airport in Sao Paulo ( I spent time there nearly 12 hours in total)

Airport sketch.

Airport sketch.

Boarding and inside the plane ( Sao Paulo to Dubai)

Airplane sketch ( Dubai to Narita)

Again, many thanks to those organizers who made this wonderful time happened!