Zanzibar: a sketchers paradise!

The first time I heard the word Zanzibar I was a little kid, I didn’t know where it was, but it sounded far away, tropic and exotic..

Last year I got a commission to teach workshop of Illustration in Dar es Salaam together with Stephanie Ledoux. It was a join project between the Goethe Institute and the Alliance Francaise.  So I checked where else I can visit when travelling there and there it was the island of Zanzibar.. reading about it only feed more  my imagination,  I read about the city of Stone Town and its arabic past..as capital of the Oman.

Stone town is a very safe city, and a very relaxing place to draw, people are extremely friendly

Stephanie joined me in Zanzibar and we spent 4 days exploring the city and  sketching together, that was the first time we actually  met and help us later to make a great team at our workshop. You know that travelling with other sketchers make you draw more and learn a lot from each other.  Stephanie’s work is amazing, she carries her book of wonder as I called, an old photo album that she fills with collages and painted color backgrounds. She does not draw chronologically but according to the subject she will find a page that fits the mood.

So check Stephanie Ledoux blog you will get amaze of her work She also posted about this trip here and here. You can also follow other sketches of the trip in my blog: Omar-paint.blogspot.com