プレシンポジウムのウォーミングアップスケッチマラソン
[Kumi Matsukawa from Tokyo] It took me 26 houres from NRT to Manchester including transit at Abu Dhabi international airport. I utirised this long houres as great experimenting opportunity so I drew whatever I felt like to capture.
UAEへの旅
Going on a package tour means you travel with a group of people according to the schedule. Often you can see and visit many places without worrying extra expense… But you have less free time. Still I made the most of opportunity to have sketching. Day 1, Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque, Abu Dhabi ( five minutes sketch done while we were given 8 minutes to take photo of it) Day 2, A shop assistant in the Dubai Mall, Dubai. He offered me some sample tasting of tea. He said that he is from the Philippines. Inside the Dubai Mall. To see those Emirati people in this huge mall in their […]
理髪店
One of the pleasures of this place is to go to the barber. I always had shaved myself but in the last month I have enjoyed the pleasure to get an emirati beard cut. And now I wearting a beard for the first time. You can see a picture of me with the beard on my blog. Here is a sketch I did some time ago in Abu Dhabi: After eating in a local emirati restaurant, Andrew got a haircut at an indian Barber shop. Check the fingers of the barber. He really holds the scissors like that. By the way I’m leaving for good today the UAE. I’m going […]
The restaurant at the end of the universe
That place from the famous radio show “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” from Douglas Adams is what came to my mind when I first saw this restaurant on the top of the Jabel Hafeet Mountain in Al Ain. The building stands isolated on the observation platform; sun and wheather have done their work fadding the red color of the sign that reminds you something come out from an Edward Hooper painting. There is something absurd in finding such a building here, I got the feeling that is out of place, an architecture not related to the place but transplanted through some kind of cosmic force here. But is at […]
Abu Dhabi Bookfair
The Abu Dhabi book fair got an illustrators corner this year were I made a lot of new friends (and did many portraits of them, you can see me painting on my blog) I never though about it, but bookfairs could be very good for making contacts and also for doing sketches. I did one of some emirati women sewing. They were in a stand from a book of the History of Emirati women clothes. And also in the Poetry Corner, where poets and writers gather to hear each others works. In the drawing: the fantastic poet Suheir Hammad on the left page and on the righ in the middle […]
Kathakbox
The British Council hosted the Show Kathakbox from the Sonia Sabri company. This UK based dance company mixes traditional Kathak indian dance with hip hop and contemporary dance. A conference took place too days before the show. more about the company: http://www.ssco.org.uk/ The group offered two shows one in Abu Dhabi and one in Dubai. I sketched the performance, too. It was really difficult to catch the movement, since some times they the dancers were really fast. You can see the performers dancing in my blog
ヤス・ホテル・アブダビ
友人のワセルとアブダビに出かけ、ヤス・ホテルをチェックするために立ち寄った。F1サーキットの中に広がる魅力的な建物だ。(外観のスケッチを描くべきだったが、建築家の友人のためにリンクを貼っておく）私たちはテラスラウンジでドリンク（ノンアルコール、フルーツコクテル）を飲んだ。素晴らしい空間だ。建物自体がこのメブレインで覆われていて、日光を遮り、面白い影を作っている。テラスは開放的な空間ですが、このメブレインに囲まれていると、室内は本当に居心地がよく感じられます。メブレインは夜になるとライトアップされ、絶えず色を変え、[...][ 続きを読む
قلعة سيجيا
アル・アインのセギア要塞。(アラビア語のキーボードの書き方がやっとわかった。）この砦は街から離れているため、観光客はあまり訪れない。とても小さく、オマーン国境に面している。私の筆は砂漠の砂でいっぱいで、そこに含まれる鉱物が色に面白い質感を生み出している。最初のスケッチは外から描いたもので、日当たりのいい部分を白く残して影を描いただけだ。注意深く見ると、建物の白と空の間に線がないことに気づくだろう。
アル・アイン曲技飛行ショー
毎年恒例、国際曲技飛行ショーがアルアインで開催された。私は初めてショーを見た。そして正直言って、とても面白かった。しばらく座って飛行機が飛んでいるのを見ていたが、スケッチするにはあまりに速かったので、後で展示されていた飛行機や軍用ヘリコプターをスケッチした。
アブダビにおけるドイツ建国記念日
ドイツ大使館は、11月23日のドイツ建国記念日を祝うパーティーを企画した。ドイツ人がこんなにたくさん住んでいるとは知らなかった。場所はアブダビのビーチ・ロタナ・ホテルの庭園だった。パーティーはとても楽しく、料理も素晴らしかった。シュペッツェル、ザワークラウト、ヴェアスト、シュニッツェル、その他たくさんのおいしいものがあった。バンドのスケッチについては、私のブログを参照してください。