ブレタニーへの旅 - その1 - Carnets de Voyageフェスティバル

[Marina Grechanik, in Brest, France] ブレタニーの旅から戻ってすでに1週間が経ちますが、まだこの素晴らしい冒険の強い影響を受けています... 私はLapinから、ブレストの第9回旅行・ルポスケッチブック祭 " ici & ailleurs " でUSkグループの一員にならないかと誘いを受けました。エキスポの後、Lapinは私たちをOuessant島への旅に誘ってくれました。何をしに行くのか、全く想像がつきませんでした!1週間ちょっとでしたが、素晴らしくクレイジーな仲間たちと少なくとも1ヶ月は過ごしたような気がしました [...]...

ブレストの旅行記フェスティバルで、アーバンスケッチャーの愉快なバンドが登場しました

[by Marion Rivolier from Paris, France]   With fifteen other Urban Sketchers, I was invited by Lapin to exhibit at the Festival of Carnets de voyage, Ici & Ailleurs in Brest at the far end of Brittany in France. We showed our works together in two large spaces, which we have transformed into curio cabinet : an accumulation of drawings, sketchbooks, display cases, boxes of all kinds and small accessories, each one stranger than the next: skulls and bones of animals, reptiles, shells, jars, etc. This created a pretty amazing set! The above watercolor presents my part (with a watercolor of a puppeteer enlarged and printed on a human scale), […]

ブレスト - 古さと新しさが共存する街

[Guest post by Anne-Laure Jacquart in Brest, France] Brest, a French city in Brittany, is a very special city, as it was almost totally destroyed during World War 2 and had to be rebuilt after the war. Some old French remains are then combined with modern architecture. The resulting mix is interesting to sketch! On my first sketch (below), a preserved old tower from the 14th century (the Tour Tanguy) stands alongside a huge concrete bridge (the Pont de Recouvrance) rebuilt in 1947. There is even a tree sculpture (to the right of the sketch) added to the mix. Even for the concrete bridge and the apartment blocks, I decided […]