Art
After working two hours on a more detailed version, it was getting dark and I decided to leave it for other time to continue. Instead, I started a new night version that turned out as this half an hour sketch. So far, I like more this quick version. Perhaps, for this one I didn’t think too much and did it based on feeling.
Drawing with a brush and ink at Seneca AntiCafe in Bucharest.
“… she looked at the sides of the well, and noticed that they were filled with cupboards and book-shelves; here and there she saw maps and pictures hung upon pegs”
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll
Travelling for my work duties by the tram 45 in Bucharest. A shaking vehicle is always a challenge for drawing and ends up with hard to control line work. It seems that the passenger in front of me is going to an exam as he is trying to learn something by heart. He opens to read then closes his notebook to repeat. I can relate to such kind of last-minute learning, Sometimes it worked sometimes it didn’t.
Having lunch at Tuk Tuk, an authentic Thai restaurant in Bucharest.
A brief sketching session at Bucharest North railway station while it was snowing in the morning. Some snowflakes fell on paper melting and smudging the ink, creating tiny blots. Passengers rush in and out of the trains and so do I as the trains can depart at any time. Before I found some colors in my bag pack the middle one already left.
Seneca AntiCafe in Bucharest is an informal library where I found some good books about art to browse. After switching a book about composition to one about the center of interest I decided to capture a view in the Silence room.
This time sketching at Putul lui Zamfir (Zamfir’s Well) Street in Bucharest. Trying to use more traditional media, such as charcoal and pastel in this case. I have been relying too much on fineliners and markers lately. Perhaps it is much easier to carry them everywhere.
On my way back from work to home I stopped to sketch at Basarab railway station in Bucharest, that is mainly used for short-distance commuter trains. I would like to draw more trains. So, I will return more often here to study trains.
Even though it has been freezing cold, I wanted to sketch outside today. So I took my small watercolors (all my utensils and sketchbook fitted in my pockets) and went to Romanian Peasant Museum, Bucharest. The wooden church (from 17th century) that contrasts with the skyscraper seen in the background was moved to Bucharest from Hunedoara County in 1992. Now after being reconstructed it is inside of the interior courtyard.