The Dearth of Horizontal A4 Watercolour Sketchbooks
After going through several huge travelogue sketchbooks, I've decided to bring a horizontal A4 sketchbook for the Barcelona trip.
Interesting. There aren't a lot of manufacturers who make horizontal A4 watercolour sketchbooks.
The only one I can think of is Moleskine with their A4 Watercolour Album. I was actually thinking about Stillman & Birn but their largest horizontal is 9 by 6 inches for the Alpha and Gamma sketchbooks.
So this has 60 pages. I just have to fill 5 big pages each day for my 12-day trip.
Ha Huy Hoang's 2012 Art book on Indiegogo
Check out this personal art book from Ha Huy Hoang (Splendid River on deviantart). He's putting it up on Indiegogo looking for funds so that he can publish it.
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I'm going to Barcelona in July 2013
I'll be in Barcelona from 9-13 July 2013. It's going to be another sketchwalk holiday — the best type of holiday!
It happens that the Urban Sketchers Barcelona Symposium 2013 is also happening around that time from 11-13 July. There are going to be a lot of sketchers in the city during those three days. I'm not attending the symposium though. I'll just be sketching around Barcelona and then joining my sketch buddies for an extended trip to Madrid after that weekend.
I know there are many Gaudi buildings there. I wonder if I can visit them all. I'm so inspired after seeing Nina Johansson's sketchbook Drawing Around Sagrada Familia, and all the watercolour travel sketchbooks by Fabrice Moireau.
What should I look out for? Or what should I not miss when I'm there?
If you guys want to hang out and sketch, I'm all for it too.
This is terribly exciting! First time in Europe!
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Seen from Boon Tat Street
Here's the sketch today drawn at Boon Tat Street.
That on the right is the Nagore Durgha shrine. It was built by Muslims of southern India in 1828-1930.
The street on the left is Amoy Street, and on the other side it's Telok Ayer Street. When the shrine was first built, Telok Ayer Street was actually a beach! That was such a long time ago. The area has since been reclaimed with land and is now populated with shops and high-rise offices.
Rotring Isograph, Graphitone on Zeta sketchbook
This is the original sketch that I think I drew in 45 minutes before I had to rush to work. I planned to show the tower in the foreground which is now cropped off. Turns out this composition is better than what I had planned because the shrine now fills more of the space. I added the graphite wash in the office.
