BCN USk Symposium sketches

Alright, so here they are. I promised Neta, my USk flatmate for 3 nights, that I'd post them:

Sketches from the 4th International Urban Sketching Symposium in Barcelona, July 2013.

 

Sketches are posted in their chronological order.

I was dealing with a couple of unexpected health issues, not sleeping and food problems made it difficult to be 100% there throughout the day and sketch in that hot climate. 

I did not meet as many people as I would have liked and I did not manage to splash as many sketches onto my sketchbook paper as I had planned, but I gave it my best.

I would not have missed it for the world :-)

ZRH to AMS

I went to Holland last weekend to visit R's gran. We spent every hour with her we could before flying back again.
So here are just the airport and in-flight sketches:

That's it for now folks, I need to go now and do some homework and studying.

Art book corner

I've not been at home very much this past week, so I'm staying in for the weekend before it all starts over again next week. Home time ☺!
I sketched the corner of the room with all my art books. It's getting more difficult to fit them all into that bookcase. Not complaining at all though.

Georg Fischer

Unfinished sketch from this morning.

Georg Fischer (abbreviated +GF+) is a Swiss manufacturer of piping systems for water treatment and corrosion fluids, as well as oil and gas markets. +GF+ is a multinational corporation with 120 facilities around the world, 12,500 employees and US$ 4 billion in sales per year. The company's origins go back to 1802 when Johann Conrad Fischer (1773–1854) bought a mill in the Mühlental valley near Schaffhausen, Switzerland and developed a copper smelting works.

Cooling off in the Rhine

After a very long and very hot day R and I went to cool off at the Rhine today. It felt like the hottest day yet and the Rhine must have reached a steady temperature of 24°C by now.

I had a wonderful time sketching and hanging my feet into the water.

Niklausenplatz

I have just returned from the 4th International Urban Sketching Symposium, which was fantastic but did not quite go the way I would have liked it to. 

Early on, I just did not feel well, sleep well, and eventually I needed to stay in bed because of a fever. So, I might devote a blog post to the Symposium, but if I dont - that is the reason and I hope you understand. I attended the workshops I wanted to take (except two), and I am incredibly grateful in spite of all that didn't go according to plan. 

With all that new knowledge and understanding that I could gain over those three days, I ventured out  in my neighbourhood today to do a sketch and apply some of what I learned.

It was a lovely sunny evening and I thought I had picked a really nice spot to settle down for a while to sketch, but soon all sorts of bugs were crawling on my arms and legs, and there was no way I could avoid them.

Thankfully I was distracted enough by the "Words" episode from Radiolab, a podcast that James Gurney recently shared as one of the things he listens to during work. I have listened to a couple of episodes from that podcast, and it's highly informative and entertaining at the same time. "Words" was especially interesting from a linguistic point of view, which is what I studied at unversity. 

So there, go and listen to it! :-)

I used 3 Daniel Smith watercolor tube colors: Ultramarine Blue, Alizarin Crimson and Aureolin Yellow and a A4 Moleskine watercolor sketchbook.

In other news, I am starting a new job tomorrow, so it's bedtime for me now. Fingers crossed!

Reichenbach Fall

Yesterday was devoted to all things Sherlock and the Reichenbach Fall.

I hoped to be joined by Stjepan and Birgit, but Birgit could not make it due to other travel commitments. Bon voyage Birgit!

It was worth the one way 3 hour train ride. I got to be all nerdy and fangirly about Sherlock and even got my very own deerstalker hat!

I could not resist!

A few more photos:

Just before the Reichenbach Fall (which you can see in the background), there is a private clinic.
For all of those who could not deal with the end of season 2 of the BBC Sherlock series?
In any case, I thought it was rather fitting.

The actual Reichenbach

Click to enlarge this photo and see where Sherlock and Moriarty "officially" fell (marked by a white star).
If you ask me, they would have found Moriarty's body quite quickly.
No way he would have just disappeared forever and without a trace. 

A rainbow!

Holmes final note.

I cannot wait for season 3 of the BBC Sherlock series!