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| trying to warm up in a small cafe after the rain in Sintra. |
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| (top) inside tram 12E in Lisbon; (middle) view into the Alfama neighborhood; (bottom) quick impression of arched vaults in a cathedral. |
originally the thought was that this would give me more sketching time - just set me down somewhere and leave me for a couple hours! - but of course that's never how it works out. the weather was (of course) colder and wetter than we had hoped; and there are always too many interesting things to see...as i've said previously, the choice when visiting somewhere new is always: either sit there and record narrowly what's in front of you; or cover more ground and actively experience more broadly the new surroundings. as much as i crave the former, i find the latter is more important. at any rate, as a result, the sketches are mostly little snippets from our experience around town.
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| (top) cool clock in an apparently famous bar in Lisbon...not the best drawing, but in my defense, it was dark and i was tired...and probably a little bzzzd; (bottom) quick shivering impression of Sintra in the pouring rain.. |
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| (top) a tiny sewing machine that my wife was coveting. i actually remembered it wrong - it was red, and the box was blue; (bottom) vintage radio (we saw many) and the'discoverer' of Brasil! |
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| Palacio Nacional da Pena in Sintra..it rained hard when we were visiting Sintra, but there was a brief interlude while here..the black clouds were certainly very forbidding! |
our week in lisbon was followed by our obligatory visit with family in germany. i was still hobbled by my ankle, but as we were in familiar territory, there was less need to 'explore', which meant a little more time to sit and sketch...but only a little, because after a week, one of my new nephews (very likely) gave me a nasty bug that wiped me out for the remainder of our trip. no christmas presents for him!!
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| (left) seemed like all of Augsburg was under construction; (right) for some reason, the side of the Gärtnerplatz (München) i chose to sit on was where all the homeless people hung out. go figure... |
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| (left top) also in München...don't know why i always draw parked cars...i guess it's a challenge to make them look like actual models..maybe also the reflections i find interesting..(bottom left to right) the idea was to do a panorama of sorts from Fuggerplatz (Augsburg)...kinda worked..sort of... |
