Thursday, December 4, 2008

Becoming an urban sketcher





















Usually, when I draw at public places, I try to avoid people seeing me at action, hiding behind a table in coffee shops. Today I dared to draw in the middle of the street. It was a fantastic experience! I went together with my friend Harriet, so it gave me some courage. People were passing off, stopping from time to time and giving us some comments. It was quit nice. Suddenly a young soldier girl, who stopped to look at us drawing, asked: "would you be interested in drawing me?" Obviously, we agreed. We drew quick sketches and gave them to the girl. She was very pleased! And so were we! Now I feel that I'm starting to be a real urban sketcher!








Reading Powerstation in Tel-Aviv

11 comments:

Nina Johansson said...

What a great story to go with your beautiful sketches!

Ellis Nadler said...

good story. lovely power station pic

adebanji said...

Keep it up! That's the spirit!

gabi campanario said...

consider yourself graduated from urban sketching school! terrific work and inspiring story Marina!

Richard Câmara said...

Keep it rolling, "Urban Sketcher"!! :)

marina said...

thank you all! It's very inspiring to be in this group!

João Catarino said...

Fantastic wellcome!

tpv said...

Sous le charme de votre portrait, je ne peux que vous féliciter pour toutes ces merveilleuses ambiances que vous nous proposez.
Grand merci et à bientôt,
tpv (from Waterloo Belgium)

Liz Steel said...

great sketches and a wonderful story... I hope that you venture out more - the more I do it the easier I find it becomes.

Matt J said...

Terific loose sketches

Tommy Kane said...

great portrait and drawing of your self

 

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