Two profile portraits at the IMT office with short poem Ink and Watercolour Urban Sketch.
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Urban Sketching People at a Government Waiting Room in Faro (Day 127)

Day 127 of sketching people in the waiting room of a government office in Faro. Experimenting with page layout by adding signs to help convey the location of the sketch, and filling negative space with some poetic reportage.

ink and watercolour sketch of person in the waiting room
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Urban Sketching at Out Patients (Day 113)

Day 113 of sketching people in ink and watercolour. A return trip to the hospital, and filling the waiting time with sketches of other people waiting.

ink and watercolour sketch of person in the waiting room
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Urban Sketching at Out Patients (Day 109)

Day 109 of sketching people in ink and watercolour. An unfortunate trip to the hospital, but filling the waiting time with sketches.

Urban sketching people on the Easyjet flight from Faro to Gatwick London. Ink and Watercolour Urban Sketch. Sketching the queue for the toilet.
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Urban Sketching People at the Airport and on the Plane (Day 75)

Day 75 of sketching people. Urban Sketching people in the departures long of Faro Airport, and on the plane from the front row – so lots of toilet queue sketches. Experimenting with different compositions using an outlined oblong shape in the background to tie people and objects together on an A6 page layout.

Man in a yellow shirt and turquoise jeans playing on a pink phone, and wearing pink glasses. This scene is in Faro airport and there's a poem of reportage.
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Urban Sketches of People at Faro Airport (Day 42)

Day 42 of Sketching people in ink and watercolour. Three urban sketches capturing daily observation commentary at Faro Airport in Portugal. Experimenting with reportage by adding text to two of the sketches, and a short poem about my urban sketching experience at the airport.

Faro Architecture and street scenes
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First Train Trip to Faro

First train trip to explore Faro and photograph buildings and scenes that inspire me to sketch.