Something Old, Something New

I was clearing out boxes from the spare room, over the weekend, and found some sketches I'd forgotten I had done.  This is a view of the mountains rising up from the coast of Porto Pollença and neighbouring olive trees.

This is a hurried sketch of Potsdamer Platz.  I remember the busy square with many onlookers - quite unnerving.

This afternoon, I went out armed with my sketchpad and forgot all about shopping for groceries.  I ended up having an early supper at The Art House and drew the street opposite.

At the bottom of Nine Tree Hill is a tree, hung with paper cranes :) This shows a great deal of effort and not a small amount of trust.  On reflection they're peace cranes, a gesture after the riots, I guess.

I moved on to the city centre and found these ceramic penguins.  No idea why - the info stand was a beautiful chrome and perspex affair, devoid of any explanation...?

I continued on to the docks, where a painter set up her equipment to paint in front of the Gorilla and Cabot sculptures outside The Arnolfini.  Which sculpture would she paint? - BOTH.

And finally - this was the first time I sketched with my contacts in.  Not a small achievement, as they compensate for distance in my right eye and near vision in the left.  Not ideal, but I was more successful than when I'm using a computer screen, I can tell you!