The shapes of an educator
António taught everyone how to distort buildings and streets, and I had the easy job of showing how you can do it with people too!
Relax, sketch and relax
After the trials of a full-day workshop in Portimão, a brief respite is always on the order of the day, for participants and instructors alike. Beer, some relaxed, non-constrained sketching, new acquaintances, new sketching materials, and beer.
Grotesque people and places
There’s something about misshapen sketches that attracts and amuses the eye – take gothic gargoyles and modern caricatures, a child’s ginger bread house or the latest Frank Gehry’s design – grotesque portraits and architecture sketches, when done with care, are fun to make and to look at.
Sketch fast or dry trying
At the beaches of Lagos, in southwestern Portugal, the free semi-naked models and sketchable natural landscapes abound.
Poland goes to Lisboa
One thing that relates Poland with Portugal is that they usually show up next to each other in drop-down lists when filling online registration forms.
Lessons from Portimão
Urban Sketchers Algarve and the Municipality of Portimão invited us to teach a full-day workshop, and we decided to give a a test run to a programme that we had prepared before. It’s called “The narratives of architecture and the people that experience it“
Xmas in Lagos #1
Christmas in Lagos is all about family, good wine and great food – particularly desserts!