The Art of Doing Nothing # 4: Difference of Opinion
(ink & watercolour on paper, Café Masko, Mojacar Playa, 27/01/2009)
It was very diffcult to capture the woman telling her story… I did what I could!
I was fascinated by the incredibly excited expression on the face and body position of the woman listening to her…
The Art of Doing Nothing # 3: Summit Meeting
(ink & watercolour on paper, Café Masko, Mojacar Playa, 15/01/2009)
Quite regularly I go to a Cafe by the Beach, and sketch people spending their time there.
It is a great way for me to practise live sketching.
Well, people are quite still sitting on a Cafe terrace in the sun, but they still move quite a lot and it is a wonderful (but sometimes frustrating too!) exercise to try to catch them in some position or expression.
I much more prefer this way than to go to some figure painting meeting, where the models stand still, almost dead… this does not inspire me at all, and neither does their nakedness I must admit! I much more love to draw the stuff which people put on, sometimes they are such a funny mirror of their souls… no funny clothing on this one though.
In this case it was the contrast between the Macho with the black hair and the other people which inspired me…
The Art of Doing Nothing # 2: Café Life
(ink & watercolour on paper, Café Masko, Mojacar Playa, 15/01/2009)
One more example of this exciting life here, in Andalucia, by the sea… simply sitting in Cafés and doing nothing.
Well this kind of life might be exciting for most of the people down here, but it is not exactly my way of enjoying life… but I do enjoy watching and sketching people having this kind of life!
The Art of Reading # 7 : Chain Readers 2
(ink & watercolour on paper, Café Masko, Mojacar Playa, 14/01/2009)
Back at Cafe Masko yesterday… and again they were all reading a newspaper…
but this time, with the exception thats proves the rule!
The Art of Reading # 6 : Chain Readers
(ink & watercolour on paper, Café Masko, Mojacar Playa, 13/01/2009)
On the way back from the Driving Range yesterday, my sporty Rocker Kev Moore invited me to a coffee with a doughnut in our lovely Cafe Masco, by the beach in Mojacar, where last spring I used to sketch people. It was a little late already and most of the people had gone home for lunch, but some tables were still busy… and invariably, at each of them, there was somebody reading a newspaper…
so I simply put them all together in this sketch, which represents quite well what most of the population are doing here, in Andalucia, on a sunny day…
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