PORTRAITS FOR LIFE

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…

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