More Symposium Pics

 

I'm afraid I am too excited about the great time I had in Lisbon to wait for my scanner to be fixed so I have taken photographs of my sketchbooks instead, which has worked surprisingly well.

 

One of the things that was really fun about the symposium was that people hardly ever stopped drawing.

Every day there were a couple of lectures during the afternoon, in between our workshops. They were inspirational stuff and you might think folks would have used the time to rest their drawing arms, but no - we all carried on, drawing the lecture theatre, the speakers and each other!

As you can see, I even got out my watercolours in the auditorium, and I was far from the only one.
 
I also experimented a lot with using watercolours in a quite different way, something I picked up from my first workshop with Richard Camara: putting the colour down first, in a very casual, sometines almost arbitrary manner, then working line in afterwards, like this 10 minute quickie:

We drew each other at dinner, we drew our dinner... we were, frankly, a little obsessive. John and I were stying in quite a fancy hotel (he got us a deal) and I suspect it was the 1st time anyone had got paints out at breakfast - I was very carefully not to plip on the linen!

At the end of the symposium, there was a SketchCrawl, where the public were also invited to take part. It was brilliant to see 100s of people, dotted all round the massive Praca do Comercio, all sketching away together. We took a group photo at the end (you can just see me top left):

This is one of the sketches I did during the SketchCrawl, again, putting down the colour first and then adding the ink once it was dry:

I have loaded all my photographs, and the sketches I have snapped or scanned thus far, into a special Flickr account, if you are interested to see more.