melting pot #16 & #17

monthly update on my website: les illustrations de lapin

le café du matin

chez hélène pé cet été.

calamar à rétropropulsion

en chemin vers la bretagne, nous avons fait escale aux "machines de l'île" à nantes, et j'ai été hypnotisé par l'imaginaire des créatures de l'atelier et part le projet de carrousel gigantesque et jules vernesque en cours: le manège des mondes marins.
35 de ces créatures peupleraient ce manège de 25m de haut, et emporteraient avec elles 80 passagers entre abysses, fonds marins et surface.
je rêve d'y passer mes journées à dessiner chaque machine, à en admirer les mouvements, la mécanique, la patine du bois et du métal…

plougastel

nini & mikael

quimper

c'est la rentrée

et j'ai du pain sur la planche.

uss intrepid

skyline

central park
downtown

museum of natural history

in nyc.

yellow cab

skyscrapers

781, 5th ave

I ♥ ny

sketching the urban sketchers

the first urban sketching symposium in portland is over, and I'm back to barcelona (with some insomnia, I'm still awake at 4am…). it seems to be already far away, and I look at my sketchbook to remind me the amazing moments we all spent together. only one regret: it was to short.
it was also a great opportunity to meet a lot of urban sketchers, and for many of them, for the first time. but I had the strange feeling that we already known each other, from sharing our sketching for the last year and a half.

gabi, the seattle sketcher and isabel from mauritania just after my arrival in seattle.

gérard who came from liège, belgium.

liz & borromini from australia, at their first week of a very long trip.


tia and her husband albert from singapore.

pete and his "incroyable tenu de crayon"! the most british of the meeting.

simo for her birthday (I want a birthday like this one, full of sketchers from all over the world).

matt on his way back from roma, the hippie sketcher.

kumi from tokyo.

shiho from los angeles.

jason and jesse from brooklyn.

veronica from new york, on her way back from barcelona and paris (and still jet-lagged…).

and isabel again for her last evening in seattle, doing a portrait duel.

sorry laura and kurt, I did not catch you this time, we will have to meet again ;)

a real pleasure to meet all of you,
best wishes, and happy holydays, I'm leaving for bretagne for a couple of weeks.

back to barcelona

(but for only 2 days)

"this is a woodstock of sketching"

the first international urban sketching symposium in portland (oregon) is over, and I already dream about a next edition…
it was an incredible experience, thanks gabi for leading that group of creasy worldwide sketchers. more than 10 nationalities were represented, and I met for the first time many of the usk correspondents.
many sketches were done, have a look at the symposium blog and the flickr group for more!

the instructors: simo, jason, tia, isabel, matt, veronica, gabi, frank and I.

the closing reception, and exhibition of participants sketchbooks.

isabel's talk about mauritanie

urban line group sketching the water tank.



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