Urban Sketcher - Kathleen Newman – an artist's journey

URBAN SKETCHING

To see more of my sketches and read the stories behind them, click on my Blog: Now is my Story (in Sketches).

I take my sketchbooks everywhere I go and they are a chronicle of my life.

While all my Urban Sketches are done on location, some have finishing touches added later. Here are a few favourite sketches.

2018/19 Australia

2017 New Zealand/Australia

2016 Singapore

2014/15 Canada/UK

2013/14 Singapore/Australia

2012 Taipei

Taiwan is a cultural shock! The main street in my neighbourhood of Wenshan.

Side alley. Drew this from a cafe, sitting on a comfy chair with a nice grass jelly drink.

This empty space opened as a small restaurant soon after (selling roast duck and BBQ pork).

View from my apartment again. A convenient scene to draw on a wet day.

I could have stayed here all day it was so peaceful.

A very busy corner. I went back twice to finish this drawing. Oops! Just noticed I've got the month wrong, time is passing too fast!

Back to the same corner, this time looking down Alley 1 at the corner with Lane 45 (which comes off Zhinan Road). It's these alleys and lanes that are the main charm of Taipei.

I've been wanting to sketch this building from the first time I saw it. It strangely comes to a point.

Sketching on a park bench at the Jingmei River Park. Looking north to the city. The tall building with the spire is the famous Taipei 101 (101 floors!). Done on site, watercolour added at home.

When it rains in Taipei, businesses provide an umbrella rack outside their establishments for customers' umbrellas. These racks can be very varied in shape, sometimes just a bucket.

Above the sink in my Taipei apartment is a draining rack cum electric dish dryer!

The buildings in Wenshan district are mainly old and grimy with interesting facades of differing windows and criss-crossing wires.