Venezuelan Independence Day at the Museo de Transporte

Today is Independence day, pretty low key now, which is really sad and it absolutely chucked it down with rain.  USKCCS met at the Museo de Transporte and we were supposed to move around throughout the morning but because of the rain we started and ended in the hangar.   I am far too impatient to sit and draw machinery carefully so did some very abstracted views of a turbine and the workings of a propeller and a few very inaccurate drawings of planes.  Conclusion, I love to fly, hate drawing planes!

Hoy es el  5 de Julio cuando firmo el acta de Independencia... no es como antes, que me da tristeza y ademas cayo un aguacero, diluvio... lo que sea.... ibamos a mover por el museo pero al fin quedamos atrapados en el hangar.  No me gusta dibujar maquinaria, no tengo paciencia asi que hizo un par de vistas muy abstractas de una turbina y maquina de propulsion y algunos malas de aviones.  Conclusion, me encanta volar, odio dibujar aviones!

Trying to get back into the rhythm of things.....

I am finding it hard to settle, must get back to sketching and painting again.  On Saturday I went to the church in Plaza Candelaria, they have finished the outside and are now painting the inside and it is looking splendid, even though some of the figures/saints are missing... Fernandos Corazon de Jesus, which was a shock.. presumably they are doing restoration work on them.  Today was lazy and just sketched on the terrace.

Encuentro difícil ubicarme de nuevo, así que tengo que empezar a dibujar y pintar.  El Sábado fui a la iglesia en la Plaza Candelaria, han terminado afuera pero siguen pintando el interior y esta quedado bello pero estaba sorprendida que algunos de los figuras/santos no están, incluyendo el Corazón de Jesus, el favorito de Fernando.   Supongo que están haciendo restauración.  Hoy flojera!  Me quede en la terraza a trabajar.

Great times with great people. Jinshitan, at the bell and the newly named "sky bar"!

Final Random Chinese sketches

                   A mixture of places, people and memories of a great time in North East China.

International Day at DAIS

....and eating in China!

Nesburgs, Mothers Taste, picnics up the hill at the "sky bar" and in Lushun and a cafe in Kaifaqu.
The braised backbone of pork is probably the tastiest dish I have ever eaten.  The beaming, big eyed waitress dancing attendance on Cos made it all the more entertaining!!!!

China, China and more China!

Sketches done during my few months in China.  Often done fast because it was either cold, windy or we were on the move!  These were all done at Golden Pebble Beach Resort, Jinshitan.
Bosquejos hechos durantes mis pocos meses en China.  Muchas veces hechas muy rapidos porque o era muy frio, habia mucho viento o andabamos!