After my 6 days in Rio I headed back to Sao Paulo for the last few days. Back to the same hotel and back to the lovely Jardins area. Coming back to a familiar area when you are travelling has a slight ‘home’ feeling. Not so much that it feels like home but more that...
CONTINUE READINGMy final day in Rio was spent hanging out in a cafe with a group of local urban sketchers and a few of the remaining visitors. Along with the locals with have Luxembourg, Canada, Singapore/UK, USA. I was very happy to have a chance to visit the Santa Teresa area again! (If I...
CONTINUE READINGImmediately after the workshop with the architecture students described in the previous post I headed for my hotel… and ended up spending a lot of ‘quality time’ there for the rest of my stay in Rio due to a very nasty cold /virus. The other three hotels I had stayed at this trip all had...
CONTINUE READINGI was thrilled and honoured to be asked (alongside Marc Holmes) to give a workshop/demo to a group of students from the College of Architecture and Urbanism – Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. A special thanks to Rafa – Professor of Graphic Expression at the college for the invitation. Marc and I met the...
CONTINUE READINGDay 2 in Rio was the BIG day… visiting two of the top tourist destinations and getting a feeling for its incredible setting. It turned out to be a big output day despite being surprisingly relaxing… doing a number of quick large panoramic landscapes. These are impressive in scale in my sketchbook but translate poorly...
CONTINUE READINGMonday morning Esther, Suhita, Lynne and I left Paraty for Rio. Getting heavy trolley bags to the bus station wasn’t that simple… we got a wheelbarrow to the edge of the historic area and then only had a little distance to carry or pull our bags over those crazy cobblestones (the wheels of my bag...
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