Snap Drawings

We spent the weekend in Luxemburg, of all places. The tickets were cheap, to tell the truth, and we had never been - didn´t know much about it, actually - so we decided to go. Well, what a place! I am just beginning now to sort the photos, I will post more of them (and England, time just seems to fly!) eventually.

This time I handed the camera over to the husband. I am on a drawing course, after all, and I take every opportunity to exercise. Also, I was tired. We both were, but I didn´t realize just how tired untilI saw these photos of me, totally obliviously walking right past some very nice knitting graffiti. I love this stuff, and the husband noticed. I must be tired, indeed.

I did quite a bit of drawing, but the idea of sitting down in one spot for a couple of hours, like some of the sketchers I admire do, does not work well in my reality. I like to walk around, I like to see as much as possible. However, I can practice working fast, that´s what sketching is for, isn´t it? It doesn´t have to be perfect. I used my cheap A6 notebook and a pencil and just worked page after page, no more than five minutes on each, sometimes just a few seconds. Some of the sketches I worked into my journal in the evening; that turned out very well, I thought.

Not sure what I´m doing here, but probably trying to figure out some angle or proportion. I keep forgetting to hold my arm straight when I do that, and end up with all kinds of wonkiness on the page. I´ll be posting more sketches on the drawing blog over the next few weeks, if you´re curious.

The banking museum, as seen from Constitution square.

One of the railway bridges.

Inside the Bock Casemates.

The red bridge.

A snap drawing of a snap shooter, the husband on the train.
Very few lines, didn´t think anything of it at the time, but now I´m quite pleased about it.

Along the Alzette river.

From the river looking up on the city.