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| SQ Grand Mosque © Sue Pownall 2012 |
It's that time of year when I hit exhausted, which here in the Gulf is not helped by the heat - officially 48c as I type.
It can't 'officially' go over 50 because work has to stop, this crazy temperature is NOT the reality. Feels like 41? No way more like feels like 51!!!!
Anyway it's been a strange few weeks. After the radio interview, which I shared in my
last post, I was interviewed about my sketching for Y Magazine. The edition came out last Tuesday and below is the double page spread.
The Pdf is here: http://www.y-oman.com/issues/224.pdf
With both the radio and the magazine interviews focusing on my sketching I thought I should do some, so on Sunday I went to Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque. I was meeting a friend there who had never been. I arrived early in order to do the outside scene; sat in my car out of the heat of course.
Top and below.
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| © Sue Pownall 2012 |
Whilst my friend wandered around, I found a spot to sit on the carpet and tried to capture some of the beauty of the mosque. However a quick sketch can hardly do it justice, so I must return with a whole morning to spare.
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| © Sue Pownall 2012 |
Finally, as my friend listened to a man talk about the mosque and Islam, I spent a couple of minutes trying to get an impression of the chandelier.
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| © Sue Pownall 2012 |
Drawing in an A5 sketchbook can only begin to capture it because:
The largest chandelier known in the world,
weighs 8.5 tons. Made of Swarovski crystal, has gold plated metalwork,
and hangs down for a length of 14 meters. Source Ministry of Information & Swarovski Architecture.
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