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| La Sagrada Familia A5 sketchbook |
My penultimate Sunday in Barcelona, I met with a friend to go to the Picasso museum. Whilst waiting for her to arrive at the meeting point, I sketched the tourists around me in their various hats. Unfortunately, when we got to the museum the queue was about 3 days long, so we decided to go to the nearby Parc de la Ciutadella and then onto the Palau dela Música Catalana.
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| Hats, hats, hats A5 sketchbook. |
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| Parc de la Ciutadella © Sue Pownall 2012 |
At the Palau de la Música, we had to join a tour to view the beautiful building - next time I'd like to go to a concert there. First we watched a short film on its history in the new auditorium, which is when I sketched the lady on the left of my sketchbook. Then, walking around the old auditorium I tried to quickly capture some of the flowing sculptural elements.
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| Palau de la Musica A5 sketchbook. |
My last sketching outing in Barcelona was on 7th August when I met the animator
Dave Coogan in Rambla de Catalunya. We met at the
La girafa coqueta so I tried to capture its lines as my warmup, but my proportions are out. Then, we sat in the shade to sketch the various people.
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| On Rambla de Catalunya A5 sketchbook. |
From the Rambla, we went to join some of the Barcelona sketchers who were at
La Sagrada Familia drawing with
Nina Johansson who was over from Sweden. La Sagrada is dauntingly large. My view was chosen for me, as Dave and I sat on the only available empty bench, and I had this view through the trees (
top and below).
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| Sketching at La Sagrada Familia |
