Yesterday afternoon, was the Muscat Sketchers first outside event of the winter (it's too hot outside in the summer). We
were a very small group out sketching, but we all had fun with some fab results. Unfortunately,
the event clashed with several other things like The Barney
Show, which meant several mum's couldn't come.
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| This is me struggling with my 1st sketch. |
This was a return visit to the gardens at Wadi Al Azaiba for the group. I don't appear to have blogged about the first event in March, but then this has been a strange year. The garden has been designed by Parisian landscape architect Jacqueline Osty and this is just the first phase of a much larger garden planned for this area. I saw her speak at the Muscat Art Festival in February, which inspired me to plan an event here.
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| A few of the remaining sketchers at the end of SketchMuscat 6. |
With only 5 weeks until my exhibition, I had spent the morning fighting myself to work on a drawing and really wasn't in the mood for sketching. Consequently, my first sketch was a disaster. However the garden worked its magic and just sketching weaved it's usual spell on me, and my second (last) sketch was much better.
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| My last sketch, badly photographed on site. |
All too soon the afternoon was over, we took our group photo and headed our seperate ways... mine was to my new home in a fishing village outside Muscat and a lovely run on the beach with Degas.
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| 30 seconds from my house. Photo by Gavin. |
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