Exhibiting on a train!

The train, with the Trans-Siberian Art Centre in carriage 9, sets off in 4 days going from Moscow to Beijing.  This 6 day train journey is to support and promote new emerging art internationally. As you can see from the poster above (click to see larger view), I am one of 150 artists from over 20 countries exhibiting one of my drawings postcard sized.

Khalifa's House Gate, Omdurman. Pen & ink 400x200mm  ©Sue Pownall 2010

The Khalifa's House Gate, is the one being displayed. Wish I could go and see it.

For further information on the event click here.

Heathrow T5

Passenger ramp for my flight from gate.

Motivated by a text from Sandra, which I received whilst I was milling around T5 waiting for my flight to Doha, I did a few sketches.

Sleeping, texting & calling. Modern airport life!

These were done in my A6 sketchbook.

SketchCrawl #26

 Journey down south: (top left)waiting for the coach to leave Turin; (bottom left) early Milan breakfast; (top right) gate signs; and (bottom right) waiting to board. Below is the sunrise witnessed after doing the 3rd sketch.

 

I'm not very happy with my lack of results this crawl. My problem was travelling most of the morning, then arriving in Orsomarso to cold & grey (there were patches of sun, whilst I was doing other things). It was to cold for me to sketch outside and the local churches would not have been any better. Still my first sketch I think is the earliest I have ever drawn. Hopefully, in May I will have someone else to sketch with, which I found to be a great motivator on #25,  and it should be warmer too.

Orsomarso clock tower from lounge window.