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Sketching along the pista #4

Manga or Pessoa? This is the difficult choice at Évora’s Fonte de Letras, where artists’ books sit alongside quality fiction and non-fiction, coffee ready at hand. The stock appears seemingly random in its display but on closer inspection is carefully ordered, with furniture and book displays performing a carefully choreographed dance. The ceiling, with its electrical tape artwork by local designer and illustrator Bernardo Bagulho, perfectly mirrors the ordered chaos below.

This is a sketcher’s paradise. I tried to highlight the particular charm of Fonte de Letras using some discreet collage (the store’s advertising leaflet featuring Pessoa and a clipping from a Portuguese-language Manga catalogue) balanced by a limited colour palette. Pessoa reaches into his fluid brain for inspiration, his hand resting on the manuscript, while Tokyo Ghoul dangles his smartphone and touches his temple in slightly perplexed distraction.

With such a complex scene, I started with a thumbnail in ‘Mr Blumke’ (my pocket notebook) to work out how much I could realistically include, and then once I had some main lines down, attacked the sketchbook with the two selected collage pieces using PVA glue (cola branca). The beauty of urban collage is the vitality of decision-making and its resulting design, where sketched lines dance with the printed fragments at almost improvised speed.

77º Encontro ÉSk I Malagueira, Évora

Desenhos de Cristina Rebocho

77º Encontro ÉSk I Malagueira, Évora, João Matos

E aqui estão os meus bonecos da Malagueira.

77º Encontro ÉSk I Malagueira, Évora

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Vista do Centro de Arte e Cultura FEA

Teresa Engana

77º Encontro ÉSk | Malagueira, Évora

Malagueira 2015, Lago - Teresa Engana

Malagueira 2019 Jardim dos Socalcos - Teresa Engana

                                            

Jardim da Malagueira 2019

77º Encontro ÉSk | Malagueira, Évora

Malagueira | Jardim dos socalcos | Paulo Fanha

77º Encontro ÉSk | Malagueira, Évora

77º Encontro ÉSk | Malagueira, Évora

Outono na Malagueira

77º Encontro ÉSk | Malagueira, Évora

E olha, o encontro na Malagueira até ficou compostinho, pensava que iam aparecer apenas um ou dois 'gatos pingados' como se diz aqui por estas bandas...estava um pouco frio e a chuva ameaçava a aparecer. Mas, pelo contrário, apareceu gente, gente que já não víamos há muito tempo, gente nova e até um cão...este ultimo não desenhou mas deu o ar da sua graça.
E aqui ficam as fotos desta manhã a desenhar o bairro desenhado pelo Siza :)

Fotografia: Teresa Engana.

77º Encontro ÉSk | Malagueira, Évora

Sketching along the pista #3

Having a spare day in Évora I was pleased to make contact with members of the local USk group, Évora Sketchers. The email reply I received was very encouraging: ‘Good news: I have some yes ... The first to be available will be José ... Later, 2 or 3 more will appear’. And they did! Thanks to Luís, José, Cristina, Joanna, and João for sharing their time and local knowledge, and for making this a memorable day. Sketching with other sketchers always gives the occasion a spontaneous edge and supercharges my nervous energy!

 With this sketch of the main square in Évora, Praça do Giraldo, I started with very loose almost abstract blotches of watercolour and only applied ink after the paint had dried, something I have been encouraged to do since sketching in Porto earlier this year with my colleague from Seattle, Eleanor Doughty (a big shout out to @herbcoil).

This method—the reverse of my usual technique—certainly encourages risk taking and while the results are unpredictable the process is always an exciting and creative journey.

Sketching along the pista #2

Cycling from Arraiolos to Évora along the Ecopista is a great way to start an adventure: a smooth, well-graded cycle path along the former railway track. The railway opened in 1907 (opened further north to Mora in 1908) and closed in 1990. Along the way are several old railway buildings and I presume my subject was a small station or railway cottage. Whatever, it was great spot for a picnic lunch with figs from the old tree out the back sweeter than any from the supermercado.

I used wax crayons as a ‘resist’, that is, the waxy crayon resists the water-based paint causing the latter to do deliciously unpredictable things. I used orange crayon along the top of the front wall and then white to give a general effect of decrepitude. Pleasingly (and coincidentally I should add) it gave the impression of speed, as though I was racing past on the bike. The brown pencil was a quick under-drawing while I was balancing on a rock eating figs, juggling my implements, and savouring a snatched moment of bliss.

Parabéns para mim!

E chego ao centésimo post neste blog!
Vamos comemorar com música!!!
Palmers, banda das Caldas da Rainha a tocar no bar da S.O.I.R. Joaquim António Aguiar. Provando assim ser possível desenhar concertos energéticos em salas apertadas no meio do público. Difícil mas possível!
p.s. a simpática banda gostou e autografou o boneco.

77º Encontro ÉSk | Malagueira, Évora

77º Encontro ÉSk | Malagueira, Évora
Sábado, 30 de Novembro de 2019

10:00 - Ponto de Encontro: Anfiteatro/ lago;
12:30 – Partilha de desenhos e foto de grupo;
13:00 - Final do Encontro.

74º Encontro ESk | Jardim Público, Évora

Desenho de Elsa Miranda

Escultura de José Villa, Jardim da Malagueira, Évora

A escultura data de 2000. Segundo este site.

A escultura intitula-se de Espiga e o escultor, José Ramon Villa Sobéron, de nome completo, nascido em Cuba em 1950, é muito versátil, com obra de temas figurativos como abstractos, desde o bronze à pedra, do grande ao pequeno…

Ver mais, aqui.

The Castle of the Eye

Desenho de Teresa Engana

 The Castle of the Eye, escultura de Minoru Niizuma, Évora