Sasa's Sketchbook 3

This is where I have spent quite a lot of time during last couple of days... Finally got myself to draw 'the new sofa', quite different from the sofa in the previous apartment . The latter was definitely more comfortable but we gave it away because it didn't fit in the new flat (both style and size wise). This is a hard futon sofa bed thing but I like the streamlined look. Happy new year to all you wonderful people who visit my blog. I am off to Tenerife tomorrow and hope to return with bunch of sunny sketches to share.

I was drawing in Natural History Museum today. It was full of inspiring things to draw: corals and shells, fossils, skeletons,...  Dino This time I stayed in the main lobby drawing the dinosaurus and the giant moa there (I had never heard of moas before, looks like a huge emu or ostrich). The lobby has a wonderful golden yellow light but unfortunately the yellow of my drawings doesn't look that good in the scanned versions. I tried to adjust the color in Photoshop but didn't manage to make these look like the originals. Anyway, I found drawing 'bones' very satisfying for some reason. Giant Moa

Another painting from the same kiss series, a bit more passionate maybe?  These are drafts for a set of larger paintings. It is useful to make these small (A4) ones but I find that the bigger paintings end up looking completely different. Paper size makes a huge difference.

  I came back from a trip to sensual Barcelona last week. The city inspired me to start a series of paintings on the theme kiss . This is one of them.  XXX

My painting ended up in the poster for a conference ( Exploring the Potential of Restorative Justice for Sexual Violence ) arranged by University of Leuven in Belgium and European Forum for Restorative Justice. More information can be found from here . (The painting is called Together / 同根生 , 2011)

I started doodling today around this week's Illustration Friday topic Silence. I had no plan in mind, just drew whatever came to my mind: the lady who told me to be quiet at work this week when I talked to my colleague in our open office, sunset by lake, underwater scene, night sky, the Chinese word 安静... Very pleasant and stress free approach to the theme, may try it again :-) (I have been *silent* for a long time.  My excuses: hunting for a flat, moving, going for a holiday, decorating the new place.... But now I am happily settled and have a beautiful workspace so no more excuses. It is a promise.)

I am moving to a new flat next month and starting to feel quite sentimental about the old one. So I decided to start documenting it by drawing. Here is the first sketch: the sofa.  I hope I have time to do more before we move...