Galicia

Short Trip to northern Spain and Portugal in June, these are a couple from Galicia.
This mother and her toddler were shockingly color coordinated- on a nice evening on Praza da Constitucío in Vigo.

A hórreo gallego, a typical granary found in almost every backyard in rural Galicia, this one was rather atypically by the hotel pool.

Impressive Faro de Vilán on Costa da Morte, which apparently is already in A Coruña.

Slowly making my way to Santiago, where it´s great fun to watch pilgrims arrive at the cathedral and to wander around the old town.

toy cars

Actually, these are vehicles on the airport of Valencia. For the first time i´ve noticed how strange some of them look- asymmetric, bulky and square-edged, with some hidden, mysterious purpose i could not decipher.

kings of convenience

 

summer concert at poble espanyol, barcelona, july 2010. Admiring erlend oye´s sense of dress- who else can pull of a pink shirt with baby blue trousers? A lovely concert, and this is still my favourite video.


Catalan pyrenees

The Aigüestortes y Estany St. Maurici National Park is in the catalonian part of the pyrenees (about 60 km west of Andorra).

I did these drawings in july, on a three day hiking trip from Boí to Espot. We spent the whole day walking,  with me getting blisters on my feet in the process and then resting those very tired feet on the rocky ground, sleeping under the open sky. A great trip, thanks mostly to my more adventurous, persistent and knowledgeable comrade from the alpes, Erica.
I decided i´d rather take food and a sleeping bag than art supplies-so it was just a black micron and a muji brush pen, and the smallest, thinnest sketchbook  i had.
I´m glad i had to go all minimalistic on these ones.

the day after the sketchcrawl

Some sketchers met up again the day after the official sketchcrawl, walking around Montjuic and basically freezing to death. we took refuge in a café in poble sec and lapin and me started sketching over a mug of Chai. This pensive guy is daniel and you can see lapin´s drawings of that day here.

césar, roberta y and lapinette chatting and looking at sketchbooks. below, a pretty portuguese girl (i´m sorry, i forgot your name) and freekhand looking decidedly malicious.