Planning what tools and materials to take is part of the joy of being an Urban Sketcher! I sketched the tools I was taking with me on our recent trip away but only added the colours after getting home. 

I love using the yellow pouch on planes – light, scrunchable, easy to find in the seat pocket if you leave the cord hanging out and you can hang it up on those plane seat backs that have a hook! 

J bought that pouch in Japan in 2019 at a museum displaying the art of famed Japanese cartoonist Osamu Tezuka (the Father of Manga). I hardly used any of the tools I took in my blue stand-up case as family commitments filled my time. 

Climate change? Never experienced such long periods of turbulence.

A coffee/tea stop after meeting friends for lunch. Almost forgotten how to order coffee/tea the local way! Teh C is tea with evaporated milk. Killiney Kopitiam (Killiney coffee shop) is a coffee shop set up by a Hainanese immigrant from China in late 1919 on Killiney Road. There are now many many branches across the city. 

I ended up with this composite sketch due to being blocked by a huge tourist bus so had to move to complete the sketch. These gentrified old shop houses now are restaurants with their tables in a big night time outdoor eating area. Noisy, touristy and expensive but unexpectedly well patronised...by locals! 

Cities is something I’ve got out off practice with.

I didn’t have enough time to eat (or draw) all the things I wanted to. 

The trip home. Trying out a Daler Rowney passport size sketchbook I bought for $1.97!

#FaberCastellPittPen, watercolour, #MoleskineWatercolourAlbum, 5x8”. 

Last sketch – marker pen, #DalerRowney sketchbook.