During this visit to Tainan there were quite a few storms passing through the area and these created some giant cloud formations moving through the hazy days. It was quite amazing and humbling to see the huge scale of the clouds and this led to the title of the piece, we are but a small part of this large world around us. This piece was drawn from life as I watched the clouds fly by in the beautiful An Ping area of Tainan, Taiwan.
This piece was drawn from life in the beautiful An Ping area of Tainan, Taiwan. It was drawn on a hot, humid, bright and hazy day. It was a lot of fun to see the variety of tones and colours of the sky reflecting in the different bodies of water.
This piece was drawn from life in the beautiful An Ping area of Tainan, Taiwan. I’ve visited this area and drawn the views of the Sicao Wetlands before and always got drawn towards the spectacular water filled fields. Whilst drawing and looking at large views the smaller details within will slowly appear, revealing interesting sections that are easily overlooked by the scale. This was the case with this blue structure that I find very unique and have actually wanted to draw for a while, but never previously had time. I think this blue structure is a pigeon loft raised on stilts and this time I decided to make it the focus of my first picture to finally scratch the itch!
This piece was drawn from life over a few days in the beautiful and chilled city of Yokohama, Japan. This port is very busy with all kinds of business and tourism and the boats and ships are constantly coming and going.
This piece was drawn from life over a few clearer yet still hazy days in the beautiful and chilled city of Yokohama, Japan. This is the view across part of the Yokohama harbour towards the giant metropolis of Tokyo in the distance and was only visible on a few days of our visit.
This piece was drawn from life over a few days in the beautiful and chilled city of Yokohama, Japan. This port city has a very interesting mix of old and new buildings which I always find interesting. I liked the angles and contrast in this scene with the older brown Kanagawa Prefectural Government Office sitting amongst the newer buildings and construction.
This piece was also drawn from life over a few very bright, hazy and sunny winter days in Koashuing City, southern Taiwan. It is focused on the iconic and controversial 85 Tower which is the tallest building in the city. At the time of drawing this it was 99 percent empty apart from a few businesses on the lower floors.
This was drawn from life over a few very bright, hazy and sunny winter days in Koahsiung City, southern Taiwan. I love the unique colours and shapes of Taiwanese architecture, with the contrasting and very abstract mixture of smaller older buildings and shiny new buildings. Even though it was winter here in Taiwan at the time, it was still hot and humid in this tropical part of the country!
This was drawn from life on a bright sunny day high in the beautiful mountains of Sanxia, Taiwan. It is actually the same view as the previous picture and was drawn a day later after the rainstorms had passed. It was a fun challenge to try to capture the peaks and ridges of the mountains and valley in the fluctuating daylight.
This was drawn from life on a rainy and misty day high in the beautiful mountains of Sanxia, Taiwan. I started drawing this as it was raining and the mountains and valley would appear and disappear into the rain clouds turning from greys to vibrant greens.
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