I made sketch of Quincy center this spring. I made that art into the magnets and sale at the book store in front of Quincy center. “The next chapter books and more”
After I came back from 3months of Japan trip, I got an email about all magnets sold out. So I made more magnets and add Wollaston beach design.
Of course I am an urban sketchers. I sketch at site (mostly)
also requested stickers and postcards.
I want to make more landscape magnets series for sale at local store limited edition.
so far I have done Harvard university, and Massachusetts version.
After 3months of life in Japan. Flew back via San Francisco to Boston gave us a huge jet lag week. Usually 5days, but this time, I took around 10years to recover the jet lag.
In summer, there are so many fun stuffs to do in Boston. Outdoor exercise , outdoor painting, urban sketching outside, movies cruises, bicycling the coast etc..
I forced myself to keep awake in daytime with filling the fun things like above mentioned.
Despite all my efforts to keep me awake in daytime, I kept waking up 2am , 4am. So I did not set the alarm for the morning since I knew I will wake up and enjoy tired morning. Suddenly the jet lag disappeared at the important appointment day! Woke up 9:30am. Why today?
It was a Super bad timing to recover from my jet lag days. I learned , even I can’t keep sleeping for some reason, I should set the alarm.
That is a huge art installation event at multiple location I down town Boston.
It’s free and open to public. ( That’s important)
The BOSTON WINTERACTIVE started this year again. January to March 30th.
I can wait to see these installations till March for the comfortable weather.
Because It’s cold now. How cold it is?
Boston common pond is freezing completely.
Actually many people enjoy walking on the frozen pond though.
In this cold weather, ( or always )I become very lazy and not go outside at all.
I should walk !
I need a motivation to walk! So this WINTERACTIVE event give me the good excuse to walk in the cold weather.
First art I found was pink man.
It is the entrance street from park street station to downtown crossing.
The big butt is very standout .
At the corner of downtown, there is volunteers guide for Boston.
I got an art map.
But there is no address for the art location.
I am not good of reading map. When I was rotating the map to find where I was,
The guide man taught me all locations of pink man ( Actually their name are Mr.Pink )from his memory.
Impressive memory!
Mr.Pink were cute. I could not tell Mr or Ms. Very easy to find from the distance.
Most impressive one for me was Living Lantern.
That Lantern moves very organically and make small squeaking noise like a small bird.
Surprisingly that organic movement and sound made by the wind of the street.
Secondly I liked the balloons in front of the south station.
I enjoyed the color changing ball sculptures with south station landscape. Also the balloons inside has moving objects which makes interesting shadow animations on the balloon’s surface.
The biggest balloon has small windows where people can see inside snowy villages.
I am doing urban sketching anywhere, in the train, at the table in the restaurant or cafe.
Mostly people around me, landscape sometimes. When I find the people with cute outfits, cute couples or friends having fun time together, I want to sketch them to keep the happy moments on my sketch books.
Usually sneak peek and draw in less than 3min.
Sometimes I want to sketch Peoples who are moving around, passing by me with bicycles or moving mobile.
I need to memorize super quickly strongly the moving people like take snap shot with my eyes.
Now I have collection of the sketch who were sitting in front of me or passing by .
Might be you project is showing those quick sketches with little it information (
Sketch date, and places)on to the Instagram and this website.
So…
Someone may notice, “Is this sketch …me?”
I don’t take any photos. So there’s no evidence that my sketch is you. But this portrait might be you!
