Tuesday Sketching- 大稻埕

The 'Tuesday Sketching' group met at Da Dao Cheng, Taipei, today. Most people sketched the buildings. I decided to walk down the street a bit to sketch the famous temple: Xia Hai Chenghuang Temple. It's a praying site visited often by young people, especially young single women. In the temple there is a match-making god, whose job is like Cupid. According to the temple's record, every year more than 3000 people found their Mr. or Mrs. Right after they visited the temple.

I omitted quite a lot of buildings and structures in this sketch. I found sketching street scenes in Taipei is quite overwhelming. There are always cars and scooters in the scene; the colours of the buildings are usually a bit dull due to humidity; and there are so many buildings and structures to make the scene complicated. While sharing my reflection with another urban sketcher, who is also an art teacher, he said if I can make a good urban sketch in Taiwan, I will be able to make any street in the world pretty.

I didn't get to participate in the 2018 AsiaWalk but quite a few foreign urban sketchers joined us today after they finished the event in Taichung. Some of them are from Australia! It was nice to chat with them and see their sketches. I also learnt that art supplies such as Handbook sketchbooks are pricey in Australia. Hmm, I have to remember to pack as many art supplies as possible before heading Downunder.