Not long to go now. In fact, not long is an accurate description of this particular episode of an English Fool With His Sketchbook. There just isn’t a great amount to say about a pretty uneventful day.
We visited John in hospital this morning. In all honesty I think he’s getting a bit stir crazy. He was sitting in his chair though, and while we were there he was walking by himself, so at least that shows that he’s quite a bit better than he was when we brought him in on Wednesday. Hopefully they might well say that he can come home tomorrow.
We stayed until lunchtime, but John was getting a bit sleepy then, and so it made sense to take our leave. If you were with me last Sunday you might remember that I told you of the family tradition to have Sunday lunch in a restaurant in Crevillente called Las Palmeras – presumably so called because the outside of the place is festooned with palm trees. It was somewhat quieter today than it was last week, as far as I could tell we weren’t contending with a hen party as we were last week. Then it was back to the Casa Me Duck.
After a bit of a siesta, Jen packed the car to go back to the hospital, and I made the watercolour and ink sketch of the main street in San Isidro looking out of town that’s on this page. As for the Japanese characters, well, it’s like this. I also post in a Facebook group called Sketching Every Day. Each day there is a prompt to sketch, although one can always choose to go off prompt. Today’s was to wok in the style of artist Mateusz Urbanowicz. He’s a Polish born artist and illustrator living and working in Tokyo, and his style really lends itself to Urban sketching. So I did try to use as close to his palette as I could get. To pay respect to the man himself, though, I used Google, and if I’ve got it right, it says San Isidro, and my name. If I haven’t, well, I just hope that the translation isn’t too offensive.
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