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by Leonie Andrews

Tokyo sketches

I realised I hadn’t done any sketches recently, so today I managed several quick drawings. All were done on my ‘phablet’. I have also been drawing in my travel diary but I have no easy way of posting those images yet.
First up a view out of the window of the popular clothing shop Uniqlo, in Ginza, looking down to a construction site next door.

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Past the clothing display down to the construction site

The next was a man sitting across from us when we were having lunch. And as a random piece of trivia, Muhammed Ali ate at this same tiny restaurant in 1972.

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On the way back to our accommodation, something we see everyday, people asleep on the train.

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I will upload more of my holiday sketches when I get back home and can scan them properly.

by Leonie Andrews

Pots

On our last night in Kanazawa we had a fantastic dinner at the Uo-yaki Itaru izakaya (a type of small bar which also serves food). We had a range of yummy food including sashimi, octopus, duck and tempura. I even had to stop drawing so I could enjoy my dinner!
Here is a collection of pots that were sitting just in front of us.

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Pots on the counter

There was a stovepipe going across the back of the range, a bit of an odd arrangement.

by Leonie Andrews

In cafe far far away

Today’s drawing comes from a cafe rather a long way north and west of where I usually have a coffee break. I’m in Kanazawa, a city on the west coast of Japan. 

To find good coffee in Japan you need to leave the coffee chains of the main street behind and hunt around for shops called kissaten, or look down the smaller streets for a coffee sign.

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The barrista at work.

Here the barrista at Higashide coffee is working on the next orders, with jars of coffee behind him. This particular coffee shop, is located behind the Ohmicho markets. It’s well worth a visit if you are in the area.

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by Leonie Andrews

The weekly cafe drawings

In which the artist realises she spends way too much time drinking coffee as an excuse to draw.

Tuesday saw us at the Curtin Shops where we had a fine view of Matthew Harding‘s bird sculptures. This is my second attempt, at drawing this sculpture. The first magically disappeared when I pressed the ‘don’t save’ icon on my phablett by mistake!

Bird Sculpture, Matthew Harding 2001, Curtin Shops, ACT, 25 February 2014.

Bird Sculpture, Matthew Harding 2001, Curtin Shops, ACT, 25 February 2014.

In despair I returned to using the type of media that don’t just disappear vis, my pen and paper. I made this second drawing with an interesting array of traffic lights.

Reading with traffic lights, Curtin Shops ACT, 25 February 2014.

Reading with traffic lights, Curtin Shops ACT, 25 February 2014.

The next day we were in the centre of Canberra, known around here as Civic, where I was joining friends for lunch. Post lunch we found yet another cafe, Garema Cafe, not surprisingly adjoining Garema Place. This is one of four cafes crowded into a tight alley between buildings.

Down the alley towards the Taxation office building, 26 February 2014.

Down the alley towards the Taxation office building, 26 February 2014.

Thursday we were buying fruit at the Belconnen Markets when, yes, you’ve got it, we stopped for a cup of coffee. I didn’t quite finish this drawing, there’s only so much time that I can spend on a cup of coffee.

Inside the central plaza at Belconnen Markets, 27 February 2014

Inside the central plaza at Belconnen Markets, 27 February 2014