Ne-Yo invitation concert

world-wide Pop star , Ne-Yo (Shaffer Chimere Smith)

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Last sunday morning, I chanced to look out of the window in tourist bus. Then my eyes met the banner on Ne-Yo invitation concert to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the foundation of Hyundai Department. The banner was vertically hanging from the wall of the Department building. I could'nt but sketch the hero's figure rapidly as I saw on the banner before departure.

Familiar Buildings in downtown Seoul

Seoul Square building & Namdaemun Police Station

The Bank of Korea

Post Tower at Myungdong

The Salvation Army Korea Territory

Kyunghyang Newspaper Publishing Company

Appenzeller/ Noble Memorial Museum

The porch of Jungmyungjeon

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I open some works on the subject of building in Seoul, which are unpublished and sketched with Seoul sketchers recently.

mortar and pestle at Seoul Folk Flea Market

stone mortar and wooden pestle
stone mortar and a stone for grinding cereals

paintings of Stephen Kopp

Stephen Kopp who sketched with us last month three times sent photos of his works which he had painted at his studio in Sydney. The sceneries are of our country where he had seen during his stay in Korea. So they look familiarto us. I post three of them. Hope you to enjoy them!

some sketches at Kamgnam-Ku

Urban Hive building at the corner of the Kyobo crossing

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a building under construction at Nonhyon-dong

Kyobo Tower building, Kangnam

skyline of the Kyobo Tower building

streetscape alongside Dosandaero

buildings at Apgujeong-dong

Mercedes Benz exhibition building

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Yesterday we met in Kangnam sketchcrawl after a long time. Unfortunately it was so cold and windy day for sketchers to work comfortably in the face of the wind. But after lunch, We had a pleasure sketch time at the STARBUCKS coffee shop sitting on the place with a fine view.

Kangnam STARBUCKS sketch

Gangnam sketch

At Starbucks coffee shop near Dosan crossroads

Building called "Urban Hive" near Kyobo Tower crossroads

Apgujeong sketch

at Kangnam-ku, Seoul

Lee Sung-ae, at coffee shop

Lee Sung-ae, at Kangnam-ku

Lee Sung-ae, at Kangnam-ku

Lee Sung-ae, at Kangnam-ku

Yoo Byung-hwa, signs on the street of Dosan crossing


Yoo Byung-hwa, buildings near the Dosan crossing

Yoo Byung-hwa, profile of the building near Kyobo crossing

Yoo Byung-hwa, sketchers at the entrance of Kyobo Tower, Kangnam-ku

Today was the anniversary of the Independence Movement of March lst, 1919. It snowed a little in the morning. Six sketchers came to Kyobo Tower building. We started sketching inside the building. But the guards forbade our sketching in and out of the building within its boundary. They kept saying it was a rule that nobody could take picture or distribute brochures in the very front of the building. We felt shame so much about the lack of understanding of the staffs working in such a famous building toward artists or sketchers. They treated us as 'homeless' on street telling the 'image(dignity)' of the building got tarnished. Despite of such displeasing happening we moved cross the road and kept sketching. After having lunch, we went to Dosan crossing by taxi and had good time at the nice coffee shop talking and sketching till 4 pm. Thanks all, especially a new comer Lee Sung-ae!

The Seoul Folk Flea Market

main entrance of the Seoul Folk Flea Market

the rear of the Seoul Folk Flea Market

a clothes store

a hat shop

A-frame for carrying things
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It was a fine day to sketch for Seoul sketchers. There are variegated necessaries of life, rare objects and many others. Those are certainly interesting subjects.

I drew hard with determination to sketch such a fun market frequently.