37th World Wide SketchCrawl around Seoul City Hall and Jeong-dong

Drawings by Hwa Sook HWANG

sketch crawl 1

Pen and watercolor 

sketch crawl 2

Pen and watercolor 

sketch crawl 3

Pen and watercolor 

sketch crawl 4

Pen and watercolor 

sketch crawl 5

Pen and watercolor 

It's sunny but a little bit cold. So many peopel were participating lots of activities around here in center of the Seoul today. Very noizy but so lively. I love it! We're expecting gorgeous Autumn this year.

37th World Wide SketchCrawl around Seoul City Hall and Jeong-dong

Daehanmun, main entrance to Deoksugung, pen and watercolor, 21 x 29.6cm 

distant view of the new Seoul City Hall, pen and watercolor, 21 x 29.6cm 

another sketch of the old City Hall, pen and watercolor, 21 x 29.6cm

Seoul Plaza Hotel across Seoul City Hall, pen and watercolor, 21 x 29.6cm 

a cluster of buildings around Seoul City Hall, pen and watercolor, 21 x 29.6cm 

Jeongdong Methodist Church, pen and watercolor, 21 x 29.6cm

Appenzeller Noble Memorial Museum, pen and watercolor, 21 x 29.6cm 

Seoul Child-care information center building, felt pen, 21 x 29.6cm

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It was such a lovely day for Sketchcrawl. We Seoul sketchers met at Daehanmun in front of Deoksugung Palace, and sketched around Seoul City Hall and Jeong-dong. I have sketched around the same spot many times in Sketchcrawl. We had a pleasant sketch time all together after a long seperation.

#37th World Wide SketchCrawl at Jeong-dong, Seoul

in front of Deoksugung (Palace) across Seoul City Hall

sepia conte in holder, 30 x 40 cm

scenery around Seoul Plaza, pen & watercolor, 30 x 40 cm

the Anglican church of Korea under repairing, sepia conte in holder, pastels, 30 x 40 cm

view of Korea Press Center seen across Sejongdaero(street), 

pen, oil pastel, watercolor, 30 x 40 cm

Seoul Child-care information center building, Seosomun-dong

big tree at Baejae Jeong-dong Building,

sepia in holder, pastels, 30 x 40 cm

It was a real fine Autumn day. The streets and Seoul plaza were bustling with people and sounds from event(Seoul Art Festival) on Seoul Plaza and the changing ceremony of guards at Deoksugung Palace, etc. Seoul sketchers, Lee Yong Hwan, Jung Kyoung Won, Hwang Hwa Sook, Mun Sang Hee, and Yoo Byung Hwa, enjoyed the beautiful streets and sketching together. As always time was too short, things to capture were too many. Thank you all!

some sketches around Hongeun-dong village, Seoul

a cityscape viewed from the opposite hillside, pen and watercolor, 21 x 29.7cm 

a scenery from the opposite hillside, pen and watercolor, 21 x 29.7cm

an old fashioned mixed-use building on the roadside, pen and soft pastel, 21 x 29.7cm 

viewed from the hillside looking down the street, ballpoint pen and watercolor, 21 x 29.7cm

viewed from the roadside looking up the hill, pencil and watercolor, 21 x 29.7cm

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Last week one afternoon, I visited Hongeun-dong village located in Seodaemun-gu, not so far from my office. Many parts of the village already holds designated apartment reconstruction district by Seoul Metropolitan Government.

For urban sketchers Hongeun-dong is an interesting village, where modern buildings and demolition sceneries are mixed together naturally.

at Digital Media City, Sangam 3-ro, Mapo-gu, Seoul

MBC building under construction

heavy machinery in a row at rest on Chusuk holidays(Thanks Giving days) along the street

street scene on holidays

405 x 306 mm

part of Nuritkum Square

YTN building under construction

30 x 40 cm

On Chuseok holidays I went there not far from my house twice. As the name of the area, Digital Media City shows leading media companies such KBS, SBS, MBC, YTN, Nuritkum Square started to locate. Buildings are so big and attractive that it will be necessary to go there often to capture the changing shapes of buildings during construction. 

around Dongguk University, Pil-dong 3-ga, Jung-gu, Seoul

Rusty colored red buildings in a row across the Donguk university was very inpressive. Those buildings were just amazing by contrast of light and shadow with the depth of color. I feel like going there again for more drawings. 

Manhaegwan and Sungjeong Jeon in the university

at the back of the Sungjeon Jeon

Manhaegwan and Hyehwagwan in university

pastels, pencil, watercolor, 40 x 27 cm

The day was wonderful with autumn weather. I enjoyed sketching at Dongguk Universityj. The campus was beautiful with young students here and there. And the scenery surrounded by urban buildings was fantastic too.