Rainy season...saturday  Sketchers in Jongno Sam chung dong

                              

                             

                            

                                                                                                                                     

                                                                                                                                    I went to the Sam  chung dong with my friends to prepare for the     exhibition. Because of the forecast of rain,the streets were unexpectedly uncrowded.  Sometimes group tourists were showed up.  And the umbrella of there's made the color of sketch rich . In the morning ,

didn't rain, we sketched  under the outdoor umbrella of the unknown church, but after lunch, pouring cats and dogs, we went to second

 floor of the cafe to take shelter from the rain. The cafe was so cool and not crowded. The sound of rain falling outside, the music inside th cafe and the communion of the friends sharing the same interst, it was mixed up ,looked like sound of orchestra. Maybe it was the benefits of rainy season.We have had an intering and exhausting but fruitful day.

전시작품을 위해 친구들과 삼청동 투어에 나섰다. 비예보 때문인지 예상외로 거리는 

한산했고 형형색색의 우산을 쓴 단체관광객들이 스케치의 색감을 더 해 주었다

오전에는 비가 내리지 않아 어느교회의 파라솔아래서 삼청동 가게를 그리고 느긋한 점심식사후 2층 카페에서 쏟아지는 비를 감상(?)하였다.  오늘따라 귀에 착착 감기는 음악,창을 두드리는 시원헌 소나기, 같은곳을 지향하는 친구들과의 교감이 때로는 강한 금관악기처럼 때로는 섬세한  현악기의 리듬으로...오케스트라연주를 듣는듯한 느낌 ..

.명절특수, 휴가특수..오늘은 장마특수를 톡톡히 누린 날이다.

sketches at Bukchon village, Jongno-gu, Seoul

a scenery seen from the hillside of Samcheong-dong(삼청동), 36 x 51cm

a streetscape of  Samcheong-dong Street of Culture, 26 x 37cm

the Dongsipjagak(동십자각) intersection viewed from the 3rd floor 

in Beomnyeonsa Temple(법련사), 36 x 51cm

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( pen, pencil and watercolor )

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It rained off and on yesterday. We Seoul urban sketchers met on Sagan-dong(사간동) near Gyeongbokgung Palace and sketched around Bukchon Hanok Village(북촌 한옥마을), where lots of traditional houses and new buildings coexist side by side harmoniously and has become a major tourist attraction. Despite the bad weather, the rainy sceneries of the beautiful village seemed like an atmosphere of "Watercolors in Rain". I couldn't but sketch inside building or take shelter from the rain under the eaves while painting watercolors. It was a very exciting sketch time practicing finish the sketches within a short period of time on rainy days.

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경복궁과 주변의 북촌마을은 잘 정돈된 전통한옥과 고궁, 문화시설들과 카페거리...

종로 스케치에서 빼놓을 수 없는 다양하고 무궁무진한 소재를 지닌 명소입니다. 

온종일 장마비로 인한 애로가 많았지만, "비오는 날의 수채화"를 그리면서 색다른 분위기를 느끼고 또한 악천우에 대처하며 그리는 실전 경험도 큰 소득이라 생각합니다.