第1回フィールドスケッチ会

On Saturday, my friend and I organised a field sketching event at the Shinobazu pond in Ueno, Tokyo, where lots of ducks and black-headed gulls are wintering. When we planned this event, we were just hoping to have just a few participants. And there turned out as many as ten people, both amateurs and professional artists! It was a mild sunny day, very pleasant to sketch outside. I have to say that it was rather a successful day! You can find some photos and artworks we created on that day on our Field Sketchbook site.



不忍池で第1回フィールドスケッチ会を開いた。スケッチにはその人の鳥の見方が表れておもしろい。ポートレート画のように横顔を丁寧に観察している人、特徴的な形やポーズをしっかり捉えている人、ラフな線で動きを追っている人、風景の中に鳥を見ている人、影に注目する人。「スケッチするとなると、やっぱりよく観察することになりますね」という感想がうれしかった。野外で鳥をまともにスケッチするのは初めてという方も少なからずいたようだが、楽しんで、またお互いにいろいろな刺激にもなったようで、会の主催者としてはひと安心。当日の様子と成果はこちらにアップされています。



The gull was standing there against the light. I made this drawing by smudging the pencil with tissue paper and "drawing" with rubber, inspired by this Richard Thewlis's purple heron sketch. I really like this technique and should explore it further!



When I came here last time in January, almost all the gulls were the black-headed gulls. But this time, we had some black-tailed gulls, which had already come back for breeding. It was very interesting to see them fighting over a pole stuck in the pond for a place to stand on! Being larger, black-tailed were much stronger than black-headed.



Northern Pintail（オナガガモ）



まだつぼみのカンヒザクラとドバト。