Fish Market, Hong Kong

Sketching virtually is allowing me to visit places that are not really on my bucket list, but have some interesting areas. Hong Kong is one of those places. A lot of people are attracted to the busy downtown area with all the skyscrapers, but being from NY that isn't something that really attracts me because the ones in NYC can't be beat. So I googled sites to see in Hong Kong and found Tai O Fishing Village. The photos showed some interesting houses built on stilts and pilings along the river, but I couldn't find a way to access that on googlemaps.com. Instead I found a fish market in the area. I do believe that those buckets all contain water with live fish. It was a fun scene with a bit of everything. lol #VirtualSketch

Virtual Visit to Hong Kong

#VirtualSketch selected Hong Kong as the city we would be sketching in today. I couldn't find the link that was provided, so I just roamed around Googlemaps on my own. I found Tai O Fishing Village that had an interesting fish market. Apparently the buckets contain live fish that are for sale.

Just in case you'd like to see a bit of my home, the Patchogue Sketch Club had furniture as our theme for this week. I sketched my bedroom dresser. This also came in handy for the WetCanvas Scavenger Hunt that is being hosted by my friend, Ai.

High Line Sketches

I got to the High Line area earlier than our meeting time but Mark, our organizer was already down at street level sketching. It had stopped drizzling but was blustery and a bit cold. I was wearing several layers but decided I needed a hat too. Luckily there was a street vendor with a cart selling hats and scarves...perfect. I sat down and did a small sketch of the view down the street. The small sketches are probably about 2 x 2 1/2 inches long.

A few other sketchers arrived including a visitor from Maine and we headed up to the High Line, a raised greenway build on a former rail spur to the NY Central Railroad.  We were in luck because there were lots of fall colors on the trees and bushes...but it was very windy! I thought ahead and brought clips to hold my sketchbook pages down so they didn't keep blowing. This sketch was done in just watercolors.

We had another urban sketching visitor, Rob Sketcherman and his wife who were here from Hong Kong. Rob is a well-known digital artist who works on an iPad Pro using Procreate. He was in NYC because he had done a presentation at the Apple Conference that took place this past week. He is a digital sketching master and has taught at several of the Urban Sketching Symposiums. Here he is at work. 

Before we moved off to lunch I had enough time to do another quick small sketch.

More about our day tomorrow.