Issue 30
03. Member Matters
Sketch Book
VIETNAM Trying not to wake my sleeping family, I sneak to the balcony overlooking a small Vietnamese town. The view of the South China Sea is fantastic however, it is not what I feel a need to sketch. Being a building designer attracts me to the waking-up streets of the old part of this coastal Vietnamese town, where a mix of French-influenced and typical narrow concrete houses fill the valley. In this early hour I am not the only one awake - the air is already filled with the constant noise of motorcycles, bangs from construction across the road and the aroma of sweet Vietnamese coffee from cafes. Tatiana Volodomanova
The technology and hustle of the 21st Century offers very little free time to do something I love - sketching the surrounding environment. The luxury of creating sketches is limited to time spent away from home, away from the perpetually busy family-work life here in Melbourne. The urge to depict usually occurs when I find myself in a very different, unfamiliar environment that has to be absorbed through observation, sketching and memorising and where relying on photos only is not good enough.
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