sketchcrawl in Nouakchott

Port de Pêche Artisanale 

Around 40 people showed up, lots of children.
Spent most of the time talking not much sketching.
We'll be doing it again.
Maybe we've new sketchers in town.

Sketching cars with ...Lapin

The thing about sketching with Lapin is that you sketch a lot more than you normally do. He hand is so curious about what surrounds him that you start looking with fresh eyes your surroundings and wanting to do and redo more drawings.
The other thing is his love for cars specially oldies and suddenly I, that don't care much about cars, have started sketching cars...and having fun even if in the final drawings my cars look like whales and sharks.
These sketches were done at the Port de Pêche Artisanale in Nouakchott. We were there to sketch the boats. We never reached the sea as we stayed in the parking until sunset.

lapin sketching a 4L 

Jakarta KTM and Peugeot 404

Peugeot 404, fish and ice

bits and odds of a summer in Nouakchott

Chinese dinner- Hot Pot

meeting at Tfeila

Sangu Delle

Aissata Lam

Invisible Borders at Zeinart

Meeting new people, seeing Mauritanian youth doing things , meeting artists from other African countries, finding China in Africa, Japanese boat on the beach and the presence of law enforcement everywhere.

Port de pêche artisanale

It had been a long time since I had been in the fish market sketching. The visit of Enrique Flores and Antonia Santolaya to Mauritania and Senegal was the perfect occasion as I had the pleasure of taking them both there. You can check their drawings here. I had no time for portraits, as their visit to the capital was very short and they spent most of their time visiting the desert and the coastal areas.