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DISTORTED PYRAMID VORTEX

Pen and Ink

Landschaftpark Duisburg-Nord, Germany. This abandoned steel mill is transformed into a industrial heritage centre and landscape park. It's a great location for photographers and urban sketchers.

Bear. Among the backwoodsmen of America there was a superstition that bears breed only once every seven years, and when they did this caused such a disturbance in the atmosphere that any cattle in the district which were about to calve would lose their young. From "A DICTIONARY OF OMENS AND SUPERSTITIONS" by Philippa Waring. https://www.instagram.com/p/CA5Y7HaBrTw/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

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#Swollen is the word for #inktober #day17. Because the city I live in is swollen from cars, buildings, humans, rats, pigeons, dirt and trash I considered the word to be proper for the problem of urbanization. Even if it's a natural transformation, it comes with a lot of issues. I see it as a concrete and steel monster eating the nature that stands in its way. © Maria!Bălan, 2018

From a wonderful photograph by Mr. Georges Courreges.

Petrol station in Sta Maria Val Müstair, Switzerland

Friday night I sit at a lantern near the exit of the subway Wilmersdorferstraße. Next to me a pile of electric scooters, their taillights shining red, ready for rent. To the left, people go to the subway or come out, then the escalator starts, screeching

Fountain pen with Japanese ink... watercolour

Sketching freehand in ink. Ink + alcohol markers.

Needing to get out of the house, I walked down the street to the antique shops that are right around the corner from my house and did some urban sketching.

Pigeon is angry it's snowing. Again.

Another busy crossing

Nibbelungenturm, Worms, Germany

Little pause in my travelbook, for little watercolors mixed with ink pen on parisian landscapes in plein air

Minnie having a drink. I've done this idea a few times before, this time I covered Minnie in graffiti in contrast to the plain walls.

The Synagogue of Tilburg, drawn with ballpoint

Drawn with one black posca

One of my favorite things about being a parent is listening to the stories my daughter makes up and really trying to encourage her imagination. She has named a bunch of the cacti which line our windowsills, while our cacti are very accustomed to their suburban lives they also like a bit of adventure, this is a group of them taking a family vacation to the desert.

I enjoyed a chocolate chip cookie topped with caramel and chocolate with a sprinkle of mnms

Sketching Riccardo Muti at a Chicago Symphony rehearsal. Then the music took me away!

From the crossing corner, on a busy city street.

A lantern on an old house in Sittard, The Netherlands. Pen and ink on bristol paper.

This is a very quiet station in Toronto’s Harbourfront. The 510 streetcar can take you to China town with scenic water views on the way, or you can take the 509 to Ontario place or Exhibition Grounds