Sketchbook_November 24, 2009_9, originally uploaded by Brin d’Acier.
Pasila train station in Helsinki.
In the past I’ve mainly drawn architectural details that captivated me by their beauty. Lately I’ve started seen subjects in the banality of industrial details.
Sketchbook_Helsinki_2009_029, originally uploaded by Brin d’Acier.
Our cat Nestor Burma (named after a detective created by Léo Malet. Il met le mystère K.O. )does not like to be photographed or sketched. Either he fakes a sudden urge to go explore the other room or just looks annoyed.
In this drawing he lacks detail, as he left almost immediately.
Here he is, looking annoyed and moving around.
You have to catch him in a deep sleep to finish a sketch.
Sketchbook_elokuu 15, 2010_11-2, originally uploaded by Brin d’Acier.
Drawn from the boat between Helsinki and Tallinn.
Luckily there’s still time for a long weekend away.
Sketchbook_August 09, 2010_3, originally uploaded by Brin d’Acier.
Tallinn old town, seen from Toompea ramparts.
Tallinn is just two hours away from Helsinki, but it’s another world. An older and in many ways more cultured city, full of history. No city in Finland has managed to keep its medieval center intact, and Helsinki is a new town, mostly built in the 19th -20th century.
Sketchbook_August 06, 2010_10, originally uploaded by Brin d’Acier.
Alexander Nevsky cathedral (1894-1900).
Done in watercolour from a sidewalk café in Tallinn.
I have many long phone conferences, so I doodle. Normally I sketch what I see from my office window.
Roadworks under my office window in Espoo, Finland.
There are benefits to really long and pointless teleconferences.
Starting a new Moleskine in the plane.
Sketchbooks_summer_2010_quebec_0019, originally uploaded by Brin d’Acier.
Sketchbooks_summer_2010_quebec_0020, originally uploaded by Brin d’Acier.
A small island in the St-Lawrence river that you can only reach during high tide. Around forty inhabitants and passing whales. This is the south coast, green and muddy. The north coast is colder and rocky.
I think I love mountains so much because I grew up by the sea, in a very flat country.
Another great jazz festival in Montréal, with plenty of excellent free concerts. I managed to sketch some of the performers.
Downtown Montréal.
Black Joe Lewis
Trombone Shorty
Allen Toussaint
Another great hiking holiday.
Mountains, a clear lake and Verona just a bus ride away.
Goethe got into trouble sketching this castle. He was suspected of being a spy studying the fortifications. Nowadays sketching it only draws mild curiosity…
The trail on top of the ridge of Monte Baldo, as seen from the top Cima Delle Pozzette (2132m). Done during a pause while hiking.
Clouds moving in at sunset.
Söll, Austria.
Watercolour and gouache in a small Moleskine.
Mille Croquis 