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at the temple, Jogyesa located at Gyeonji-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul


Temple stay building with placards across the temple


administration building with shops which sells buddhism books, candles, rice, & etc


main building seen from the entrance


scenery with Bosingag at Jongno street




Lee Sang-jin, Kim Tae-ho, and Lee Gou-young (new comers) from the left


New comer, Kim Tae-won


drawing of Kim Ji-won


Hwang Hwa-sook


New comer, Lee Si-weon


Choi Seung-won


Yoo Byung-hwa, Lee Yong-hwan





Despite of heavy rain, nine sketchers including four new comers participated in!
Jogyesa locates at Jongno - one of busiest places in Seoul. It's a headquarter of Jogye Order in Korea Buddhist, so many believers and foreign tourists visit. After sketching there we moved to the Jongno street for capturing the Bosingag where the bells of New Year tolled.
Thank you all the participants, especially New Comers!
Hope you to keep sketching together forwards!

Drawings of Lee Kou Young :

Great sketches...

Thank you JJ Bell for your kind comment!

Sketches of Lee Si-won :






I sketched bh yoo.






Bosingag







Though I was bewildered by my first experience of sketching together I enjoyed a lot. See you soon!

Great to see your enthusiastic group, with 4 (!) newcomers in spite of the rain and people of various ages coming together to do this. It's a delight to see so many sketches resulting from your crawl, and they're wonderful to look at.

We've met at Jogyesa this time. Jogyesa is quite famous big temple located in near Kwanghwamoon. It's very crowded today because of weekend. Mostly people who want to pray and tourist. It's very nice place to draw even when it rains. There are many benches to sit and eaves to avoid from rain. The decoration of the ceiling in the yard was very touching today. Those colorful fabric are fantastic. It was very happy day with our members including new members.


Building seen from the right side of Daewoogjeon


Camps and colorful tall poles in the front yard


A bell hanging from the edge of the eaves


Entrance of Daewoongjeon


Buddhist


About 500 year-old locust tree in the yeard

Sketches by Choi Seung-won :









watersoluble crayons, watercolor pencils, A 4











Entrance gate was a good place to sketch and to exhibit works during raining.

<A watercolor of a rainy day>

The long rain began. Rain was brought down awfully from the morning.
I am worried about whether there is a number to picture sketching so that there had been a lot of rain.
Rain decreased as soon as time passed. If it rains, a number to picture the feeling is good as there is it.
I make it so that a feeling for lyrical feeling to carry is good.

< If it clicks a picture, You can see the sangjin Lee's blog. >
http://blog.naver.com/masuking7

your results are wonderful, a real pleasure to discover and Bravo to all of you, nice to see you

One Pillar Gate ( main gate of Jogyesa Temple), pen and watercolor


Daewoongjeon building (Main Buddha Hall), pen and watercolor


Buddha Statue in Daewoongjeon, pencil and watercolor


Templestay Building across the street viewed from One Pillar Gate, pen and watercolor


The 8 angle and 10 story Stone Statue, pen and watercolor


Contemporary buildings around Jogyesa Temple, pen and watercolor


Temple office and old fashioned neighboring buildings, pen and black ink


Bosingak Belfry at the corner of the Jongno crossing near Jogyesa Temple, pen and pastel
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( 21 x 29.6cm sketchbook )
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It was rainy and inclement weather, I joined in 40th World Wide SketchCrawl with Seoul sketchers around Jogyesa Temple located in downtown Seoul. Jogyesa Temple is an oasis of spiritual peace in the heart of the bustling metropolis. There are some historic cultural properties including traditional Korean architectures. Along the street around Jogyesa are many Buddhist specialty shops and some colorful facilities related to Buddhism. The traditional space in urban center is very interesting for our urban skechers. I sketched various sceneries here and there, looking around the peaceful temple.

I'm really glad the rain didn't stop you from going sketching- these are wonderful!!
Great variation in the group's styles.

Really awesome sketches from the group. Well done.

Thank you Debora, Sophie Valenti, Dave C, and Eyes and all the visitors!
Seoul, Korea team has been participated since 21st. Many sketchers had joined. Most of them would have enjoyed the sketching marathon in fine or bad weather.
I remember the first and the coldest day of 21th in January among all those sketchcrawl days.
I just hope that many sketchers or sketchers-to-be participate in next crawls.
Thank you all!!!

Hi BH and Seoul group!
Nice lines and atmospheric color!
(And of course I am partial to the great turtle monuments!)
We finally returned home from UK where I focused on drawing/painting for 3 weeks (no computer work!). So now, a late sketchcrawl posting under Tallahassee [RESULTS].
On July 13th, Sara and I met the talented London group of sketchcrawlers this year; you can see on London [RESULTS] page.