37th World Wide SketchCrawl around Seoul City Hall and Jeong-dong

Daehanmun, main entrance to Deoksugung, pen and watercolor

 distant view of the new Seoul City Hall, pen and watercolor

another sketch of the old City Hall, pen and watercolor

Seoul Plaza Hotel across Seoul City Hall, pen and watercolor

a cluster of buildings around Seoul City Hall, pen and watercolor

Jeongdong Methodist  Church, pen and watercolor

Appenzeller Noble Memorial Museum, pen and watercolor

Seoul Child-care information center building, felt pen

( 21 x 29.6cm sketchbook )

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It was such a lovely day for Sketchcrawl. We Seoul sketchers met at Daehanmun in front of Deoksugung Palace, and sketched around Seoul City Hall and Jeong-dong. I have sketched around the same spot many times in Sketchcrawl. We had a pleasant sketch time all together after a long seperation.

several sketches around Hongeun-dong village, Seoul

a scenery from the opposite hillside, pen and watercolor, 21 x 29.7cm

a cityscape viewed from the opposite hillside, pen and watercolor, 21 x 29.7cm  

an old fashioned mixed-use building on the roadside, pen and soft pastel, 21 x 29.7cm 

viewed from the hillside looking down the street, ballpoint pen and watercolor, 21 x 29.7cm  

viewed from the roadside looking up the hill, pencil and watercolor, 21 x 29.7cm

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Last week one afternoon, I visited Hongeun-dong village located in Seodaemun-gu, not so far from my office. Many parts of the village already holds designated apartment reconstruction district by Seoul Metropolitan Government.

For urban sketchers Hongeun-dong is an interesting village, where modern buildings and demolition sceneries are mixed together naturally.