March is Fire Prevention Month in the Philippines. So, we thought visiting the Paco fire station would fit the bill for this sketch walk. It's one of the 4 original modern fire stations in the early 1900s, and it's still standing. Unfortunately, it's still in need of rehabilitation. The rusted front roof gutter dangles, and some windows have broken glass.
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| The Paco fire station today |
The station has not changed much, except the widening of the left and right entrances for the fire trucks - they have gotten bigger after decades. The fake brick texturing have been placed in the decade I have last visited the inside of this station.
While we can see the service personnel of the station are busy with their daily duties, we were observing the surroundings via sketching. There were 18 of us for this session, 5 of which were first time sketchers with us namely, Cheenee Buenaventura, Jose, Ruben, Mikaela and Romina.
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| Tree shades are great places for sitting down for the sketch session |
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| Daughter and mother sketch act - Mika and Romina |
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| Manue, Cheddie, and Cheenee |
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| Nadja and Manuel |
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| Meg, Nice, Cheddie, Cheenee |
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| Comicbook illustrator extraordinaire, Randy |
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| The morning's sketch results |
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| Happy with the morning's sketch walk |
We then had a lunch break after ending the morning session with pictures of our works and our usual group shot. The afternoon session was then focused on the Paco Park, which is opposite of the fire station across the street.
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| The Paco mortuary chapel, usually for weddings nowadays |
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| Randy finishing a painting of the chapel |
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| Manuel drawing with stick and paint |
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| The afternoon's sketch results |
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| Ruben, moi, Manuel, Lerron, Burt, Randy and Nadja |
We ended at 4 pm with eating at a fastfood joint.
Next month's sketch walk will be drawing the skyline of our city - Details to follow soon.
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