World Sketching Tour – Luís Simões, Travel Sketcher
China was a big experience as a traveler in many ways, that I only understood when I got in Japan. Time and relaxation made me touch the moments I’ve had passed in that contrasted country (china). Japan was perfect to grab my soul and comfort again. Maybe too much. I left Shanghai sick of my…
The sun was hitting the buildings and changing their color. I walked around the center choosing what I wanted to sketch. As always, I start with a new leaf and write what I like the most. I create my own map of the city with my experiences, because, alone nobody waits for my notes. Musicians…
I will never forget my experience in Auschwitz and Birkenau. I made my silent in memory of the massacre, while i was sketching and living those times. But Poland is so much more then memories and war, that I will visit this country after my big trip with a lot of more time.
I came from France with the idea, that in Italy, I would also have difficulties communicating in English. I was surprised. It’s true that not everyone speaks it and most of them always give the Italian way to pronounce it: “u go ine fronte, den u turne to de rite…” it’s funny. Besides, those who…
My entry into Russia began in St. Petersburg. I fell in love with the city and the girls’ short skirts. It’s unavoidable not to notice. The best thing about the city is undoubtedly to travel through the canals, to travel in Soviet time through the subway and to stay until sunset. I was lucky to…
The wide nature of this country is something magnetizing and it definitely made me realize that I was also designed to live in the wild. Living the profound nomadic life was, no doubt, a simplified realization of my being. I stuck my feet in the earth and let them get the textures as I walked…
I arrived in China by train after two intense months in Russia and Mongolia. The last stop of the transmongolian was the faded-out Beijing station, which receives millions of travelers per hour. I felt tiny in that giant human confusion that hurriedly stepped on Chinese soil. I tried to guide myself into the new exotic…
