in and out all day...

I`ve been out sketching about four times today, all in short spurts. So all the sketches are very close to the apartment... I managed quite a few though, and they are all uploaded here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ruinakao/sets/72157625246639935/
 This one is at a water channel, typical to this area... they manage storm/runoff and flow into the river, but this one is deep enough that there are some large carp swimming elegantly in the murky water. There are perhaps hundreds of them in the Nagayo River, mostly 12 inches or more in length, and they add dignified dashes of bright yellow, red, and orange to the otherwise brutal concrete waterway.





Some colour remains at the dilapidated shopfronts of the main market street... but I was delighted to see it alive in the late afternoon before dinner preparations.