I was a lucky participant of the Asia-Link Sketchwalk in Taichung, Taiwan in 2018. When I go there, Kumi introduced her friend Elaine, who lives in Taichung. She kindly met me and introduced her friend Claire to get to Taomi, where I wanted to go to see eco-village's frogs after the Sketh-Link. So, thanks to these people it became a sketch exchange in the famous eco-village Taomi , Puli Township, Taiwan.  ←With Elaine Jean on the first day of Sketch-Link in Taichung Claire picked me up in Puli and made a favor to me, introducing her hometown and friends. My goal was to see the frogs, for which the Taomi village is famous, so we go to Frog Grandma's hostel together with the local sketchers group. There we sketched the garden of the Grandma. It was full of flowers and butterflies. The leader of the sketching group is the oldest sketcher in Puli. His name is Sun Shao-Ying (or Sun Sensei, how the group called him). Among his works is documentation of the Jiji earthq...

Day 2, Feb 12th ( Monday) This day, Maria led us. We ( all of us) were to lined up and stand one side of the road, face the view seen across the street and sketch it for seven minutes. Then we cross the road to face the opposite side to sketch for another seven minutes, so you can make two sketches at one location. We repeated this six times as we proceed. We drew a pair of sketches of one location on a sheet, with the manner just like we learned the other day by Richard: description, detailed partial drawing, and whole image. This was a quite “scales fall off from eyes” experience to me. Something you think you've seen and known are actually not what you really know that much. It was just like rediscover the both side of the same coin which usually we don't care which side is which and what kind of subject is depicted. I myself find how characteristic each and every precinct, house, public building is, it seems there is no rules regarding public appearance. So disorder ...