CURRENT MISSION

sharing sketches from cities to rest of world

ABOUT ME

Hi, My name is Omar. I am a traveller artist and a urban sketcher. I like to travel to different places and sketch them and share the drawings and watercolors in internet. I am correspondent for the artist network www.urbansketchers.org I have share the architecture, lives and faces of distant places like Sicily, Abu Dhabi and Newfoundland. I speak Spanish, German, English, Italian and a little arabic (still learning)
When i travel I like to meet other people that draw to sketch together on the streets.
I write my experiences on my blog; http://omar-paint.blogspot.com

PHILOSOPHY

I try to accept every day and make the best of it.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I order to paint i have to be able to share the vision of the local people. I have to be look through their eyes.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

This is my first experience, so be kind to me. :-)

Interests

books, painting watercolors, drawing, sketching, art, music, cooking and earting.

• arts
• books
• architecture
• sketching
• cooking
• traveling
• blogging
• painting
• drawing
• music

Music, Movies, and Books

100 años de soledad, Garcia Marques
Das Parfum, Patrik Suskin
The Travels of Ibn Battuta, Tim Mackintosh-Smith
The Hall of Thousand Columns, Tim Mackintosh-Smith
Music, Tango and Jazz, traditional music
Movies: Almodovar, the Beach, Trainspotting

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

watch the sunset on the top of a dune in the desrt in Al Ain. The red sands floating in the air filter the light into an amazing glow.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can show a few tricks about how to sketch and how to keep an sketch journal.

Countries I’ve Visited

Brazil, Chile, Denmark, Greece, Netherlands, Oman, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Ecuador, Germany, Italy, United Arab Emirates

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