Doha Qatar RESULTS

Saturday April 16th 2011 - Earthquake & tsunami emergency Benefit
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Following Enrico's idea to raise money to help our fellow artists and all our friends in Japan, let's get together in Doha and see how much we can raise.

Who wants to join me? Suggestions for time and place?
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Due to some people only having Friday off in Qatar, I'm planning this event to start after Friday prayers on 15th April.

We are meeting in the Atrium Lounge, Sheraton Hotel and will sketch our way along the Corniche to the Museum of Islamic Arts' coffee shop. However, people can join us at any point.

All money will be donated through Artists Help Japan through [give2asia.org]. I have set up a FB event "31st WW SketchCrawl Doha" if anyone would like to contact me or you can PM me here.

Please confirm your attendance and help me raise lots of money for Japan.

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FYI after posting the Doha event on Facebook & telling a couple of friends, in 24hours we have 10 confirmed sketchers woo hoo

How many can we make it on the 15th????
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Yesterday, unfortunately due to storms over the last few days and pouring rain on Friday morning, we were only 7 sketchers in the end. However, that's a new record for Doha sketchers. I want to say a big THANK YOU to those who braved the weather.

We stayed at the hotel meeting point for 2 hours in case anyone else was going to show up and until we were out of inspiration, drinking coffees and sketching everything, but it was only the 7 of us when we moved on. Outside it was still raining and very windy, so a plan B was quickly hatched. Jumping into the cars we went to a local's cafe at the other end of the Corniche and secured a table outside, but under a straw awning. Sketching recommenced whilst more teas and coffees were drunk and some shisha (hubbly bubbly pipes) smoked.

Again, thank you all for turning up and making it a successful afternoon. Our donation envelope held 330 Qatari Rial, about $90 at the end of the day. My sponsorship and an amount for a pencil sketch a colleague commissioned me to do are still to be collected.

Sue

A selection of photos from the Doha SketchCrawl
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My 1st sketch. Brunch at the Atrium.
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F sketching me sketching him
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Khamis. I gave him the sketch in exchange for a donation
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Doha sketchers
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More sketches and photos are on my blog.
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Great to see you from Doha Qatar.
I think you did beautiful work and you
prevailed despite the weather. And
you got donations. Great job, guys.
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Good to see the results of some sketchers who braved the weather. Nice work
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Thank you Annie & Lola.
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Oh, how lovely to see that you had 7 members in total! Nice to see you all! The first sketch is so lovely! These are wonderful portraits and I'm sure the sponsor loves your work :thumbup: Thanks for your support.
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Nice work, Dohar artists. You guys are dedicated sketchers, and your charitable efforts toward relief work are so commendable.
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Hi Doha Sketchers,
Great effort getting everybody together Sue! You are all dedicated and I loved those portraits,

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It's great that you could manage to work despite the weather. You seem to be such a nice group! Hope to see some more of your sketches...
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