EVENT | Live portraits @ OBN Tennis Canada Players' Party
Event Live Portraits | 🎾 National Bank Open 🎾 I was invited to live-sketch at the "Soirée des Joueuse" party by National Bank Open - Canadian Open Tennis Tournament / Omnium Banque Nationale - Tournoi de Tennis du Canada (OBN25) at the Fairmont Queen Elizabeth Hotel, where Yoko Ono and John Lennon held their "Bed Peace" in 1969. 🎾 In a foreign land, I met players from my hometown, as well as tennis players from various European countries. I'm not a tennis fan, so I observed and understood them from the perspective of a "bystander" in painting: they travel the world every year to compete, lacking the physical energy and travel to foreign countries for tournaments. All they have is solitude and regular training. They are accompanied by coaches who have become life partners, and parents who accompany them to study. It's difficult to develop long-term friendships in one place... Behind all the brilliance lies hard work and dedi...
