Helen from St Helens in Society Cafe, Bath. She got in touch through this blog as she was interested in urban sketching and having a look at the materials I use. She’s posted about her initial sketches, and it’ll be interesting to see how her move into drawing influences her other work. (One of the reasons I set up this blog was to help generate sketch crawls in Bath, and this is the first example of it working. Thanks Helen!)
Fountain pen with carbon ink, watercolour, A5
Mostly drawing 
Ed do enjoy your blog. I also am interested in the sketch crawl concept. I like to draw in cafes too.
Hi Mark
thanks for the comment and for following the blog.
I’d love to set up monthly (or thereabouts) sketch crawl meetings in Bath, and am hoping to generate enough interest through the blog, contacts/posters in local art shops, local artist groups etc. and will also create a separate blog to act as a forum for messages/meetings etc. That’s the plan anyway.
(There are several self-declared urban sketchers in Bristol, and also a blog at
http://bristolsketchers.blogspot.co.uk
so I might try and join them one weekend.)
In the meantime it would be great to meet up for some cafe sketching. Any favourite locations? Possible dates to meet?
Best wishes
Ed