Travelling on public transport usually involves some waiting, and opportunities for a quick sketch of people at rest. It’s when a small portable sketch kit is most useful, and provides excellent practise for capturing a likeness. Here’s a selection from the last 2 months.

A bag/bin at Keynsham railway station, and a fellow passenger minutes later.

Catching a #6 bus into Bath city centre.

A reader in the waiting room at Didcot railway station.

And fellow passengers on the #1 Vaporetto water-bus in Venice.

Fountain pen with carbon ink, or water-brush with Lexington grey, watercolour, A5