An antique phone, a g-clamp, and nine leather jackets; all from life, and all illustrating a particular story in Barry’s book. It’s interesting to be using fountain-pen for these, as almost all my daily sketching is now done using brush-pens. Pen-lines have a clarity that I can’t match with the brush, yet. But that loss is more than compensated for by the speed and flexibility of the ink-brush. And at one hour each I can’t really call these sketches; shadow studies? Experiments in Lexington grey? (Previous illustrations for the book further below)

Lexington grey in fountain-pen and water-brush, water-colour, A4 – One hour