Had a great day sketching with Gary Yeung (visiting the UK from Hong Kong) and Jim (visiting central Bath from Oldfield Park); we met for a similar sketchcrawl last year, posted here. Three sketchers sketching their immediate environment together led to the usual hall of mirrors effect, with sketchers sketching sketchers etc.! I love seeing the different approaches we took for exactly the same scene; different details, focal points, media, line weight, palette… Jim’s approach is very ‘painterly’, with a clear focus on tone and shade, while Gary’s is more illustrative, clear line and strong colour.
Rain forced us to start the day in a cinema cafe… I drew the general scene, taking various liberties with perspective and scale to fit more people in and to enable the viewer to see further into and around the space.
Me, enthusing about the Duke Confucius fude pen…
Here’s Gary’s sketch of me and Jim…
Jim’s drawing of me painting.
After a typical sketchers lunch (brief mouthfuls of sandwich in between chat about inks, palettes, art books, paper etc) the rain gave up, so we sketched outside a pub in central Bath. I managed to get Gary and Jim into my sketch this time, along with my patient dog and sundry passers-by, drinkers, drinks, seagulls etc.
Gary’s view, he’d switched to pencil…
Jim’s drawing of the cafe and Gary.
Group photo! I’m looking forward to our next meet-up, either in Bath, or Cardiff, or Hong Kong, or Amsterdam..?
Mostly drawing 
beautiful works!
Looks fun! YES to Amsterdam!
– Tina
Inspiring as always. 3 very talented artists. As a watercolourist, I particularly like Gary’s use of color, washes, wet-in-wet technique & bare paper in his color sketch – vibrant! I wonder if he is familiar with/inspired by the work of American watercolorist, Charles Reid? The writing on the signs particularly impressed me — am I the only person to struggle capturing such details? Perhaps the ink pen is mightier than the brush? 🙂
Jim’s sketch of Gary really captures him (from what I see in the photo anyway!).Portraits .are a real challenge. You all seem able to capture such complex scenes,with considerable detail, quickly – I tend to look for simpler subjects.