The second of three posts collecting sketches from recent trip to London. This time, mostly museums…
To the Museum of London to pay homage to a sacred relic, Paul Simenon’s bass guitar, as smashed on the cover of London Calling. Centrepiece of a small but lovely exhibition to mark 40 years since the album came out…
Then to the British Museum. Here’s the great court in the centre of the building, seen from an upper window…
(On my last visit I was able to study Rembrandt’s ‘Young Woman Sleeping’ up close; it’s a miraculous speedy sketch made up of about 40 brushstrokes. With my nose pressed against the glass, eyeballing it from about foot away, I had a go at recreating some sections, discovering even more details in the process. Taking the occasional break to sketch other visitors to the gallery…)
In the wonderful new Islamic gallery I copied faces from a huge 1950s linocut, fascinated by the different ways Zenderoudi made up eyes, noses, mouths etc…
Then some quick sketches of netsuke in the Japanese gallery…
And finally some more of the 6 million or so annual fellow visitors.
Mostly drawing 