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Travel thumbnails #2, trains
You can see so many subjects for a sketch when travelling, but you’re usually moving past too fast for anything detailed… I’ve been trying quick thumbnail sketches when on the move and gouache seems perfect for capturing the basic shapes … Continue reading
Posted in from life, gouache, journeys, Lexington grey, sky, trains, travel, weather
Tagged landscape, rain, sky, The Guillemots, thumbnail sketches, train windows, transportation, visual memory
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People watching
Istanbullus sitting, walking, fishing, watching, on the phone, and waiting. Slowly learning to construct figure drawings out of lots and lots of curves. Fountain pen with carbon ink, Pigma 1mm black pen, water-brush with Lexington Grey ink, A5
Posted in body, brush pen, from life, Istanbul, line drawing, monochrome, people, sketching, urban, waiting
Tagged curves, figure drawing, fishing, Istanbullus, on the phone, people watching, Richard Hawley, sitting
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Tea please
Some of the many cups of black tea that I enjoyed in Istanbul, in a variety of media. Good practise for drawing ellipses; it’s very obvious when they’re right or wrong…
Posted in cafe, collections, from life, Istanbul, objects, sketching
Tagged black tea, drawing ellipses, ellipses, Istanbul, tea, tea cups, The Rutles
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Tomb, hydrant, B+B
A final group of sketches from Portugal before I get to grips with scanning all the Istanbul pictures… The tomb of Luis Vaz de Camoes, Portugal’s greatest poet, in Jeronimos Monastery, Lisbon. Fountain pen with Carbon ink, water-brush with Lexington … Continue reading
Posted in buildings, from life, Lisbon, Portugal, sketching, travel, urban, watercolour sketch
Tagged hydrant, Jean-Christophe Defline, Jeronimos, Luis Vaz de Camoes, Palace, Sintra, Spiritualized, tomb
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Mosques at night
I was in Istanbul during Ramadan which meant the streets, squares and mosques were busy till late at night, with families breaking their day’s fast and socialising. I could wander around the centre of the old town as part of … Continue reading
Posted in buildings, from life, Istanbul, line drawing, monument, night, urban, white marker pen
Tagged architecture, Atik Ali Pasha, Blue mosque, Dobie Gray, minaret, mosques, night time, Ramadan, Suleymaniye
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Steep street
Looking up a street near the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul, next to the entrance to the seventeenth century Valide Han or caravanserai on the right. It was a Sunday and most of the shops were closed, with shutters down. The Han … Continue reading
Posted in buildings, from life, Istanbul, Lexington grey, monochrome, sketching, travel, urban
Tagged caravanserai, Grand Bazaar, street scene, Valide Han, Van der Valk, wicket gate
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Jet set
My view on the way to Turkey, about 5 miles high, somewhere over France. I spent 6 days in Istanbul, mostly sketching, which was a great luxury. So lots to scan and post over the coming weeks, including lots of lovely … Continue reading
Posted in airplane, clouds, from life, gouache, Istanbul, journeys, Lexington grey, monochrome, travel
Tagged airport, sky, The Kinks
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Londoners
19 of the thousands of people I saw yesterday in a very hot London. Sketched in cafes, train stations and the passport office where I was getting my passport renewed at extremely short notice ready for a return trip to Istanbul … Continue reading
Posted in from life, Lexington grey, monochrome, people, sketching, urban, waiting
Tagged cafe, London, pigma pens, profiles, station
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Brock Street
Late afternoon, looking down Brock Street while sat under one of the huge plane trees in the centre of the King’s Circus, Bath. There’s a red sight-seeing bus heading towards towards the Royal Crescent, and a delivery van parked up … Continue reading
Posted in Bath, buildings, from life, gouache, Lexington grey, sketching, urban
Tagged architecture, Bath stone, Brock Street, heatwave, Kings Circus, Marthe Reeves, plane treees
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Toy museum
A couple of sketches from the wonderful and surprisingly large Toy Museum in Sintra, Portugal. The museum houses the personal collection of João Arbués Moreira, who was there on the day we visited, keen to chat about his favourite exhibits and … Continue reading
Posted in airplane, collections, exhibitions, from life, grisaille, Lexington grey, monochrome, museum, objects, Portugal, sketching
Tagged doll's heads, dolls, Edwin Starr, heads, model plane, Sintra, staircase
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