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London Calling #2
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. … Continue reading
London calling #1
The first of three posts collecting sketches from a recent trip to London, all drawn with a Duke Confucius Fude pen, some onto pre-stained pages, with various washes/colours etc Fellow passengers waiting on the opposite station platform…Myself in the window … Continue reading
Blue and gold
Five more sketches on pre-coloured paper, with blue and golden yellow backgrounds this time, the idea being to approximate skies and Bath stone, ish. I used the same process of drawing with the juicy fude pen, and then adding the … Continue reading
Remembrance Sunday
Remembrance Sunday in beautiful autumn light at Bath Cenotaph this morning. The band playing, a vicar leading the service, wreaths being presented and the salute being taken; a distant dog barking and a toddler laughing during the two minutes silence. … Continue reading
Posted in Bath, coloured paper, Duke Confucius, fude pen, urban, urban sketching
Tagged Remembrance Sunday, sketching in Bath, urban sketching
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All aboard…
Waiting at Bath Spa station (you can just see the ghost of a train I tried to draw that left too soon, its windows running across the centre of the sketch)… ..and en route to Shropshire. This fellow passenger was … Continue reading
Posted in Duke Confucius, fude pen, journeys, monochrome, trains, urban, urban sketching, Wales
Tagged duke confucius drawing, fude pen sketches, Sister Sledge, train sketching, urban sketching
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Pre-coloured pages
Sorry for the lack of posts since June (!). I accidentally fell out of the social media habit, which I guess is a good thing? Anyway, here are some recent experiments with sketching on pre-inked pages (A4). I’ve always enjoyed … Continue reading
Posted in Bath, buskers, coloured paper, Duke Confucius, fude pen, monochrome, street scene, urban, urban sketching, white pen
Tagged cafe sketches, fude ink pen, Joy Division, sketching in Bath, toned paper, urban sketching
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39 more analogue selfies…
…all done late evening to keep up the daily drawing habit/obsession, and all drawn with bent-nib fude pens, great for both strong blocks of shady ink and fine lines for hatching… (Many of these have been posted to this fun … Continue reading
Sequentialistical (Sequentialicious?)
Various attempts to sketch sequences of time passing, in most of my favourite media… Preparing a hot-air balloon for launch in Bath’s Victoria Park. The passengers help with the spreading out of the balloon, and help to hold it open … Continue reading
Posted in bamboo dip pen, Bath, cars, clouds, fude pen, gouache, journeys, landscape, sequential, urban, urban sketching
Tagged fude pen sketches, hot air balloon launch sketch, motorway sketches, sketch of hot air balloon, sketches from moving car, sketches of clouds, sketching in Bath, The Kinks, urban sketching
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Twenty seven mile view
Looking many many miles West from the top of Liverpool’s Anglican cathedral; across the city centre and docks, across the Mersey to Birkenhead, right across the top of the Wirral peninsula, then across the Dee estuary, past an offshore wind … Continue reading
Sketchers sketching sketchers sketching
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 … Continue reading
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