Tag Archives: london sketches
world’s most excellent cream puff!
It’s official, you can’t beat this cream puff. It’s from the Carmelli Bakery in Golders Green. Stuart and I took it to Hampstead Heath and had a picnic on the lawn of Kenwood House. Which was a little silly, because … Continue reading
today i met a dwarf binnacle
I’d been working since 7 this morning and it was doing my head in. So I rode my bike over to the National Maritime Museum, where all the daffodills were blooming, and did this little sketch of a ‘portable liquid … Continue reading
greenwich rambling
Just a quick drawing today, from a Reynolds painting at the Queen’s House, part of our tour of Greenwich and Blackheath with our house guest, Yoko. (The guy in the painting looks an awful lot like John Malkovich, which isn’t … Continue reading
homework
I’m excited about my watercolour class tonight. Here’s my attempt to do this scene in watercolour, using one colour, without a lot of line work. It’s okay, but I can tell I have a lot to learn over the next … Continue reading
shad thames
I did this drawing pretty fast with my brush pen, but I’d like to try again with some tonal watercolour work. My parents have been sending me links to a documentary called The King of Kong, about this guy Steve … Continue reading
blistering barnacles
I was only going to go for a quick morning coffee again at the National Maritime Museum, but I got sucked into drawing there until lunchtime. I wonder how many lifetimes it would take to sketch all the amazing things … Continue reading
sweeney todd + paranoia
I just got home from seeing ‘Sweeney Todd’ with friends in Peckham. Lots of throat slitting and gore and very, very atmospheric. I’d spent all yesterday morning cycling around London’s old wharves, so I really identified with Tim Burton’s cool … Continue reading
coffee and the siege of lucknow
This morning I cycled down the road to the National Maritime Museum to get coffee and clear my head. It’s been a bit claustrophobic at home in my workspace, especially when the construction workers outside turn on this earth flattening … Continue reading
morning thames sketch
I’m very tired of unproductive mornings, I am SO not a morning person. So fairly early today, I took a flask of coffee down to the river and sat at one of the picnic tables at the Cutty Sark tavern … Continue reading
old surgery house
Everything’s taken a fine art slant since my sister arrived. It’ll only last for less than a week, so I’m making the most of it. She spent the morning painting a picture of me on a huge canvas I’d stowed, … Continue reading
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