[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-greenwich-green-man":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"This morning, I planned to go to the park and draw landscape, but it was so peaceful sitting in the courtyard at the \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/211745.html\">Royal Naval College\u003C/a> that I decided to draw something there. I assumed this carved keystone head would be Neptune, because it's a naval college, but as soon as I started sketching, I realised all the leaves meant it was a Green Man. Maybe that's because the college overlooks the park. He even has bows in his hair, he's really quite dolled up.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/green_man_greenwich-bf27f2fc4d.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI thought the sketch was okay, but I really wanted to mess with it a bit more, so I drew this while I was having coffee at nearby Rhodes Bakery. If you look by the door, you can see one of my framed drawings hanging there. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/green_man_greenwich_2-079fb4600f.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nRight now Greenwich is a great place if you want lovely and affordable bags and luggage. I popped in and said hello and had a natter about being self-employed with \u003Ca href=\"http://www.sophiaandmatt.co.uk/\">Sophia & Matt\u003C/a>, who make their own beautiful bags. And I found this German guy, \u003Cb>Guenter Werner\u003C/b>, in Greenwich Market selling bags he'd made with London map-themed material. Got one of those red-bottomed backpack-sacks for a tenner. They should go down a storm with the Olympics crowd.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/made_in_london_gwerner-cba341354b.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nOh, and \u003Cb>Jurgen Wolff\u003C/b> has posted some \u003Ca href=\"http://timetowrite.blogs.com/weblog/2012/06/this-graphic-novelist-has-great-advice-for-all-kinds-of-writers.html\">good tips about making a graphic novel sell\u003C/a>, after listening to \u003Cb>Karrie Fransmen\u003C/b>'s talk on the subject.","2012-06-20T15:32:00.000Z","greenwich-green-man",[],"greenwich green man",1776628721988]