[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-more-greenwich-landscapes":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"Last night I showed Stuart \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/324424.html\">that day's sketch from the park\u003C/a>, and was sitting there feeling a bit glum and irritable about how it looked. I decided I'd do another quick doodle, not caring and just taking the mick out of what I'd drawn. But then I got so absorbed in mocking my own picture that I ended up being quite pleased with the outcome. (And I looked at the clock and realised just how late it was.)\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/greenwichpark-9f62076e6f.gif\">\\r\n\\r\nThe park looked far more interesting this morning, with loads of strong shadows and golden light. I haven't attempted any colour work, but I tried using pencil instead of pen (since I'm putting myself through the \u003Ca href=\"http://www.themousehunter.com/\">Alex Milway\u003C/a>/\u003Ca href=\"http://philipreeve.tumblr.com/\">Philip Reeve\u003C/a> Landscape Course 101, and Philip \u003Ca href=\"http://philipreeve.tumblr.com\">uses pencil\u003C/a>). Alex recommended I look at work by \u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspar_David_Friedrich\">Caspar David Friedrich\u003C/a>, \u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Constable\">John Constable\u003C/a> and \u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste-Camille_Corot\">Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot\u003C/a>. That's really helpful. (Thanks, Alex!) I know these guys' work, but it's a totally different thing to get a book with some good prints in it and take it drawing with me, so I can be sitting there drawing a tree, and turn a page to see how one of them did it. I still have a very long way to go.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/greenwichpk_15sept10_2-034e7edae2.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nYesterday I sat on a damp tussock (undoubtedly widdled on by countless dogs), but today I sat on a bench and sketched in palatial grandeur. When I used to work from home, I sometimes used to take a packed lunch to this colonnade between the Queen's House and the National Maritime Museum. I only ever saw old people sitting there, but some of them had great stories. My favourite ones came from a retired merchant seaman, and I wished I'd had a voice recorder with me.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/greenwichpk_15sept10_3-86e6f24419.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nA couple more picture of the \u003Ca href=\"http://www.nmm.ac.uk\">National Maritime Museum\u003C/a> in the morning. Have you seen their \u003Cb>Toy Boats\u003C/b> exhibition? It's fabulous. (I made two blog posts about it, \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/298338.html\">here\u003C/a> and \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/298520.html\">here\u003Ca>.) \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/greenwichpk_15sept10_4-286216ab59.jpg\">","2010-09-15T10:04:00.000Z","more-greenwich-landscapes",[],"more greenwich landscapes",1776628718730]