Britain

London Underground

Britain, Sketch, Street scene
Fellow travellers.

The London Underground is a neverending flow of interesting faces. These are based on people I watched and recalled afterwards.

A walk in the woods

Botanical, Britain, Sketch

Some sketches from the Forest of Dean. Perhaps I’m the only one this fascinated by the curve of the fallen tree trunk.

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An interesting fallen trunk


A curved fallen tree trunk on the forest floor.

…this is what it looked like in real life.


Moss and creatures

And a close-up!

    Drawing busts

    Britain, croquis, Nib and ink, Sketch, Street scene

    …both marble and plaster busts, of course. The Royal Academy of Arts has a nice feature – a room where they’ve busted out (ha) (sorry) their old …busts, and made them into a pleasure/education feature by adding benches and free paper and pencils. You can sketch the busts and practice drawing. Or if you’re me, you sketch a few busts, and a few sketchers.

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    The mauve Uni-Ball is a very unforgiving pen for sketching, especially moving tragets like the bearded art lover. But the HB pencils provided by the museum were even less satisfying when I used them for the readers on the bench.

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    These guys stood still for their portraits… very still.

    Office swap meet posters

    Britain, Comics, Events, sustainable development, Watercolour

    A small and delightful project: drawings for the office swap meet (which I’m also organising). My dayjob office is by far the most diverse place I’ve worked, but there are still subcategories of colleague. So I wanted to draw people who’d look like real colleagues… but not exactly like any one colleague. I think one or two (or three) did end up being very close to real individuals. I’ll see if they spot themselves!

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    Mo tools, mo joy!