Wren’s Warren, Ashdown Forest. Ink and watercolour, 42 x 13cm.
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Worth Way
Cold Canary
Another exciting day with the Urban Sketchers London group.
The first drawing is the building work at Newfoundland Point, where you can see the “Shard”, the “Cheesegrater”, and the “Gherkin” on the horizon. The challenges here were:
1) the freezing cold wind
2) the surveyor who needed to need to plant his theodolite right in front of me
3) the clouds of sooty smoke belching from a vent
4) the fact that cranes move (there was actually only one orange crane)
5) did I mention the freezing cold wind?
In the afternoon, we moved to the Roof Garden above the new Crossrail Station, where it was slightly less cold!
Nonetheless, Canary Wharf is full of interesting drawing subjects and it was a great day out; many thanks to Katherine for organising it, and to everyone who came along.
Both drawings: Ink and watercolour, 42 x 13cm.
Winter greens
Worth Church
A corner of the car park
Stuff on a shelf
Worth: Church, house, van
Plan A was to draw the church at Worth, but it was too cold and windy, so I settled for Plan B, and drew the house that’s next to the church, from the warmth of the car.
The van arrived just after I’d started, blocking the view of the house, so I ended up with Plan C: draw the van.
Ink and watercolour, 42 x 13cm. Click to enlarge.