London urban sketch

A couple of weeks ago, along with the recently launched Urban Sketchers London and the regular Meetup group ‘Drawing London on Location‘, I organized a sketchcrawl around the Temple and Fleet Street areas of London. I am a guest correspondent on USk London, and was back visiting for a couple of weeks, so I […]

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Yep, I'm still wading through my sketches from Europe. Here are 10 from London, with a short note about each. I better get all my sketches posted, as I leave in two weeks for Australia and lot more sketching!!!! 1. The sketch above was done on a steamy afternoon along the Thames. Together with my friends Beliza Mendes and Anne Percival (that's Anne's right hand), we had a fabulous time wandering London. This sketch became the inspiration for my workshop at the Chicago symposium, "Lay It On…

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phonebox (containing phone) and clocktower (containing big ben) with a routemaster, well there's some typical run-of-the-mill londres for you. known as the "mother of parliaments". Some smartarse on the tour bus once questioned me on this (mid-flow), asking, "mother of parliaments? what about the icelandic althing?" "That's the father of parliaments," i replied in a flash. "But we always know who our mother is."

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Urban sketchers - drawing on location from observation - around and about London