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Found Interior
I've gone large on this, 14" x 11"! I didn't mean to, but it was a question of scale, being close up. The challenge here is the Buddleia. As mass of organic forms that I have to draw with some sort of...
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The door is always open
The Eagle is a Toby Carvery. It has lovely ironwork which is quite difficult to draw on a small scale and if I draw all of it, I run the risk of the whole piece being just about that. I know the...
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The Display Copy
Point Me To The SkiesWell, here it is, the first giclee print. There will be a set of five altogether. The artist book will appear when I've decided on how to make it, and thanks to Pinterest that...
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The Pentagon Nightmare
I came across this lovely octagonal brick ceiling in a Victorian Gothic Revival pile, designed by Alfred Waterhouse, also responsible for The Natural History Museum. Way too nice a design to leave...
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Constable Landscape
I remembered this delightful piece when me and John Constable (yes really!) started following each other on Twitter. You will have to click on this to make it big enough to read, but it's well worth...
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George Green
Wanstead, to be precise. This is those delightful convoluted Victorian public drinking fountains. Anyway I fancied the challenge and thought it would make a somewhat involved study. I took some 14" x...
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Made in Chelsea
Cadogan PierI was down here on Saturday on a London Urban Sketchers' Crawl. I also said I wasn't going to come back as it's on the other side of town to me. So on Monday morning I was heading for...
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Another George
This one is The George. I'd been going back and forth about drawing this for weeks, so on Monday I ventured up the High Road to find the best view minus the traffic lights. The steps are the most...
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Two of Five
There are smaller versions of all five on my site, and the one off West End and City print. All I have to do now is sort out the packaging, and then, print on demand!
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The spires are reproducing ...
Very little new drawing has gone on for the the last few weeks due to getting ready for a show! Yes, it's going to be very exciting having these little drawings get together and take on a life of their...
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Spires Launch Night
One of 5 launch night ads, loads more work to do until setting up. And of course I am right on it :)
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Bookmaker
This might only have eight pages and measure 40 x 63mm but it still took me a good two days to put together. More work than you can see here because I was setting up 10 designs; which will need to be...
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Popping down the road
Another one for the South Woodford Village Gazette, not from life. None of it, way too cold to do anymore than use a camera. The animals were found wandering around on Google. Any sensible person would...
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Launch Night
Official advert/invitation all done, well at least the front. Still loads to do on the publicity trail but all very exciting and interesting work. The next 54 days will fly by. If you are going to be...
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"Feels like -2º" on the 7th March
St George BloomsburyMarylebone Parish ChurchI've gone back to using my beloved 0.5 HB Faber Castell clutch pencil. Even though I love ink, I do have a soft spot for the particular varigated line of...
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St Michael and All Angels
It was a bit of a faff negotiating London Overground to Blackheath, but well worth it when I looked up and saw this!
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Kings Cross
Gray's Inn Road 100ºSt Pancras Hotel 24ºLondon Urban Sketcher's Day Out today, cloudy and a damp, seeping cold at 8ºC. Anyway, today I was going to paint, really paint, with only a minimum of light...
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Point Me to the Skies, St Katherine Cree
Point Me to the SkiesPhoto: Thomas CorriePlanning a solo show is an amazing experience, which lasts six months. Don't even think about doing one in less. The reason it takes so long, is that your ideas...
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More fish in the sea, and in Waitrose
For The South Woodford Village GazetteRather more organic than architecture but the rules of proportion remain the same. I drew this in pencil on site, in Waitrose, with permission, and watercolored it...
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Kings Cross St Pancras
After a couple of months umm-ing and ah-ing about it, I decided today was the day and got the paint box out. In a previous post on this drawing, I owned up to using the 'wrong sort' of paper for using...
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