by Chris | Apr 4, 2019 | Urban Sketching
A day out with my family in London visiting the Greenwich Maritime Museum and the Cutty Sark. I had to do the sketch above, it’s such a lovely architectural subject. Trying to simplify this into its component parts was the challenge, so as not to take more than...
by Chris | Mar 18, 2019 | Urban Sketching
Out with the Birmingham Urban Sketchers Group on 17th March 2019 for attempts to capture something of the St Patrick’s Day Parade in Digbeth. Not easy when the wind is furious, and suddenly sleet and hail come out of nowhere! Add to that moving targets to try...
by Chris | Mar 11, 2019 | Urban Sketching
A bright but very windy Saturday drew me out with my sketchbook, not with a group this time but on my own for a bit of sketching. However familiar places are to us in our own home town, they transform in our minds when we start to sketch them and we see them afresh. I...
by Chris | Mar 6, 2019 | Urban Sketching
The first days of Spring, and appropriately enough I find myself out again with the hardy Urban sketchers of Birmingham meeting at Spring Hill Library. I managed to get the first sketch in before we officially met at 11.00am. ...
