Little Figure Sketches

Through the bus window.

Ancient Sweet Chestnut Tree

An ancient sweet chestnut tree in Kensington Gardens.

The Woodland Trust has constructed an ambitious database mapping the UK's 'ancient' trees. Users can type in their postcode and locate the wise old statesmen in their area.

Tents

At the Big Chill back in August. A little summer flashback.

Man in a Pub

A street in Harrogate

Regent's Park

Sorry for the shoddy scans!

More places

Okay, so it is true that most of these have been sketched out of the bedroom window.

Location Location

I've been doing more locationy sketches lately. Trying to keep ticking over.

Peoplefolk

The Shard above rooftops.

Some dogs

Sketched at a dog show at Earls Court last weekend.

More Lakes

A few more sketches from Cumbria.

 

Jake's Cabinets

I went down to Potters Field on friday to see Jake Spicer, who was running free outdoor figure-drawing in the park as part of the Big Draw. 

Jake runs the Brighton Life Drawing Sessions, and he had brought up one of three wheeled cabinets he has fashioned for an all-night mobile life drawing extravaganza that he is hosting in Brighton on saturday as part of the city's White Night. A pretty awesome and ambitious idea- you can find out more about Enlightenment, Life Drawing from the Cabinets of Wonder (and see a photo of one of the brilliant cabinets) here. If you're ever in Brighton I'd thoroughly recommend getting along to one of his life classes too.

Thanks very much to Jake and co for a great couple of hours drawing in the park.

Self portrait in mucky train window

Last Emperor of China

Some sketches from a documentary on the TV, from which I'm working up a painting.

 

Masterchef

This is the big food critic chap from Masterchef Australia (which is far superior to UK Masterchef).

Horses

Jack Bauer

Train