Last night at a restaurant

Lazy morning

Here are a couple of coastal scenes which I did from photos. The water consists of a blue base colour which is a reflection of the sky, and a yellow green for the wave shapes which I added when the blue was dry.

Here is a sketch as a sort of quick study of light and dark and composition for future reference.

The Anchor Pub at Bankside in London. Lots of interesting detail. The aim is to find ways of representing detail without drawing every line.

Using cross hatching to build up a three-dimensional scene.

This gate with the dense hedge caught my eye. The gate was drawn as a negative space - left as white against the darker shapes.

A pen and wash drawing of the Rendez-vous des Amis in Montmartre. I began by laying down areas of watercolour wash to describe the forms loosely. I finished with the dip pen and Indian ink to put in the detail. The photos below show the different stages...

 

 

Here's the drawing of the elephants at the Natural History Museum in London. I placed the two together although they were not in that position. I did the drawing at the museum in about 3 to 4 hours using a dip pen and black Indian ink.