The tree this year has a distinct list but rather than people think I can’t draw straight (pride) corrected it.
The idea was to meet later than usual to catch the Norway Spruce Tree as it became dusk. But with a Rugby match, KO 3:00pm I’d have to leave at 2:00 – so went early and found a great perch – so I thought – in Prêt a Manger just to the south. Oh those dreaded double decker busses at the traffic lights. An interrupted sketch...fountain, National Gallery, Tree and the front part of a lion. The tree this year has a distinct list but rather than people think I can’t draw straight (pride) corrected it. For my second I went for the perspective from close below the neo-classical offices on the corner of The Strand and Northumberland Avenue. Interesting too as it was window cleaning day. I assume harnesses were being used but I was too busy with my pen to check. And to continue the precarious theme finished with a couple of the Levitating Santas – a new twist on those all too common human statues – all along the pedestrianised front of The National Gallery, a dozen of them, mostly Santa but a couple of Star Wars characters and a witch or two. At least they were relatively still. I asked them to sign but it was difficult while holding on tightly to their post to do other than capitals.
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February 2019
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