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London Urban Sketchers at Horniman Museum, near Forest Gate

25/3/2017

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Again a huge number of us arrived  for a day sketching - but one could spend days there as there's so much and a wide variety.  A sound garden, small farm, Farmers Market and stunning views over the City not to mention the museum itself.

Many went for the London view - I was one - others, brave ones did the Victorian Conservatory and others the animals.  Some of the work can be seen on Facebook here.

It was a cool, gusty but sunny day so I went for the view from the terrace and a quickie of the Market which was on the terrace...in the afternoon to get warm I studied people from above...the foreshortening effect is challenging.  Again learnt more than I achieved.
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The Rose Theatre, Kingston

18/3/2017

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A strange venue this Saturday morning,second floor crush bar at The Rose Theatre, Kingston.  There was the opportunity for a study of the High Street from 10 meters up framed by the vertical windows but that needs several studies and some return visits to pull it of.

So instead I observed people who it seems mainly on a grey and blustery day prefer dull clothing. The exception a brave Asian lady, the gusts catching her long flowing multi coloured dress; and a few I picked in colours lest I have a few pages of dull. The wind caught longer hair, particularly a matching pair in red and green anoraks (correctly right and left for navigation lights). The steep angle foreshortening legs.
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Brown's Brasserie and Bar, Kingston-upon-Thames.

4/3/2017

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Ten of the local group I sketch with occasionally met here on Saturday morning, about half braving the chill off the river. Not me! A coffee and warmth looking out through the firm grid of the windows caught my imagination, making a striking image.  I have been trying to get away from direct pictorial representation, getting more appreciation of the 'unseen' onto the page.  In Paul Nash's exhibition just closing at Tate Britain the 'Unseen Landscapes' section quotes him thus: 'They are unseen merely because they are not perceived'.  No change there in our modern high speed life. Despite taking time to measure the perspective its still way out in the middle...but hey, only a sketch and was fun. 
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Twenty five minutes left for a quickie looking the other way...
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