The Cheesegrater and friends

 Pencil. 149 x 210 mm Evelyn Rowland

with Yves Damin from Paris USk at St Gabriel Wharf 27/12/13

A very small sketchcrawl at very short notice and I only made it to the second half! The rain stopped and the wind subsided so despite it being pretty nippy out, I managed a couple of drawings  and a coffee in three hours. 

The Cheesegrater and friends

Posh Banger Boys in SE1

Pencil and watercolour 210 x 149 mm Evelyn Rowland

A very pleasant afternoon at an impromptu pop up sketch session courtesy of James Hobbs. This is number 8 Stoney Street; a  takeaway on the ground floor. I got enticed by a few random chimney pots, window frames and brick arches over the first floor windows. The actual shop part is not quite as romantic as the rest of the building suggests. 

I went back during the week for another go. It was supposed to be a simple little drawing with some nice brick work. Again I learn that the simplest ideas are often the hardest ones to get down. 

Posh Banger Boys in SE1

Draw: Borough Market on Saturday 14 December

Able to meet to draw at Borough Market on Saturday 14 December for a few hours?
Come and join us if you can from 1.30pm when a group of us will be meeting by the tables outside the Porteña stall in the market. There will lots of warming sustenance around to fight the cold weather.
Text 07891 611919 to find us.

Draw: Borough Market on Saturday 14 December

East from the Millennium

Southwark Bridge

The original sketch from St Paul's side of the Millennium Bridge. I returned the next day to finish off the drawing. On Saturday, even though the sky was a greenish blue with ominous grey clouds, the early afternoon sunlight turned the buildings to lovely ice cream colours. Unfortunately, I had to hold that thought, as on Sunday our weather returned to normal.

East from the Millennium

Courts of Justice

Courts of Justice in Strand

This is a rather long sketch done with red pencil. Royal courts is a very interesting and challenging piece of architecture to draw from!

Courts of Justice

Rising Sun over Carter Lane EC4

   Rising Sun over Carter Lane.                             Pencil and watercolour 149 x 210 mm

I went out to paint from Blackfriars Bridge this afternoon but spotted this cosy little group before I got there. Bright and rather cold but I know I wouldn't have survived very long over  the Thames today. Alright, it wasn't that bad ... I shouldn't be so weedy.

Rising Sun over Carter Lane EC4

Two sketches from Islington

Saturday morning in Upper street

Evening near The Crown pub, Cloudesley Road

The first sketch is with pencil, and a second one is ballpoint pen, both done in the streets around Angel Underground.

Two sketches from Islington