A day out in East London

Recent sketches...

A random couple drinking coffee in Kew Gardens; Richmond Green; Westfield shopping centre.

Bonsai hippo

Metasequoia glyptostroboides

Went to Isabella Plantation with my sin-laws yesterday and tried to capture a tree that had caught my eye on my previous visit. It's come out ok, but I think I'd like to have another shot at it when I'm not in company!

Banksy-vs-Bristol Museum

I finally got to see this exhibition yesterday, and it was awesome. I had hoped to do some sketching whilst in there, but given the extraordinarily long queues outside (4 hours +) it felt a bit selfish to stand around sketching while there were so many people waiting to come in. So this is the only sketch of the day, a view of the outside of the museum taken while drinking hot chocolate at a cafe across the road.

Isabella Plantation 16/07/2009

Went for a walk in Isabella Plantation on Thursday evening with Matt. It was lovely, so peaceful. There are a lot of deer in Richmond Park, but we were very lucky to see one so close up - it was grazing not far from the entrance to the Plantation and we ended up creeping closer and closer until we were only a couple of metres away. These sketches were done from photos when I got home.

Tree surgeon ahoy!

A quick sketch of a tree surgeon in action pollarding a tree.