I like sketching aspects of urban life which I happily accept until I get to the bit where I name them. That’s when I reflect on the incongruity.
Such as a Cornish Cream Tea – in London (at the Wallace Restaurant).
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| Cornish Cream Tea at the Wallace Restaurant, Wallace Collection
11″ x 16″, pen and sepia ink and coloured pencils in Moleskine Sketchbook |
or sketching Venice – or rather a painting of Venice by Richard Parkes Bonington – while sat inside an art museum in London (at the Wallace Collection)
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| Sketch of Venice: the Piazza San Marco (1828)
an oil painting by Richard Parkes Bonington 11″ x 8″, pen and ink and coloured pencil in Moleskine Sketchbook |
If you ever get to London, do visit the Wallace Collection in Manchester Square – it’s quite unlike any other art museum in London – and has some stunning paintings.
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