Sitting on the Stairs in Castleford Library

I took the train to the small town of Castleford yesterday, to work in the library for the day, running drawing workshops with local children.

In my lunch break, I sat in the stairwell and sketched the view from the window. I’m not much into drawing cars, but I liked the long view right across the car park, across the shopping street, towards a river and distant hills. I was using a lovely tinted, concertina book a fellow member of Urban Sketchers Yorkshire made for me as a present, because I loved my tinted Strathmore so much:

Ignore the candlestick by the way: that’s part of a sketchcrawl day we did in Buxton a while ago.