Summer sketches

[By Lis Watkins in London] I’ve
been trying out some new materials this summer, a Seawhite Eco A4 sketchbook
from the Manchester Symposium goodie bag and a small set of Cotman watercolours
with a brush pen which I was given via an illustration job. I’d become rather
addicted to using the large Moleskine watercolour sketchbooks which are lovely
but because of the landscape format, they tend, with me anyway, to influence
the composition of the drawing.  The
drawings here are of the Hive, an installation at Kew Gardens; Switch House,
the new extension at the Tate Modern and Leighton House Museum, the former home
of English 19th century painter, Sir Frederic Leighton.