Sketches and London

Here’s more rough and ready background material from my project…

Studio - Faber Castell brush pen
Studio – Faber Castell brush pen
Character sketches - Faber Castell brush pen
Character sketches – Faber Castell brush pen
Trade notice - Faber Castell brush pen
Trade notice – Faber Castell brush pen

After meeting my brilliant friend Dr R for lunch today I followed her back to the Museum of London, and hung out in the Modern Life gallery for a while.  Scared a number of people by sketching in the great but very dark Pleasure Garden installation amongst the mannequins, couldn’t see much but an interesting exercise and some great costumes – not to mention the atmosphere:

MoLCostumesI’d been recommended the Rheinbeck Panorama of 1806 by one of the staff in the Southwark History Archive, can’t quite believe I’d not seen it before as it is absolutely fascinating.  I bought the smallest possible version in the shop and seemed to have spent half the evening annotating the landmarks and geography, using the fantastic Grub Street Project 1799 Horwood map as a reference.  Believe it or not it was so absorbing that I missed our online grocery shopping deadline, so I’ll be eating the tracing paper by next Tuesday:

Annotating Rheinbeck panorama

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