Kent meets Nevada
The flamingo. Las Vegas, or Margate?
Margate or Vegas?
Portraiture course: week 5
You know it’s going to go well when you turn up half an hour early for your course and it takes you 10 minutes to realise.
Off to an impressive start, I proceeded to spill an entire jar of thinners and an entire jar of coffee all over the floor.
As well as all that, I also managed to finish portrait of Finlay, so it all worked out in the end.
Going to avoid jars for the rest of the day though!
Sweaty and confused in Saigon
This time last year I was stumbling jetlagged and bleary-eyed around the frantic streets of Ho Chi Minh city.
Whilst I love to walk in a city, I’ll never forget the death-defying road crossings through motorbike stampedes to get from the hotel near Tao Dan Park to the highest view point in town, the Bitexco Financial Tower.
Street cleaners in Tao Dan Park
Thankfully no motorbikes in Tao Dan Park!
I opted for the most expensive coffee in town so that I could sketch that great view of the Saigon River through the lazy afternoon smog.
How much is that coffee in the window?
I go misty over you
The Bitexco Tower from the Harmony Hotel breakfast room
Inktober 2017: day four
Two quick urban sketches of the leaning tower of Patcham as sunset loomed.
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Inktober 2017: day three
The University of Brighton Cockcroft and Watts buildings
I carry my sketching kit with me everywhere, so I usually keep things minimal. For Inktober I’ve gone deluxe and invested in a sack of Faber-Castell Pitt pens, they are a dream to use on a Moleskine sketchbook, super smooth!
Today I lugged my kit up the hill behind Moulsecoomb station, where there is a great view over Brighton and Hove. I managed to just squeeze in the i360 viewing tower on the far right.
A sample of the Inktober kit
My usual kit
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Inktober 2017: day two
A lone pigeon on the inside looking out, at the Flying Coffee Bean (FCB), Brighton Station
Bonus sketch: A digger picks over the bones of the University of Brighton Circus Street library
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Inktober 2017: day one
This year I’m doing Inktober for the first time, so expect a drawing every day, throughout October, only in ink.
I will be following urban sketcher rules and part of the time I will be taking a trip to Las Vegas and touring the US national parks, so I should have some interesting subjects!
Follow me on instagram (cmoorelifeuk – note the ‘uk’, the other is an imposter!) or Facebook. I plan to upload the full results to my blog.
Here’s day one. Adelaide Crescent in Hove, UK.
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Colour swatch
How much is that doggie in the window? Adelaide Crescent. (Sorry pooch lovers, there isn’t really a dog in this picture, no matter how hard you look)
It’s February and it feels like it’s been dark forever! To combat all those winter blues, I decided to add a bit of Naples yellow and Permanent Rose to my palette.
These chaps must have been feeling the same, as they completely removed their windows to let in more light.
Seems a bit drastic, particularly with snow predicted. Still, those Regency enthusiasts know what they are doing.
If you are feeling a bit ‘grayscale’, I recommend taking a walk through Hanover. It has more colour than a Dulux swatch.
