Pavilion Garden, Brighton
Horsing around
I prepared for sketching at the Royal Windsor Horse Show this weekend with Monika Zagrobelna’s really helpful blog post on how to draw horses.
Capturing these gorgeous beauties from life is a very different matter, but I fixed my eye on the prize and let the pen ride the page.
The ones that look like big dogs are Shetland Ponies. The others I blame on the champagne.
The tea tent was a gentle trot in comparison!
It was all so exciting that I forgot to sketch the queen!
The festival starts here!
A gorgeous day for the start of the Brighton festival children’s parade which kicked off this weekend. Featured on the left are Patcham Junior School with Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe. Many headed to the beach afterwards – melted and exhausted!
Doing it Edwardian style
The ultimate Sunday lunch at the Walpole Bay Hotel. Butter curls and Black Forest Gateaux, followed by a tipsy sketch!
A word in your shell-like
Who and when built Margate’s Shell Grotto remains a mystery, but they must have been bonkers! I almost lost the plot just trying to sketch it.
The giant shell lady in the cafe is the pearl in the oyster.
Vintage amusement
Dreamland in Margate is considered to be the oldest amusement park in the UK.
Sketching, beer and chips. What more could you need?
Hello dolly!
Porcelain dolls were used in the 1920’s to help train nurses in the treatment of tuberculosis at the Royal Seabathing Hospital, Margate.
Nowadays they are used to give you nightmares in the Margate museum.
Kent meets Nevada
The flamingo. Las Vegas, or Margate?
Margate or Vegas?
War horses in the dark
Trying to draw a horse is tough at the best of times, but sketching in the dark at the superb National Theatre production of War horse at the Brighton Centre is on another level.
The staggering puppet horses are brought to life by three very talented operators. I confess I ‘cheated’ on the final sketch and did it from a photo at home.
Outsiders
I am standing in church, singing along to a Taylor Swift song which I’ve never heard before. It’s OK though, because the karaoke style lyrics are on the big screen and a choir is leading us through it.
This was my first time at the Sunday Assembly Brighton, a monthly secular church on the border of Brighton and Hove.
The church is packed. This month the theme is ‘outsiders’.
One of the speakers, David, told a moving story about his experience as a volunteer host for the charity Sussex Nightstop. Afterwards we sang Teenage dirtbag.
The atmosphere was great and by the time we were singing starman I was really quite into it. Only in Brighton & Hove!
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