Entry to the landmark was free! Open House is a fantastic free event. The place I chose to visit, Battersea Power Station, was so popular it led to a two-hour wait with 18,000 other visitors that day to get in, but it was worth it. Good company meant the queuing time didn’t […]
Yearly archives: 2013
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Can I do more than top-up my Oystercard, gamble or buy a newspaper here? The interior of Herne Hill station is not beautiful, but it has previously supplied subjects to draw such as a public payphone. I sketched this as I was waiting for a train to go into central London, when […]
Black is the main colour of umbrellas. It has been a wet end to the summer. It was a Friday evening, I had finished work and I was making my way down to Oxford Circus station when it rained heavily. A lot of people walking carelessly with pointy umbrellas too […]
One passenger has solved the problem of where to hang a coat when using the Tube. The Tube carriage I sat in on Thursday evening was fairly empty. People stand out more and you get clear views of everyone during such times. I couldn’t miss the man who had brought […]
I have no use for other people’s rubbish. Waiting at the bus stop to get to work, I spotted a few abandoned pieces: A tatty mattress and slightly rusty bath tub. It took a while to draw this, nearly two weeks, as I drew much of this on my commutes, […]
A clear-desk policy doesn’t apply at home. I like to keep my desk tidy, both at home and work. What you don’t see in this drawing of my desk at home is the pile of unread books to the right; there is just the suggestion of the small pile of […]
Is there more to life than this? I hope so. I was on the Tube, on the way home from a brief date. What better way to take my mind away from my thoughts than to draw someone who looked absolutely exhausted. Was he a doctor? He got off at […]
Even the snails are at it. It was not nice to be stopped early in the morning, as I left the house for work, to be confronted by a mass of slime and shells. A pair of snails were intimately attached to each other, but I didn’t have time to […]
A hangover is a good excuse to eat well. iPhone drawing After a very heavy weekend of drinking, I needed something more than two pieces of fruit on Monday morning. I left behind my healthy eating habits and treated myself to a giant full English breakfast, all washed down with […]
Read the sign, love! The sign is there, but people don’t read. This passenger was very tired and was asleep for the whole time I was on the train home. Medium: Digital drawing on iPhone Date drawn: 12th August 2013
I’ve never thought make-up could be entertaining. On a commute during a Thursday morning rush hour I was entertained for a few minutes watching someone apply make-up. It’s a skill to be able to apply cosmetics like lipstick either during stops at station or, more impressively, while the train is […]
A bit of colour is welcome on the Tube. The bright colours people were wearing on my commute to work were a welcome sight to greet me on the first day back after a long relaxing weekend. This scene lasted from Brixton until Victoria four stops later, when some of […]
Chicken bones on the street. Is this just a London thing? It never ceases to surprise me when I come across greasy chicken bones on the streets of London. I saw some next to a bus stop near where I live. It took me a month and a half to draw […]
A selfie. Sometimes, the Tube can be underused, and I experience the lonely luxury of having a whole carriage to myself. Saturday afternoon on my way to catch a Reading-bound train from Paddington was one such occassion, there was no-one else to draw but myself. Medium: Digital drawing on iPhone Date […]
Londoners can be polite and friendly. The morning rush hour didn’t mean manners were forgotten, a pregnant woman was offered seats by several people, including myself. I do hear sad stories about heavily-pregnant women being left to stand on hot and long tube journeys, but not this time. London IS […]
The omnipresent celebrities and free newspapers. Either side of me I had the faces of celebrities staring back at me from free newspapers and magazines. I drew the sketch during the morning journey into work, and coloured and finished it on my way back home eight or so hours later. […]
An enjoyable exhibition, I recommend it. I enjoyed this exhibition, Lowry and the Painting of Modern Life, no matter what art critic Brian Sewell said in the Evening Standard. I spent quite a while in the galleries of Tate Britain, going back to certain paintings, and then to draw my own picture, […]
Thankfully, it was purely a visual, not an olfactory experience. During the summer, more body parts are on show, and people appear to lose the ability to dress modestly. Medium: Digital drawing on iPhone Date drawn: 13th July 2013
Was he a celebrity in disguise? Probably not. It was a sunny morning, but are sunglasses still necessary when using one of the deep lines of the underground network? He wasn’t blind. Medium: Digital drawing on iPhone Date drawn: 9th – 10th July 2013
iPhone drawing This store is always busy, or popular if you look at it another way. My receipt informed me: “Today you were served by Margaret”. Well, thanks, Margaret. For this drawing, I made a very rough sketch whilst in the queue. Much of the details came from a photograph […]