Places

Drawing somewhere makes you look at it differently.

Most of the time when I visit somewhere, I take photographs. Far too many photographs. I come home with hundreds of them and, inevitably, hardly ever look at them again.
Sketching is different. Sitting in one place for an hour or so forces me to notice things I would normally walk straight past: the shape of a roof, an awkward chimney, the people coming and going, or the fact that the building I have chosen to draw is considerably more complicated than it appeared five minutes earlier.
This section will gradually become a collection of places I have drawn rather than simply places I have visited. Some will have been drawn sitting in front of them, but mainly they will be drawn from photographs on my IPad, with some deserving several attempts. I am not yet at the stage where I feel comfortable sketching plein air, drawing in public and being judged by the masses is just too much.
They won’t necessarily be the grandest or most famous places, just places we have I and may be along with my wife have visited and made me feel I want to get a sketchbook out and sketch it. I think this is the whole essence of why I want to sketch – to look more and record, in my own way, and, what draws (sorry!) me to a particular subject.