Rome and New York

From the sketchbook, a guy in New York and below, a chap in Rome.
ZenBrush on iPad and ArtSet on iPad. Click to enlarge.

The Great Mash Heap Disaster

Today's effort from the forthcoming Memoirs

Paper53 on ipad. Click to enlarge.

The Grauniad Rang

The Grauniad Online rang to say my Map of Brazil was featured on their website. Ha ha.

Bad Thoughts

A new page from my continuing Memoirs.

Paper53 on iPad. Click to enlarge.

Nipplemoth

The newest page from my forthcoming Memoirs.

Paper53 on iPad. Click to enlarge.

Fourth Page Bottom

Just finished the bottom bit of Page 4 of Tales from The Brain Yard.
Gouache 9cm x 28cm. Click to enlarge.

Blair Bugged

A pleasant afternoon was spent listening to the Leveson Inquiry whilst drawing bugs onto an Admiralty chart of the approach to the Bosphorus.
Pen and ink with pencil on admiralty chart. Click to enlarge.

Walworth Road

I went down Walworth Road tonight.
Watercolour and ink 18cm x 12.5cm. Click to enlarge.

Hamster Jam

A loved one flew to Amsterdam today. By coincidence I saw these road markings (left) outside my studio that resemble the flag of Amsterdam (right).
Click to enlarge.

Colville Place

Tea with Trevor in Colville Place.
Watercolour 20cm x 19cm. Click to enlarge.

Istanbulscape

View over the Bosphorous from the balcony of a one star hotel in the red light district of Istanbul.
Pen and ink 15cm x 20.5cm. Click to enlarge.

Camper Van

I've always wanted to tour Europe by camper van.
Acrylic, watercolour and ink. 67cm x 24cm. Click to enlarge.

Proposal for Creative Vandalism

I wish someone would improve this road sign as shown in red. I'm not tall enough to reach.

It is said that the Elephant and Castle district of London is named after the Infanta of Castille inn which used to be there.

Pink Clouds

There were two little pink clouds. I had to paint them quickly before they floated away.
Watercolour 19cm x 14cm. Click to enlarge.

The Drawing Club of London

I went on my first outing with the London Drawing Group yesterday. The location was a rather soggy Trafalgar Square and I worked from the shelter of the National Gallery portico. Our intrepid leader (shown above) actually managed to fit Nelson's Column onto the page, which is no mean feat. I'm afraid my scrappy little sketch was quite awful, but to be fair it's actually very difficult to draw perched on one leg whilst balancing a paintbox, sketchbook and water bottle in one hand, all the while trying to ignore the tourists peeking over my shoulder. I preferred drawing the people rushing about in the square and their reflections on the wet pavement.
Over lunch we discussed the merits of vodka as a painting medium, the shape of future teabags, and whether scepticism about cycle helmets is justified.
Pencil and watercolour approc 13cm x 11cm. Click to enlarge.

The Phone Call

The two ends of a long narrow etching, the central section having been removed.
Etching with aquatint 21cm x 6cm. Click to enlarge.

Airbus

On the balcony. London NW6.
Watercolour A3 size. Click to enlarge.

Gloucestershire

I did think of changing this traditional rhyme to:

Norman Foster flew to Gloucester

In his private plane
He stalled in cloud
And crashed on Stroud
If only he'd taken the train.

But luckily, I didn't.

Pen and ink with watercolour 17cm x 25cm. Click to enlarge.

Strange Maps

Today I was delighted to receive my copy of Strange Maps by Frank Jacobs which has just been published. It features my New Simplified Map of London which first appeared on this blog.

War zones

Two Turkish women discussing how unsafe they feel in Peckham. More violent than Diyarbakır during the recent conflict, apparently.
Brushpens on Moleskine 14cm x 9cm. Click to enlarge.