Daily Sketch: Baglan Church

I've not been happy with what I've done with pen and ink, so I bought a very fine fineliner pen today, and made this very simple and quick sketch of Baglan Church.

This a good step closer to what I'm trying to achieve - it's really starting to look like what I understand an urban sketch to be

Daily Sketches: Man of Steel and Train Station

This is another sculpture by Sebastien Boyesen.

It's called "Man of Steel" and it too is a tribute to the men who made the steel industry which made the town. I don't know if it comes across from my sketch, but what I do think about this statue is that it's quite reminiscent of Soviet Expressionist state art. This is  our square chinned proletarian hero, exhorting his workmates on to greater and greater efforts. Here is another sketch which incorporates the statue: -

The building on the right is Port Talbot's new train station. It isn't exactly ugly, but my God, there's nothing about it to lift the soul.

Daily Sketch: Mortal Coil Statue Port Talbot: Pen and Ink watercolour

This is a statue by Sebastien Boyesen in Port Talbot called Mortal Coil.

I really like it, and it says a lot about the relationship between Port Talbot as a town, and the steel industry. Due to the very muted nature of the watercolour I used on the last sketch, I gave it a bit more oomph with this one.

Daily Sketch: Pizza Hut Building Port Talbot

This is another stage in the development of my urban sketching. I've been reading up on urban sketching, and also looking at examples on line, and I've seen that many people use a watercolour wash - or several watercolour washes to add character and depth to the original pen and ink sketch. So this is what I've tried to do. The scanner does change the character of the colours a little bit  the sky, for example does have some blue in it on the original page, while there is a slight violet tinge to the road.

Daily Sketch: Hero the Cat

Hero the Cat

I actually made this one a couple of days ago, but didn't post it in the blog, only int eh diary. So you might not have seen this one yet. I don't know that I'm going to be able to make a sketch today, so I thought I'd put this one up just to keep things going.

Daily Sketch: Mumbles Tram

Alright - confession time. I have been away all day and literally have not had the opportunity to make a sketch.

So this is the second of two sketches that I made yesterday (Saturday 20th)  in another part of the museum in Swansea. This is an old Mumbles tram, I would guess from the first couple of decades of the 20th century.

Daily Sketch: Trevithick's locomotive replica

Trevithick's original locomotive - full size replica in Swansea Waterfront Museum
20/8/16