Right then, there’s urban sketches, and then there are other sketches. Putting it in basic terms, if you don’t make the sketch there and then on the spot, then it’s really not an urban sketch. I love urban sketching. However, with the best will in the world, who has 10 hours to sit in situ making a detailed sketch of a particular scene? So there is a marked difference in quality between my urban sketches, and other more detailed sketches. I’ll try to give you an example.
This is what you might get from me in terms of an urban
sketch, There’s nothing wrong with that either. It’s clearly recognisable as
Iron Bridge, but being a sketch, it is of necessity sketchy. Compare it with
this.
Now, let’s acknowledge that the first sketch was made on A5
paper, while the second drawing was made on A3. The sketch on A5 wouldn’t have
taken an hour, while the drawing on A3 took somewhere between 6 and 8 hours.
Yet I enjoyed it so much that I decided to make it the first of a series of
scenes of the UK which I particularly like, each carried out on A3 with the
same attention to detail. So here’s the rest of them so far
London – Looking from the South bank across the Thames at Tower Bridge and the City of London
Chester – Eastgate, including the 1897 Diamond Jubilee Clock Tower
Edinburgh – Looking across the city from Calton Hill
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