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Ye Olde Shoppe
Read more: Ye Olde ShoppeTo be honest I’m not really sure quite how old this shop is. It is certainly built in an older style than the two concrete blocks that hem it in, and it probably helps that I’ve drawn it slightly wonky, giving it that twisted look that most really old buildings have! As a final coup…
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Free Notes
Read more: Free NotesWhilst listening to jazz I have often wondered how one might draw this type of music, if indeed such a question even really makes any sense. I have seen many pictures showing musicians playing their instruments, sometimes with musical notes floating through the air. Sometimes instead these musical pictures are just of typical jazz instruments,…
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Lily in the Valley
Read more: Lily in the ValleyA doodle in the proper sense of the word, which started out in my head as another art deco panel, but which has turned out to be rather more of a cartoon. Still fun to draw though! Of course, this flower is not to be confused with “Lily of the valley”, which is another plant…
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Lantern
Read more: LanternThese platform lanterns are to be found at many temples in Japan, particularly Buddhist temples. I understand that they are full of symbolism, but that aside they are also visually very interesting, plenty of detail, sturdy yet graceful. Of course the temptation is always to feature the temple itself in any picture, but here I…
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View of London …
Read more: View of London …… from Reigate Hill. Hence quite a distant view, in which only the tallest buildings in the city feature. Some would say that London looks better from this distance, although I wouldn’t agree – there are some very nice sights right in the centre of town. However, I rather liked the way that the horizon…
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Pub Sign
Read more: Pub SignThese lanterns hang outside many Japanese restaurants and izakaya (居酒屋) – a term often translated as “Japanese pub”. It took a little while for me to realise that these lanterns promised some kind of refreshment close by, but once the penny had dropped they were very useful when looking for something to eat or drink.…
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Dark Sky
Read more: Dark SkyThe synoptic gospel accounts of the day of Jesus’ crucifixion tell us that “from noon until three in the afternoon, darkness came over all the land”. Ignoring issues about whether this darkness was figurative or real (and if the later then how it was caused), this celestial gloom clearly adds to the drama of the…
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Sakura (桜)
Read more: Sakura (桜)Cherry blossom is appearing all over Japan at the moment, and I’m lucky enough to be seeing it happen. Admittedly most of the blossom I have seen so far has been set against leaden grey skys, so this picture is something of a concept piece – how I imagine the trees would look in front…
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Biker Rabbit
Read more: Biker RabbitI was just wondering why it is that rabbits always seem to appear out of top hats? 🙂
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City Lights
Read more: City LightsThe City contains a lot of wrought iron, some of it genuinely Victorian and some just trying to look as if it might be that old! This light is situated in a very new part of London, which I have just discovered is called Bazalgette Embankment. Now Joseph Bazalgette was a Victorian engineer who built…
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Backlit Crocuses
Read more: Backlit Crocuses… or should it be “backlit croci”? The interweb seems to be divided on the correct plural of crocus. However, such grammatical issues are a mere side show to the main event here – which is that last week during seemingly continuous rainfall the sun actually made a brief appearance to light up the spring…
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Le Grand Café
Read more: Le Grand CaféThis magnificent building stands in the middle of Brussels beside the old Bourse, and I guess once kept the financiers of the city fed and watered as they traded their way to success or ruin in the industrial expansion of nineteenth century Belgium. Fortunately the hostelry didn’t seem to be suffering any lack of customers…
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