A great day with a good group of people – the biggest sketchcrawl I have been on! Hot day – we spent the morning in the botanic gardens (my favourite place being the cactus garden) and trying to find an architectural subject. Lovely lunch passing sketchbooks around and general sketch chatting. In the afternoon...
CONTINUE READINGFrom Glasgow to Edinburgh day – my third Old Country Roses breakfast! Although only an hour drive I really hit the wall this day and felt too exhausted – even to sketch. I had been going flat out for 2 weeks at this point. I didn’t finish my sketch of Moray Place- now that is...
CONTINUE READINGDay 13: Excited today as I was going to meet a fellow urban sketcher correspondence – Wil Freeborn… but first…. I was rather distressed at my poor cups the night before so I was determined to do a decent one at breakfast A brisk walk into town – I left myself a bit...
CONTINUE READINGIn Glasgow – stayed in an amazing B&B which used Old Country Roses for breakfast – isn’t that amazing! Of course I just HAD to draw it! The B&B is called The Flower House. Sadly I didn’t get a chance to sketch it. It is hard as an architect to be in...
CONTINUE READINGIt is going to take me a long time to read this book if this is the rate I go at – but some of the concepts are just so interesting that I want to record them in my journal. I wish I could develop a quicker way to take visual notes when reading a...
CONTINUE READINGOk… Back to my travel journal. This day I made a detour and added to my driving hours in order to visit a Top 50 tearoom – not any tearoom.. This one is in the home of THE Earl Grey – the man behind the tea that I am obsessive about. I also finally...
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