Sketchbook Britain 2022

Getting There

I started the journey with just a pencil and a sketchbook and drew a few pictures at the airport.

I wanted to be quicker on the draw and shading with graphite is time-consuming. So when I got to London, I bought a couple of thin-line markers and made some sketches of the hotel where I stayed, the first pub I went to for some fish'n'chips, and a street scene in .

London

Rachel came down with Covid so she and her mate Jo got me a room at the Wesley Hotel near Euston Station and I spent a couple of days cooling my heels. When I finally got to Berkhamstead, I showed Rachel my drawings and she suggested that I get some watercolors to give them a splash of color. I bought a cheap set of pans at the Berko art store and my world changed.

The smaller images are from my sketchbook, the larger images are of the 9x12 paintings over the next year from the photos I took along the way.