Sunday 16 October 2016

Picturing Ramsgate

Another four old coloured postcards, not perhaps the best bit of copying, sorry about that





Only one said anything on the back, the one with the tram and around 1907 seems about right to me.


One of those days when I didn’t get much done today.

I did go to Enoteca café in Ramsgate with the intention of doing something to my sketch but didn’t seem to have what it takes.


I did a couple of quick sketches instead, experimenting with the shapes and perspective I suppose.


This one where I just couldn’t seem to fit the background into the window, but I did seem to getting somewhere towards painting the curved white ceiling.


After that I turned round and had a go looking up the tunnel as it were, with pen and wash.

Painting and drawing interiors is a tricky business and unusually shaped ones well the camera lies and so does the brush.  





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