One Sketch #27) Patti Pavilion, Swansea

I like to go out sketching on a Saturday, and to day was no exception. What was an exception was that I was so tired because I've been having trouble sleeping, that I only had the stamina to make a couple of sketches. This is the better of the two: -

I sold a couple of sketch commissions last week, and so I spent some of the proceeds buying myself the sepia toned pens that I used on this sketch.

The Patti Pavilion is named after Dame Adelina Patti, an extremely popular opera singer at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. It was originally part of her estate in Craig y Nos Castle, and she donated it to Swansea in 1918. It's a venue for the performing arts, though that modern glass extension in the front is an Indian restaurant.

An opera singer called Patti
-Among her own time's glitterati-
Donated this venue
That's generous, but then you
Might have to admit she was batty.