In my previous post I described the
South Wales Urban Sketch group’s monthly sketchcrawl, to the Cornerstone Café and
Gallery, to see the exhibition of the work of our friend Gary Yeung. I knew
they were good, but until you get close up to them you don’t realise just how
good they are. One of Gary’s pictures was sketched in Café Zest in the House of
Fraser in Cardiff. The sketch looked out of the window. Everything outside the
window was painted in line and wash, while everything inside was left as line
drawings. I thought it was extremely effective, and so I decided to take
inspiration from it.
This view is from the Gaucho Tower
Bridge steak house restaurant. Great view.
Looking at it, I think I’m on the
right lines and got close to what I was trying to do without quite scoring a
home run. I think that the line drawing foreground is still just a little
fussy, and could have done with simplifying. Likewise I think I should have
gone even bolder with the colours, since it just looks a little washed out. I
need to persevere.
