A free Saturday - well, free after my daughter picked up my grandson at 11:30 - is the best opportunity of the week to set off on a sketchcrawl. Preferably one of the South Wales Sketchers group monthly sketchcrawls, but otherwise a solo effort.
This month's group crawl was a fortnight ago, and so I set out on my own today. The objective was the beautiful Vale of Glamorgan, not far away from me by car. The engine was not even warmed up, and I was only 4 streets away when I saw a beautiful old 1950s Austin car parked up. This was too good to miss. I parked relatively close, whipped book and pens out of my bag, and got cracking.
I very rarely sketch inside my car. For one thing you have to sit in the passenger seat, and there's not a great deal of room for everything. Also, in a way it felt a little bit artificial. Not that I would have wanted to stand outside and make the sketch standing up by my car.
Did I actually get to the Vale of Glamorgan today after that? Watch this space.
