One Sketch #34) Chapter Arts Centre, Canton, Cardiff.

We of the Urban Sketchers South Wales group haven't had a group sketchcrawl yet this month. So I posted a couple of days ago to ask if anyone else in the group fancied meeting up today for a sketching session. Clara, the group organiser and I decided upon the Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff, which I'd never actually been to before.

Here's the two pages from my sketchbook:-

The top page shows a father and son I sketched, the counter, and my coffee cup and a box of sauce bottled on my table. Below there are three head and shoulders figures I sketched, along with part of the exterior of the centre. I was working in my sketchbook, which doesn't take watercolour very well, and I have to be honest, I just wasn't in a watercolour mood today.

So many Saturdays
Mine is sketching,
His is a cappuccino and Facebook.
Hers, cod, peas, chips
And staccato gossip.

One Sketch #33) Old London Underground District Line Train

You know, I'm not really sure what prompted the rush of nostalgia yesterday which prompted me to make this sketch of an old District Line London Underground Railway train. Whatever it was, this is partly how I remember London Underground trains - big, boxy red District line trains. I grew up in Ealing, at one end of the District Line, and I've always loved the Tube, representing, as it did, the thing that was going to take me into the centre of the city, where interesting things like the Science Museum and Natural History Museum awaited.

I can still feel it
The sheer excitement
Of rumbling through Hades.
Tartarus and Elysium
Looked much the same
As we snaked through
Plague Pits
And Roman ordure
And surface within yards
Of spacecraft
And dinosaurs.