One Sketch 256) The Parthenon

The older, and more ruined
She gets
The more beautiful
She becomes.
For most of us
It works
the other way.

Another Sketching Every Day prompt. I love the Parthenon. Visited it for the first time in 1982 - love at first time.

One Sketch 255 (Wednesday 5th December) Students

Bored

Bored

Bored

Why does it take so long

Just to say

Welcome?

It works like this. Yesterday I attended a National Conference - mainly for those pupils about to apply for University Places. It involved a round trip of 5 hours. In all honesty I was flirting with disaster yesterday since there was precious little time for sketching all day. In the end I had to just dash off this very quick sketch of a couple of the students sitting in front of me in the Welcome session - which lasted about 20 minutes, which was about 19 minutes too long. 

One Sketch 254 (Tuesday 4th December) Cookie Monster

You can keep your Honey Monsters
Your teddies and your wookies
Here's the guy who works for me
The one who eats the COOOOKKKIIIEEESSS!

This was inspired by a Sketching Every Day prompt - cookies. I've said this before, I was never the world's biggest muppet/Sesame Street fan, but as a cookie fa myself I always had a soft spot for cookie monster - I even like his rather strngulated use of grammar.

One Sketch 253) (Monday 3rd December) The Liberty Bell

Ding dong

Ding dong

Ding dong

CRACK!

Like me, the Liberty Bell was made in London. So it's cracked. Get over it - you'll be looking none to fresh yourself when you're as old as this is.

One Sketch 252) The Little Tramp

While Chaplin remained at the helm
So often he would overwhelm
With slapstick, with cheek
Such laughter he'd wreak
He ended a knight of the realm

Not a lot more to say - always been a fan. His silent shorts were often showed on British TV when I was a kid. Very complex and interesting personality too - at one time banned from re-entering the USA. Ungrateful sods.

One Sketch 251) The Great Stoneface

The thing I would say about Buster
- apologising for my bluster
With each new decade
The films that he made
Just seem to take on greater lustre.

At a bit of a loss today, so decided to paint this quick monochrome portrait of a comedian I have a lot of time for, the great Buster Keaton.

One Sketch 250) Macau Skyline

The region that's known as Macau
Is all part of China by now.

Just following a prompt in Sketching Everyday.