One Sketch 310) (Tuesday 29th January) Exeter Cathedral

A house of worship
Laying heavy bonds
On the surly earth,

Not sure what that means either, still, when I posted the York Minster sketch a few days ago, one of my fellow group members asked if I'd ever tried sketching Exeter Cathedral. Have now.

One Sketch 309) (Monday 28th) Carry Akroyd

The fox is always near
Lurking in the long grass, tall grass
Short grass
The fox is always near.
So the hare listens
To the song of the wind
And the song of the scent
For the fox is always near
Yet the hare
Fills his lungs and his heart
And his tune fills the long grass,
Tall grass, short grass
For he has jumped over the moon
And the fox was nowhere near.

Sorry, don't know what that was all about. Yesterday's prompt from Sketching Every Day  was the artist Carry Akroyd. I really liked the original of this, which has the quality of a wood cut. Muggins here did it with ink pen on white paper. Would have been a lot easier to use some kind of white medium on black paper. D'oh.

One Sketch 308) Train sketch

A steam choo choo
As wonderful and almost mythical
As a dinosaur
And pretty much
As extinct

This was the prompt on Sketching Every Day today - train.  I think I've probably told you enough about my love of steam locos in the past so I won't go on about it. What I was pleased with this was the fact that I set myself the task of sketching it REALLY quickly before I went out to the car boot sale - and  I managed it without making a complete pig's ear of it.

One Sketch 307) York with the Minster

Grand Old Lady
Beams down benignly
One the city which gave her
Birth.

I like York. I first visited in 1977. I remember that was the year, because it was on the very same day that Red Rum won the Grand National for a record third time - there were notices up in a supermarket we went into. The purpose of our visit was to go to the National Railway Museum, and let's be honest, I still haven't outgrown my love of trains. Yet there's so much more in York. I was a bit disappointed that we didn't go into the Minster that day. In years to come I would visit the Minster, and because I was studying Old Norse literature I got to visit Jorvik Viking centre. Then there's the Castle Museum, and the Shambles . . . I could go on, but the simplest thing would be for you to go and see for yourself. Go on then, go. I'll wait until you get back.

One Sketch 306) Tintern Abbey

Dissolved, to satisfy
Old Henry's lust
- Yet still it stands,
While that fat git is dust.

Couldn't believe that the prompt today was Wales. Blimey, where did I start? Over the last 2 years I 've made literally hundreds of sketches of Wales. In the end I plumped for one of my favourite Welsh buildings, Tintern Abbey.

One Sketch 305) (Thursday 24th) Tikal Pyramid

I've always been the kind
To flip my lid
For a central American
Pyramid

Maybe you look at this and think Mexico. Well, close, but no cigar. This is actually found in Guatemala, the city of Tikal.

One Sketch 304) (Weds 23rd)Vietnamese Street

Dive in headfirst
To the sea of people

The rompt on Wednesday was Vietnam. Best I could come up with.