One Sketch 364) Jo the Crossing Sweeper from "Bleak House"

Sometimes we should just
Thank God we live now
Not then.

I mentioned in the previous post that I haven't liked any of the recent Sketching Every Day prompts - well, not so much not liked, but just not felt inspired enough. SO this morning I returned to a couple of old favourites - Victorian engravings, and Charles Dickens. "Bleak House", which doesn't seem to enjoy the same popularity as Copperfield and Expectations, is actually a masterpiece as well.

One Sketch 363) Saturday 23rd March - Toucan

When it comes down to sketching , well who can
Copy what I have sketched? You can!
So pick up your pen
Again and again
How many can play this game? Two can!

It's a pun, geddit! In this last run along the home straight of my year long challenge I find that in just these last few days I don't fancy any of the prompts on Sketching Every Day. SO I decided on a whacky kind of bird, and, should you pardon the pun again, the toucan really fits the bill, or vice versa. This was one of my quickest sketches for ages - didn't take more than about 10 minutes. What's that you say, looks like it? Bloody cheek!

One Sketch 362) Friday 22nd March - HMS Victory in Dry Dock

Sleep sound, oak warrior
Your day is done
But your twilight
Is magnificent

Not sure why I made a sketch of HMS Victory in dry dock in Portsmouth Harbour. Well, you gotta sketch something, I suppose.

One Sketch 361) Things that go bump in the night

I think that everybody
Except the most stupid foolies
Would rather be caught by the ghosties
To being caught by the ghoulies.

Now that's just childish isn't it? This is a response to the Sketching every Day prompt - things that go bump in the night. It's a copy of the illustration on an old postcard, illustrating the old saying - Ghosties and Ghoulies and Long legged beasties and things that go bump in the night.

One Sketch 360) Weds 20th March - Burghers of Calais

In History, it seems, they have gone down
They sacrificed themselves to save their town.

These are Rodin's sculpture of the Burghers of Calais, which resides by the Houses of Parliament. The burghers of Calais were the leading citizens who surrendered themselves to King Edward III of England, so that he would spare the town of Calais from destruction.

One Sketch 359 (Tuesday 19th March) Wolf

Don't expect me
To domesticate
Any time soon
Keep your pampered pooches
While I howl
At the moon.

No idea what prompted this, but suddenly had a feeling that I wanted to sketch a wolf howling, so here it is.

One Sketch 358) Monday 18th - Selfie

I'm not an oil painting

That is true

But decades worth of teaching

Would do the same to you

What it says on the tin - Monday's prompt on Sketching Every Day was a self portrait.