Kingston Bridge

I had a plan to draw Kingston from the opposite side of the river for a long time, and now I had a chance to do it. The nature was a bit against me this time - a nice warm early-spring day turned into a gloomy and windy catastrophe when I started to paint, and the bridge turned a strange pale-green colour. In the end of the hour the weather became sunny again and I could finish the sketch with relative comfort. I'm looking forward to warm spring days already, down with this winter!

By the way, I just learned I wasn't very original with the choice of sketching location, as the Wikipedia article about Kingston Upon Thames is showing Kingston Bridge from about the same viewpoint!

Hotel near Elephant and Castle

Here’s the fresh update from the chilly London streets – a small crossroads near Elephant and Castle tube, I was sitting next to the entrance to one of Southbank’s University branches. It was some hotel in front of me with a quite queerly-looking cafe on the ground floor. It wasn’t anything like a cold weather today, but after an hour of sketching I noticed my teeth chattering with cold… will take a hot thermos with me next time!

Gloomy Clapham neighbourhood

The sky yesterday was particularly low, as it can be in a typical winter day in London, so I decided to include a portion of this sky in the sketch as well. It gives otherwise quite lively city scape that unique feeling of hopelessness, which you be come so accustomed you almost pay no attention to. I was dreaming of capturing that feeling for weeks now.

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Coronation Hall, Surbiton

Yesterday's Coronation Hall crowd in Surbiton was almost like any other Friday evening, but the decorations all around created a nice Christmas mood. While sketching, I noticed that they were even having fir-tree beads hanging from the lamps (and they're having very high ceilings in the place) - we were wondering how they did manage to climb so high.

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Bushy park deers, take two

There's two places quite near to our house where skeching deers is possible - Bushy park and Richmond park; often you even get two different breeds of deers wandering around, - although sometimes sketching them might be quite difficuilt, as they constantly turn around in search for their favorite food.

Of deers and men

Bushy Park was a colourful mixture of birds, deers and people with their dogs, - many freaked out because of the ice, which has probably formed during the night for the first time this Autumn. Swans had a particular trouble of getting out of the water through the ice and walking. I was sketching, Dina was taking pictures.

Gulls on poles

St.Paul's Cathedral Square

Strangers in the field

World cup pub

Bike sketch

Playing frisbee

Cars sketches

Honza sketchbook

Norbiton Station

Trafalgar square

Sketcrawl in Moscow

Christ the Savior Cathedral

Gribanal

Sketchcrawl in St. Petersburg

Komarova st., Moscow

Moscow yard