A sketch done during an urban sketchers meeting, with a ballpoint pen, colour pencils, simple pencil and a bit of blue watercolour.
He couldn't swim
There was an Old Person of Ems,
Who casually fell in the Thames;
And when he was found,
They said he was drowned,
That unlucky Old Person of Ems.
E.Lear, 1846
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!
