September 21, 2011 – 1:14 pm
Posting the sketchbook images from Beijing the other day made me realise it’s exactly four years since Caz and I made the trip from London to Singapore by train. We left on 17th September, arrived on 13th November, then spent 6 weeks in New Zealand. I thought it would be nice to post each page here on the same day four years later.
The text was intended just to jog my memory for writing it all up later, but of course I never did. Some of the drawings are truly awful but because I’m a completeness freak I’m going to scan them all.
Er, including the first one where the pencil got smudged into oblivion. No-one will ever know what we got up to in Minsk.
September 14, 2011 – 9:46 am
Talking about messy telegraph poles at Dungeness made me think of these biro sketches I did in a Beijing back street about four years ago. Every time I see one I get an ache to draw it. I dread to think why.
What this reminds me of more than anything is the sound of people hacking and gobbing in the street.
Also tagged banana, beijing, biro, china, chinese, drawing, dutch, eat, journal, monkey, patronising, stall, street, sweet potato, taoism, telegraph poles, telephone, travel, wires, writing
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September 5, 2011 – 7:50 am
While we were on the south coast I did some sketching at Dungeness. It’s got to be one of the best places in the UK to go with a pad and pencil. It’s got everything, including loads of messy telegraph poles, which I particularly love drawing.
Caz’s dad is responsible for the design of part of the nuclear power station, but I can’t remember which bit.
Also tagged beach, birds, car, caravan, drawing, dungeness, house, lighthouse, nuclear power station, painting, pencil, telegraph poles, watercolour
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October 23, 2007 – 3:01 pm
Also tagged banana, beijing, caz, china, chinese, diary, forbidden city, great wall, guilin, husband, kite, mike, monkey, mountains, pencil, reading, Ticket, train
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October 3, 2007 – 10:56 am
Also tagged barbecue, bus queue, caz, diary, forest, miracle, omsk, pencil, russia, russians, siberia, siberian, taiga, tank, tomsk, train, trans siberian railway, travel
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