This week's homework for Liz Steel's online course Sketching Now, which I'll be posting about next Saturday, was to sketch in a café.
My morning didn't go to plan, which those of you doing the course know,
is what happened to Liz too. The brief was to sit head on a café counter and to draw from the focal point out. My idea was to head to Tiptree Tearooms & Jam Factory mid-morning
for a cuppa and a scone.
However, I got engrossed in some material I
was preparing for a course I am giving and didn't get there until
midday. I got a head on view, of the side, which was not exciting as the
photo shows. To my left was the hostess desk, so I chose to draw that
instead.
I used my Super5 pen, which is filled with Noodlers
blueblack ink, and started at the desk, added the girl who flitted there
and back, then worked more details out from that point. I do like how
the sketch looked before I added watercolour.
Initially,
I had thought to have a scone with my tea, but as it was lunchtime I
ordered a salad instead. Whilst, waiting for it to arrive I added colour
to my sketch. (The finished scanned image is below).
Unfortunately, due to a huge queue of people waiting for tables at the
hostess desk, I scrapped my plan to sketch my food too, so ate quickly
and left.
I will be posting tomorrow as I've been nominated for the Around the World Blog Hop. Please come back and see what I post. In the meantime check out some of the others' posts such as Béliza's post here and Tina's here.
