According to the website, one of the important principles of the "Urban Sketching" movement is that one draws from life. Here is one of my efforts in this format this month. I got a coffee and pastry from a new café on the Devon Street hill, right next to Kathikali for those who know New Plymouth, sat down at one of their outside tables and sketched:
Occasionally I have another shot at those simple portraits that Graham Kirk does so magnificently, and here is one from a photo in the paper of Gary McCormack:
And another from the same day's Daily News of Jim Hickey, who has announced his retirement from TVNZ:
And I have also done a few, on the odd wet day, from photos of our European trip in 2008. Here is one in the courtyard of the Louvre. I chose it because of the practice it gave me in drawing human figures. It was Sunday afternoon and we had just learned that the museum was closing in an hour or so, so had decided to come back the next morning:
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