If by any chance you read my last couple of blog posts, then you’ll know about my challenge to myself to make 100 urban sketches of Port Talbot, the town where I live. You’ll also know that I started a blog last week, in which to post all the sketches. I’d already made over 50. Well, last week I completed a mini challenge – a challenge within a challenge, if you like. By the 17th of last month I noticed that I’d managed to make 14 sketches in June, and suddenly it struck me that the idea of making 30 sketches in June, the equivalent for one each day of the month, was ‘on’. I actually managed 31, although they weren’t all sketches of Port Talbot. During last week I found that the hardest thing as regards the 100 sketches challenge was in fulfilling my aim of showing as many different aspects of the town as possible. My problem is falling back into default mode of just drawing the more striking or interesting buildings. That’s okay when there’s a story behind it – for example, I sketched a gym last week which had once been the Regal Cinema. That has a story behind it – which you can see if you check out the blog later. But the temptation is just to sketch a building for the sake of something to sketch, and that really isn’t what the challenge is supposed to be all about. So that’s why I was glad to make this sketch of the checkout in the local supermarket. Apart from having a little more life than some of my sketches, at least it’s saying something about the life we have here. Visit 100 Faces of Port Talbot - here is the URL http://100facesofporttalbot.blogspot.co.uk/