Urban sketching today.

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Truly amazing Derek, love your art

Posted by Jenny Meadows on Sat 21 May 16:30:17

Thank you Jenny

Posted by Derek Snowdon on Sat 21 May 16:38:03

Brilliant Derek

Posted by Dennis Rounding on Sat 21 May 16:39:57

Cheers dennis, it was a good mornng, should have done more, People everywhere.

Posted by Derek Snowdon on Sat 21 May 16:46:31

I love these types of scenes.

Posted by Gudrun Ståhl Sharpley on Sat 21 May 17:13:39

Great work Derek. Docks are such interesting and exciting places. Pleased you had a good day.

Posted by Michael Mcmanus on Sat 21 May 18:04:47

Nice one Derek

Posted by Peter Loft on Sat 21 May 19:03:38

Sounds as though you had a fabulous day Derek! It would frighten me to death to have to do this kind of thing....I'm all admiration.

Posted by Fiona Phipps on Sat 21 May 19:43:04

You made a good job of it Derek.

Posted by John Graham Inkson on Sat 21 May 21:53:37

Love this Derek. It's full of interest and contrast.

Posted by Sarah Bottjer on Sun 22 May 07:42:26

Lets go Derek))

Posted by Juris Libeks on Sun 22 May 08:49:06

your enjoyment in sketching this scene comes across Derek excellent

Posted by David Harrison on Sun 22 May 10:24:19

Good lively sketch Derrick.

Posted by Stephen Slater on Sun 22 May 13:49:32

Really super, Derek. Your sketches are always superb - full of life, atmosphere, action and personality. Well done!

Posted by Seok Yam Chew on Sun 22 May 15:59:18

Cheers Gudrun, Michael, Peter, Fiona, John, Sarah, Juris, David, Stephen and Seok

Posted by Derek Snowdon on Sun 22 May 16:57:52

Sounds like the safest place to be was the Café! Like your sketching.

Posted by Adele Elgood on Tue 24 May 22:06:05

Thanks Adele It was warm there were plenty of seats, a table and at the time not too may people walking about and getting in the way.

Posted by Derek Snowdon on Wed 25 May 09:55:56

Hang on Studio Wall

21/05/2016

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Urban Sketchers of Southampton organised a day at the National Oceanography Ctr in Southampton Docks today. It was their open day - so many people, ideal for my style, were visiting. We had free reign within reason to wander, it was great. I deliberately chose a difficult aspect and view. The weather was dodgy and I didn't want to sketch a dockland scene, so in the cafe I ensconced myself with a view through the internal screen onto the indoor viewing area and the exterior windows, overlooking a huge car container ship. Lots of verticals and junctions in the structure + perspective, one of the sketchers sat out there and asked if he was in my way to which I answered perfect. With so many straight lines I used my brain, but didn't cheat and used a small book as a ruler with a 2B pencil, added colour and then a pen came in to tie it up. It was an excellent session and the chat and viewing was good fun and so very different.

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Derek Snowdon

Eleventyeight as my hashing pals called my new age recently, it's supposed to sound better. Trying to paint every day in acrylics using only expired credit/debit cards, and partially succeeding as they're only for me and not show these days.

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