Maida Vale Tube line and wash

Maida Vale Tube line and wash
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Lovely drawing -and colour work

A terrific sketch David, very well done indeed.

Thanks very much!

Love the colours, David, especially the red tiles - you've got them just right... Interesting bit of history about the design of some of the first underground stations too...

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19/01/2017
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I decided to carry out my original plan to apply colour to the ink sketch I posted a few days ago. I've lived in Wales for over half my life, but I was born and grew up in London, and have had a life long love for the Underground. The first great architect to design London Underground stations was a man called Leslie Green, who was appropriately enough born in Maida Vale. He designed a large number of stations in the first decade of the 20th century, many of which still survive, and these are distinguished by their distinctive ox-blood red tiles.

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David Clark

I've always drawn, but I never took Art as a subject at school, and I've never had any lessons or tuition. I've always doodled in idle moments, and sketched for my own amusement, but I never had the guts to try painting before 2015. I joined the Afan Nedd artists' group that summer, finally plucking…

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