We're so lucky to have Louise organising our locations for April - she's thinking of all the places we can't get to on normal Sundays, like the Zoo, which is too expensive (and busy) to sketch in. But they have webcams and Google Maps street view through the main paths, so it was an ideal spot for virtual sketching. Of course I would prefer to be out there doing real urban sketching, but beggars can't be chooser!
I have been somewhat dissatisfied with my sketches lately, so I'm trying new things. On this occasion, I applied a loose watercolour wash, then drew with a fountain pen on top. But when the penguins came out, I reverted to type. It was fun, though!
'Wait. Stop. Gulls. Good heart. I saw. Innocence. Girl in the monkeyhouse. Zoo. Lewd chimpanzee.'
'(Breathlessly.) Pelvic basin. Her artless blush unmanned me. (Overcome with emotion.) I left the precincts. '
'What in water did Bloom, waterlover, drawer of water, watercarrier, returning to the range, admire? Its universality:... its sterility in the circumpolar icecaps, arctic and antarctic: ...'
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